Economics Contracts

Economics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Economics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Economics over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 505 604 667
Rank change year-on-year +99 +63 -65
Contract jobs citing Economics 79 93 181
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.17% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.19% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 56 131
10th Percentile £316 £431 £363
25th Percentile £425 £500 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -10.71% +12.00%
75th Percentile £828 £800 £800
90th Percentile £850 £850 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £325
% change year-on-year -1.04% +47.69% -20.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 21
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 £41.75
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 falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +68 71 £550 -12.00% 162
London +71 54 £650 -13.33% 107
Work from Home +120 27 £800 +56.10% 155
UK excluding London +19 14 £475 -1.04% 59
North West +16 4 £538 +11.98% 7
North of England +15 4 £538 +9.69% 14
South East +2 3 £224 -40.40% 17
South West - 3 £538 - 6
Wales +22 2 - - 1
East of England +6 2 - - 8
Midlands +16 1 £475 -9.52% 7
Northern Ireland - 1 £325 -
West Midlands - 1 £475 - 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 4 (5.06%) SAS
2 3 (3.80%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.53%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (7.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (7.59%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (3.80%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.53%) Stata
4 1 (1.27%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (2.53%) SAP MDG
2 1 (1.27%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (1.27%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (1.27%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.27%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.27%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (1.27%) SAP HCM
2 1 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.27%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.13%) Azure
2 7 (8.86%) Power Platform
3 5 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.80%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (3.80%) npm
4 3 (3.80%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.27%) AWS
5 1 (1.27%) GCP
5 1 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.27%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.27%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.59%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.39%) Relational Database
2 7 (8.86%) Power BI
2 7 (8.86%) Tableau
3 2 (2.53%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.27%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.27%) Looker
4 1 (1.27%) Metadata
4 1 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.27%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 13 (16.46%) JIRA
2 9 (11.39%) Cypress.io
3 3 (3.80%) TeamCity
3 3 (3.80%) webpack
4 2 (2.53%) Jenkins
General
1 48 (60.76%) Social Skills
2 46 (58.23%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (29.11%) Finance
4 12 (15.19%) Front Office
5 8 (10.13%) Marketing
6 7 (8.86%) Banking
6 7 (8.86%) Law
6 7 (8.86%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (6.33%) Advertising
7 5 (6.33%) Legal
8 4 (5.06%) German Language
8 4 (5.06%) Spanish Language
9 3 (3.80%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (3.80%) Manufacturing
10 2 (2.53%) Digital Economy
10 2 (2.53%) Investment Banking
10 2 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (2.53%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (2.53%) Publishing
11 1 (1.27%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 19 (24.05%) Analyst
2 16 (20.25%) Developer
3 12 (15.19%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 9 (11.39%) React Developer
5 8 (10.13%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 6 (7.59%) Data Analyst
6 6 (7.59%) Technical Engineer
6 6 (7.59%) UI Developer
7 4 (5.06%) Architect
7 4 (5.06%) C# Developer
7 4 (5.06%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
7 4 (5.06%) Data Scientist
7 4 (5.06%) Front Office Developer
7 4 (5.06%) Full Stack Developer
7 4 (5.06%) Full-Stack C# Developer
8 3 (3.80%) Angular Developer
8 3 (3.80%) Domain Architect
8 3 (3.80%) Lead
8 3 (3.80%) Lead Enterprise Architect
8 3 (3.80%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (15.19%) React
2 9 (11.39%) Reactive Extensions
2 9 (11.39%) Redux
3 6 (7.59%) .NET
4 3 (3.80%) ADO
4 3 (3.80%) AngularJS
4 3 (3.80%) CSS
4 3 (3.80%) REST
4 3 (3.80%) RxJS
4 3 (3.80%) WebSockets
4 3 (3.80%) WPF
5 2 (2.53%) Java Concurrency
5 2 (2.53%) Kafka
5 2 (2.53%) Tkinter
6 1 (1.27%) JSON
6 1 (1.27%) NumPy
6 1 (1.27%) Pandas
6 1 (1.27%) SailPoint
6 1 (1.27%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.59%) Fixed Income
1 6 (7.59%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (5.06%) Credit Risk
3 3 (3.80%) Life Science
3 3 (3.80%) Wiki
4 2 (2.53%) Derivative
4 2 (2.53%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.53%) Market Risk
4 2 (2.53%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.53%) Social Media
5 1 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.27%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.27%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.27%) PMI
5 1 (1.27%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.27%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.27%) VLE
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (32.91%) Statistics
2 25 (31.65%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (30.38%) Agile
4 21 (26.58%) Analytics
4 21 (26.58%) Computer Science
5 17 (21.52%) Data Analysis
6 16 (20.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (20.25%) Mathematics
6 16 (20.25%) Roadmaps
7 13 (16.46%) Data Science
8 12 (15.19%) Design Patterns
8 12 (15.19%) Electronic Trading
9 11 (13.92%) Visualisation
10 9 (11.39%) Actionable Insight
10 9 (11.39%) Data Visualisation
10 9 (11.39%) DevOps
10 9 (11.39%) Project Management
10 9 (11.39%) Refactoring
11 8 (10.13%) Business Intelligence
11 8 (10.13%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 32 (40.51%) SQL
2 20 (25.32%) Python
3 12 (15.19%) C#
3 12 (15.19%) TypeScript
4 8 (10.13%) C++
5 6 (7.59%) R
5 6 (7.59%) VB.NET
5 6 (7.59%) VBA
6 3 (3.80%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.53%) Haskell
7 2 (2.53%) Java
7 2 (2.53%) Scala
8 1 (1.27%) VB
Qualifications
1 55 (69.62%) Degree
2 26 (32.91%) Master's Degree
3 13 (16.46%) PhD
4 7 (8.86%) Postgraduate
5 5 (6.33%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (3.80%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.80%) Security Cleared
7 2 (2.53%) CBAP
7 2 (2.53%) MBA
8 1 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.27%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.27%) PMP
8 1 (1.27%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.53%) QA
3 1 (1.27%) GDPR
Vendors
1 6 (7.59%) SAP
2 4 (5.06%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.80%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.53%) Adobe
4 2 (2.53%) Alteryx
4 2 (2.53%) CA
4 2 (2.53%) Google
4 2 (2.53%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.27%) Advent
5 1 (1.27%) Brandwatch
5 1 (1.27%) Oracle
5 1 (1.27%) TikTok