Economics Contracts

Economics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Economics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Economics 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 496 593 655
Rank change year-on-year +97 +62 -52
Contract jobs citing Economics 83 91 186
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.16% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.18% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 55 133
10th Percentile £331 £428 £330
25th Percentile £469 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £850 £800 £800
90th Percentile - £850 £823
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £141
% change year-on-year -1.04% +241.64% -65.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 22
10th Percentile - £21.98 -
25th Percentile £10.42 £24.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.87 £47.50 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -56.07% +143.34% -25.25%
75th Percentile £25.65 £52.75 £41.00
90th Percentile £26.50 £73.60 £51.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.24 £20.47 £14.50
% change year-on-year -1.15% +41.17% +26.09%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,816 50,571 79,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 89.70% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,638 35,025 55,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £348
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,671 1,865
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Economics.

Daily rate trend for Economics in the UK

Economics
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Economics over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Economics in the UK

Economics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Economics.

Hourly rate trend for Economics in the UK

Economics
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Economics over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Economics in the UK

Economics
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Economics within the UK 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
England +84 74 £638 -12.07% 208
London +94 57 £710 -5.33% 133
Work from Home +116 28 £756 +44.00% 154
UK excluding London +39 14 £475 -1.04% 77
North of England +27 4 £538 +9.69% 20
North West +17 4 £538 +11.98% 12
South East -3 3 £224 -40.40% 19
South West - 3 £538 - 3
Wales +19 2 - - 1
East of England +9 2 - - 14
Midlands +24 1 £475 -9.52% 11
West Midlands - 1 £475 - 6
Northern Ireland - 1 £325 - 1

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 4 (4.82%) SAS
2 3 (3.61%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.41%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (8.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (8.43%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (3.61%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.41%) Stata
4 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.20%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (2.41%) SAP MDG
2 1 (1.20%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (1.20%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (1.20%) Loan IQ
2 1 (1.20%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.20%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.20%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (1.20%) SAP HCM
2 1 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.20%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 8 (9.64%) Azure
2 7 (8.43%) Power Platform
3 5 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (6.02%) npm
4 3 (3.61%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (3.61%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.20%) AWS
5 1 (1.20%) GCP
5 1 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.20%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.20%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.23%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.05%) Relational Database
2 7 (8.43%) Power BI
2 7 (8.43%) Tableau
3 2 (2.41%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.20%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.20%) Looker
4 1 (1.20%) Metadata
4 1 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.20%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 16 (19.28%) JIRA
2 9 (10.84%) Cypress.io
3 5 (6.02%) webpack
4 4 (4.82%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.41%) Jenkins
General
1 52 (62.65%) Social Skills
2 49 (59.04%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (28.92%) Finance
4 15 (18.07%) Front Office
5 9 (10.84%) Banking
6 8 (9.64%) Marketing
6 8 (9.64%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (8.43%) Law
8 5 (6.02%) Advertising
8 5 (6.02%) Legal
9 4 (4.82%) German Language
9 4 (4.82%) Investment Banking
9 4 (4.82%) Spanish Language
10 3 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (3.61%) Manufacturing
11 2 (2.41%) Digital Economy
11 2 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (2.41%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (2.41%) Publishing
12 1 (1.20%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 19 (22.89%) Analyst
2 18 (21.69%) Developer
3 13 (15.66%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 9 (10.84%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 9 (10.84%) React Developer
5 8 (9.64%) UI Developer
6 7 (8.43%) Technical Engineer
7 6 (7.23%) Data Analyst
8 5 (6.02%) Angular Developer
9 4 (4.82%) C# Developer
9 4 (4.82%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
9 4 (4.82%) Data Scientist
9 4 (4.82%) Front Office Developer
9 4 (4.82%) Full Stack Developer
9 4 (4.82%) Full-Stack C# Developer
10 3 (3.61%) Architect
10 3 (3.61%) Econometrician
10 3 (3.61%) Real Time Developer
10 3 (3.61%) Senior
10 3 (3.61%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.07%) React
2 10 (12.05%) Reactive Extensions
2 10 (12.05%) Redux
3 7 (8.43%) .NET
4 5 (6.02%) AngularJS
4 5 (6.02%) REST
4 5 (6.02%) RxJS
4 5 (6.02%) WebSockets
5 4 (4.82%) CSS
5 4 (4.82%) WPF
6 3 (3.61%) ADO
7 2 (2.41%) Java Concurrency
7 2 (2.41%) Kafka
7 2 (2.41%) Tkinter
8 1 (1.20%) JSON
8 1 (1.20%) NumPy
8 1 (1.20%) Pandas
8 1 (1.20%) SailPoint
8 1 (1.20%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.64%) Fixed Income
2 7 (8.43%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (4.82%) Credit Risk
3 4 (4.82%) Wiki
4 3 (3.61%) Derivative
4 3 (3.61%) Life Science
4 3 (3.61%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.41%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.41%) Market Risk
5 2 (2.41%) Social Media
6 1 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.20%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.20%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.20%) PMI
6 1 (1.20%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.20%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.20%) VLE
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (32.53%) Agile
1 27 (32.53%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (31.33%) Statistics
3 22 (26.51%) Computer Science
4 20 (24.10%) Analytics
5 19 (22.89%) Continuous Improvement
6 18 (21.69%) Data Analysis
6 18 (21.69%) Roadmaps
7 17 (20.48%) Mathematics
8 15 (18.07%) Design Patterns
8 15 (18.07%) Electronic Trading
9 13 (15.66%) Data Science
10 11 (13.25%) Visualisation
11 10 (12.05%) DevOps
11 10 (12.05%) Project Management
12 9 (10.84%) Actionable Insight
12 9 (10.84%) Data Visualisation
12 9 (10.84%) Refactoring
13 8 (9.64%) Front End Development
13 8 (9.64%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 34 (40.96%) SQL
2 20 (24.10%) Python
3 15 (18.07%) TypeScript
4 14 (16.87%) C#
5 9 (10.84%) C++
6 7 (8.43%) VB.NET
6 7 (8.43%) VBA
7 6 (7.23%) R
8 5 (6.02%) JavaScript
9 3 (3.61%) Java
10 2 (2.41%) Haskell
10 2 (2.41%) Scala
11 1 (1.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 57 (68.67%) Degree
2 26 (31.33%) Master's Degree
3 13 (15.66%) PhD
4 7 (8.43%) Postgraduate
5 6 (7.23%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (3.61%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.61%) Security Cleared
7 2 (2.41%) CBAP
7 2 (2.41%) MBA
8 1 (1.20%) APMP
8 1 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.20%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.20%) PMP
8 1 (1.20%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.02%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.41%) QA
3 1 (1.20%) GDPR
3 1 (1.20%) PMO
Vendors
1 6 (7.23%) SAP
2 5 (6.02%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.61%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.41%) Adobe
4 2 (2.41%) Alteryx
4 2 (2.41%) CA
4 2 (2.41%) Google
4 2 (2.41%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.20%) Advent
5 1 (1.20%) Brandwatch
5 1 (1.20%) Oracle
5 1 (1.20%) TikTok