R Contracts in the North West

R
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for R skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited R over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 113 166
Rank change year-on-year -19 +53 -29
Contract jobs citing R 3 38 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.11% 1.25% 0.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.45% 4.32% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 21 7
10th Percentile £431 £400 £242
25th Percentile £459 £463 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £650 £315
Median % change year-on-year -21.15% +106.35% -49.60%
75th Percentile £559 £675 £431
90th Percentile £584 £700 £560
England median daily rate £500 £571 £525
% change year-on-year -12.43% +8.76% -

All Programming Languages
North West

R is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 662 879 1,431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 24.17% 28.85% 35.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 656 1,092
10th Percentile £325 £326 £315
25th Percentile £400 £413 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £542 £588 £588
90th Percentile £614 £650 £663
England median daily rate £543 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% +2.36% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 17 39
10th Percentile £38.08 £25.22 £14.25
25th Percentile £41.25 £37.75 £21.64
Median hourly rate £48.43 £46.18 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.87% -12.04% +75.00%
75th Percentile £71.87 £56.40 £75.00
90th Percentile £79.90 £65.85 £77.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year - +20.77% +17.61%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing R as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for R in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing R in the North West.

Daily rate trend for R in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing R in the North West over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for R in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing R in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for R in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing R within the North West region over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +10 2 £425 -13.92% 6
Lancashire - 1 £600 -
R
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (33.33%) Azkaban
2 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) Spark SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) PyCharm
1 1 (33.33%) RStudio
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Business Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Reduction
2 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Security
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Fintech
2 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Anaplan