Economics Jobs

Economics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Economics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Economics over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 572 492 614
Rank change year-on-year -80 +122 +66
Permanent jobs citing Economics 373 540 845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.57% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.60% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 167 90 229
10th Percentile £25,000 £32,662 £30,294
25th Percentile £29,750 £40,313 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,343 £52,446 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.45% -4.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,625 £67,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £92,250 £80,825 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £53,519 £45,000
% change year-on-year -34.60% +18.93% -5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Economics is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Economics
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Economics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Economics in the UK

Economics
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Economics.

Salary trend for Economics in the UK

Economics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Economics over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Economics in the UK

Economics
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Economics within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -75 343 £45,001 -14.20% 196
London +90 186 £60,556 +21.11% 124
UK excluding London -145 175 £35,000 -34.60% 72
Work from Home +39 115 £45,001 -18.18% 150
North of England +21 46 £55,000 +58.27% 19
Midlands -42 38 £26,000 -52.73% 10
South East -41 31 £46,293 -11.64% 19
North West -4 25 £55,000 +4.76% 10
West Midlands -28 24 £25,000 -54.55% 5
East of England -65 22 £29,000 -61.33% 12
South West -19 20 £63,750 +19.12% 4
East Midlands -33 14 £30,500 - 5
Yorkshire +44 12 £51,528 +124.03% 8
North East -3 9 £56,075 +80.89% 1
Wales +11 7 £30,000 - 1
Scotland -72 6 - - 7
Channel Islands - 5 - -

Economics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 56 (15.01%) SAS
2 15 (4.02%) CMS
3 13 (3.49%) Drupal
4 3 (0.80%) Apache
4 3 (0.80%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.80%) SharePoint
Applications
1 85 (22.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (15.55%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (5.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (4.29%) Spreadsheet
5 9 (2.41%) SPSS
6 8 (2.14%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.27%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 8 (2.14%) Primavera
2 4 (1.07%) Lawson
3 3 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.27%) Data Workbench
4 1 (0.27%) Endur
4 1 (0.27%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.27%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.27%) SAP FSCM
4 1 (0.27%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.27%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.27%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 51 (13.67%) Power Platform
2 23 (6.17%) AWS
3 17 (4.56%) SaaS
4 12 (3.22%) Azure
5 11 (2.95%) GitHub
6 6 (1.61%) GCP
7 3 (0.80%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (0.80%) Entra ID
7 3 (0.80%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (0.54%) Google Analytics
8 2 (0.54%) OneDrive
8 2 (0.54%) WeChat
9 1 (0.27%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.27%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.27%) Intacct
9 1 (0.27%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.27%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.27%) SAP Fieldglass
9 1 (0.27%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.27%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.61%) DNS
2 5 (1.34%) 5G
2 5 (1.34%) Broadband
3 3 (0.80%) SD-WAN
3 3 (0.80%) WAN
4 1 (0.27%) Firewall
4 1 (0.27%) Internet
4 1 (0.27%) LAN
4 1 (0.27%) SAN
4 1 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.27%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (16.09%) Tableau
2 50 (13.40%) Power BI
3 28 (7.51%) Data Mining
4 13 (3.49%) Big Data
5 10 (2.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (1.88%) Amazon QuickSight
6 7 (1.88%) SQL Server
6 7 (1.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (1.61%) GIS
8 5 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (1.07%) Essbase
9 4 (1.07%) MS Access
9 4 (1.07%) PowerPivot
9 4 (1.07%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.80%) Looker
10 3 (0.80%) QlikView
11 2 (0.54%) Data Mart
11 2 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.54%) DTS
11 2 (0.54%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (3.49%) Git
General
1 244 (65.42%) Finance
2 176 (47.18%) Analytical Skills
3 159 (42.63%) Social Skills
4 83 (22.25%) Legal
5 61 (16.35%) Banking
6 50 (13.40%) Publishing
7 36 (9.65%) Marketing
8 26 (6.97%) Back Office
9 24 (6.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (5.09%) Organisational Skills
11 16 (4.29%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (4.02%) Local Government
13 14 (3.75%) Retail
14 13 (3.49%) Manufacturing
15 12 (3.22%) Presentation Skills
16 11 (2.95%) Documentation Skills
16 11 (2.95%) Social Science
17 10 (2.68%) Billing
17 10 (2.68%) French Language
18 9 (2.41%) Law
Job Titles
1 149 (39.95%) Analyst
2 109 (29.22%) Senior
3 42 (11.26%) Senior Analyst
4 40 (10.72%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 29 (7.77%) Data Analyst
5 29 (7.77%) Financial Analyst
5 29 (7.77%) Lead
6 25 (6.70%) Trainee
7 23 (6.17%) Trainee Analyst
8 19 (5.09%) Consultant
8 19 (5.09%) Senior Financial Analyst
9 16 (4.29%) Analytics Manager
9 16 (4.29%) Business Analyst
9 16 (4.29%) Commercial Analyst
10 14 (3.75%) Product Manager
11 13 (3.49%) Developer
12 12 (3.22%) Drupal Developer
12 12 (3.22%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 11 (2.95%) Graduate
13 11 (2.95%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.22%) Web Services
2 8 (2.14%) EDI
3 4 (1.07%) Django
3 4 (1.07%) Tidyverse
4 2 (0.54%) Middleware
5 1 (0.27%) Flask
5 1 (0.27%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (0.27%) Pandas
5 1 (0.27%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 56 (15.01%) Onboarding
2 47 (12.60%) Credit Risk
3 21 (5.63%) Algorithms
4 20 (5.36%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (5.09%) Data Structures
6 17 (4.56%) Management Information System
7 14 (3.75%) Product Ownership
8 13 (3.49%) Social Media
9 12 (3.22%) Smartcard
10 11 (2.95%) Fixed Income
11 10 (2.68%) Hedge funds
12 8 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (1.88%) Renewable Energy
13 7 (1.88%) Virtual Team
14 6 (1.61%) Data Centre
15 5 (1.34%) Client/Server
15 5 (1.34%) Cloud Native
15 5 (1.34%) Culture of Ownership
15 5 (1.34%) Mobile App
15 5 (1.34%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.88%) Windows
2 5 (1.34%) Windows Vista
3 3 (0.80%) Linux
4 1 (0.27%) Android
4 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.27%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (38.34%) Mathematics
2 121 (32.44%) Analytics
3 120 (32.17%) Data Analysis
4 95 (25.47%) Problem-Solving
5 86 (23.06%) Statistics
6 77 (20.64%) Business Intelligence
7 73 (19.57%) Risk Management
8 56 (15.01%) Business Strategy
9 55 (14.75%) Roadmaps
10 53 (14.21%) Computer Science
11 52 (13.94%) Project Management
12 49 (13.14%) Decision-Making
13 47 (12.60%) Data Analytics
14 44 (11.80%) Stress Testing
15 43 (11.53%) Customer Experience
15 43 (11.53%) Visualisation
16 41 (10.99%) Benchmarking
17 40 (10.72%) Budget Responsibility
18 39 (10.46%) Agile
18 39 (10.46%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 93 (24.93%) SQL
2 76 (20.38%) Python
3 25 (6.70%) R
4 12 (3.22%) VBA
5 11 (2.95%) PHP
6 1 (0.27%) C
6 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.27%) Go
6 1 (0.27%) Java
6 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.27%) VB
Qualifications
1 258 (69.17%) Degree
2 45 (12.06%) Master's Degree
3 29 (7.77%) Numerate Degree
4 21 (5.63%) Security Cleared
5 19 (5.09%) MBA
6 14 (3.75%) DV Cleared
7 11 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (2.41%) ACCA
8 9 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (2.14%) APMG
9 8 (2.14%) DBS Check
10 7 (1.88%) CFA
10 7 (1.88%) PhD
10 7 (1.88%) Postgraduate
11 5 (1.34%) AWS Certification
12 4 (1.07%) CIMA
12 4 (1.07%) PMI Certification
12 4 (1.07%) SC Cleared
13 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.27%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (11.53%) IFRS
1 43 (11.53%) IFRS 9
2 14 (3.75%) QA
3 6 (1.61%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (0.80%) CRD IV
5 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.54%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.54%) GDPR
6 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (2.95%) Docker
2 2 (0.54%) Firmware
3 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (0.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 66 (17.69%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.95%) SAP
3 10 (2.68%) Cadence
3 10 (2.68%) Oracle
4 8 (2.14%) Sun
5 7 (1.88%) CA
5 7 (1.88%) Charles River
5 7 (1.88%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.34%) Virgin Media
7 4 (1.07%) Cognos
7 4 (1.07%) JD Edwards
8 3 (0.80%) Cisco
8 3 (0.80%) Databricks
8 3 (0.80%) F5
8 3 (0.80%) MicroStrategy
8 3 (0.80%) VMware
9 2 (0.54%) Google
9 2 (0.54%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.27%) Ivanti
10 1 (0.27%) OpenLink