R Contracts in the UK excluding London

R
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 334 337 335
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 -57
Contract jobs citing R 58 110 175
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.48% 0.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.18% 1.72% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 60 118
10th Percentile £323 £212 £259
25th Percentile £357 £347 £346
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £510 £483
Median % change year-on-year -21.57% +5.70% +1.58%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £549
90th Percentile £605 £678 £616
UK median daily rate £541 £567 £525
% change year-on-year -4.68% +8.06% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 15 9
10th Percentile £18.05 £21.15 £18.87
25th Percentile £20.12 £22.16 -
Median hourly rate £20.24 £65.00 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -68.87% +232.99% -24.92%
75th Percentile £21.39 £75.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £49.62 - £52.11
UK median hourly rate £24.05 £68.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -64.63% +81.33% +42.86%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,915 6,402 8,752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.75% 28.08% 28.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,296 4,475 6,127
10th Percentile £319 £350 £333
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% - +16.01%
75th Percentile £584 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £678 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 429 327 325
10th Percentile £37.55 £26.20 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £31.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.85
Median % change year-on-year - +22.91% +24.02%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.00 £68.45
UK median hourly rate £62.25 £62.50 £51.25
% change year-on-year -0.40% +21.95% +17.14%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing R as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for R in the UK excluding London

R
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing R in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for R in the UK excluding London

R
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing R in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for R in the UK excluding London

R
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing R in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for R in the UK excluding London

R
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing R in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for R in the UK excluding London

R
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing R within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 May 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
Midlands +36 19 £450 -18.18% 44
South East -8 14 £350 -36.36% 52
West Midlands +23 10 £550 +47.06% 28
East Midlands +19 9 £363 -39.58% 16
East of England 0 9 £388 +38.39% 22
South West 0 5 £525 +13.51% 20
North of England -8 5 £550 -15.38% 52
Wales - 5 £412 - 10
North West -13 3 £513 -21.15% 30
Scotland +26 1 £221 -63.17% 17
Yorkshire +11 1 £550 - 15
North East - 1 - - 7
R
UK

R
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 14 (24.14%) SAS
2 4 (6.90%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.72%) Apache
3 1 (1.72%) Confluence
3 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (18.97%) SPSS
2 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.45%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.72%) Stata
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.34%) AWS
2 3 (5.17%) Azure
2 3 (5.17%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.72%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (1.72%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (1.72%) Amazon MSK
3 1 (1.72%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (1.72%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.72%) GitHub
3 1 (1.72%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.97%) Tableau
2 8 (13.79%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (12.07%) Qlik Sense
4 6 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (10.34%) Hadoop
5 5 (8.62%) Impala
6 4 (6.90%) Data Mining
7 3 (5.17%) Big Data
7 3 (5.17%) Looker
7 3 (5.17%) Power BI
8 2 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (3.45%) Data Lake
8 2 (3.45%) Relational Database
8 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.72%) MS Access
9 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.72%) QlikView
9 1 (1.72%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (1.72%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Git
2 2 (3.45%) RStudio
3 1 (1.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.72%) JIRA
3 1 (1.72%) PyCharm
3 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (32.76%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (24.14%) Finance
2 14 (24.14%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.07%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.62%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.17%) Banking
5 3 (5.17%) Marketing
5 3 (5.17%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (3.45%) Police
7 1 (1.72%) Advertising
7 1 (1.72%) Back Office
7 1 (1.72%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.72%) Humanities
7 1 (1.72%) Local Government
7 1 (1.72%) Military
7 1 (1.72%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 21 (36.21%) Analyst
2 17 (29.31%) Data Analyst
3 8 (13.79%) Data Scientist
3 8 (13.79%) Senior
3 8 (13.79%) SIEM Engineer
4 5 (8.62%) Data Engineer
4 5 (8.62%) Developer
4 5 (8.62%) SQL Analyst
4 5 (8.62%) SQL Data Analyst
5 3 (5.17%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
5 3 (5.17%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (5.17%) Senior Data Analyst
6 2 (3.45%) Analytics Manager
6 2 (3.45%) AWS Data Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) Business Data Analyst
6 2 (3.45%) Machine Learning Analyst
6 2 (3.45%) Senior Developer
7 1 (1.72%) Business Intelligence Manager
7 1 (1.72%) Strategy Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.79%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (12.07%) D3.js
3 3 (5.17%) PySpark
4 2 (3.45%) .NET
4 2 (3.45%) .NET Framework
4 2 (3.45%) Kafka
5 1 (1.72%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.72%) Anaconda
5 1 (1.72%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.72%) BREW
5 1 (1.72%) Google JAX
5 1 (1.72%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.72%) React
5 1 (1.72%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.72%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.79%) Linux Command Line
1 8 (13.79%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (10.34%) Algorithms
3 5 (8.62%) Data Structures
4 4 (6.90%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.72%) CRISPR
5 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.72%) Derivative
5 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.72%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.72%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.72%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.79%) Linux
1 8 (13.79%) Ubuntu
1 8 (13.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (37.93%) Analytics
2 21 (36.21%) Data Modelling
3 20 (34.48%) Computer Science
4 19 (32.76%) Visualisation
5 18 (31.03%) Business Intelligence
6 17 (29.31%) Data Science
7 16 (27.59%) Data Analysis
8 14 (24.14%) Data Analytics
8 14 (24.14%) Statistics
9 13 (22.41%) Mathematics
10 12 (20.69%) Data Pipeline
10 12 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (17.24%) Agile
12 9 (15.52%) DataOps
12 9 (15.52%) Decision-Making
12 9 (15.52%) Machine Learning
13 8 (13.79%) Infrastructure Monitoring
13 8 (13.79%) RBAC
13 8 (13.79%) SIEM
14 7 (12.07%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 48 (82.76%) Python
2 30 (51.72%) SQL
3 11 (18.97%) Java
4 4 (6.90%) Scala
5 2 (3.45%) C++
6 1 (1.72%) Bash
6 1 (1.72%) C
6 1 (1.72%) C#
6 1 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.72%) PHP
6 1 (1.72%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 19 (32.76%) Degree
2 12 (20.69%) Security Cleared
3 11 (18.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (17.24%) SC Cleared
5 6 (10.34%) Master's Degree
6 4 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (5.17%) PhD
8 2 (3.45%) DV Cleared
8 2 (3.45%) IBM Certification
8 2 (3.45%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.72%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (1.72%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.90%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.45%) GDPR
2 2 (3.45%) QA
3 1 (1.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.72%) CDISC
3 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.72%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (13.79%) Active Directory
1 8 (13.79%) iptables
Systems Management
1 8 (13.79%) Kibana
1 8 (13.79%) logstash
2 1 (1.72%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (10.34%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.45%) Adobe
2 2 (3.45%) IBM
3 1 (1.72%) Anaplan
3 1 (1.72%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.72%) Databricks
3 1 (1.72%) Google
3 1 (1.72%) Oracle
3 1 (1.72%) Sage