Economics Contracts in England

Economics
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 464 594 607
Rank change year-on-year +130 +13 -84
Contract jobs citing Economics 84 74 173
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.15% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.16% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 45 127
10th Percentile £375 £363 £191
25th Percentile £504 £503 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £850 £800 £763
90th Percentile - £850 £800
UK median daily rate £800 £638 £700
% change year-on-year +25.49% -8.93% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 21
10th Percentile - £20.47 -
25th Percentile - £25.17 £14.25
Median hourly rate £10.42 £44.00 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -76.32% +125.41% -25.25%
75th Percentile £21.86 £51.75 £46.00
90th Percentile £26.50 £70.13 £51.75
UK median hourly rate £22.68 £44.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year -48.45% +125.41% -25.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,205 45,779 64,338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.51% 90.27% 90.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,157 32,091 45,636
10th Percentile £300 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,232 1,623 1,778
10th Percentile £12.87 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.62 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.16
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

Economics
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Economics in England

Economics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Economics in England

Economics
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Economics in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Economics in England

Economics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Economics in England

Economics
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Economics in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Economics in England

Economics
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Economics within the England region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
London +124 68 £800 +6.67% 139
North of England +34 3 £531 +3.66% 14
North West - 3 £531 - 5
West Midlands +28 2 £475 - 8
Midlands +24 2 £475 -9.52% 12
East of England +12 2 - - 7
South East -5 1 £212 -43.47% 16
South West - 1 - - 6
Economics
UK

Economics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (2.38%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.19%) Apache
2 1 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (7.14%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (5.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.95%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Loan IQ
2 2 (2.38%) SAP MDG
3 1 (1.19%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.19%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.19%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.19%) SAP HCM
3 1 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (14.29%) npm
2 4 (4.76%) Azure
3 3 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.38%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.38%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.19%) AWS
5 1 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.19%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.19%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.14%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (21.43%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.38%) Hadoop
2 2 (2.38%) Power BI
2 2 (2.38%) Tableau
3 1 (1.19%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.19%) Metadata
3 1 (1.19%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 29 (34.52%) JIRA
2 12 (14.29%) webpack
3 11 (13.10%) TeamCity
4 9 (10.71%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.38%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.19%) Git
6 1 (1.19%) MLflow
General
1 62 (73.81%) Social Skills
2 57 (67.86%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (34.52%) Front Office
4 18 (21.43%) Finance
5 13 (15.48%) Banking
6 12 (14.29%) Investment Banking
7 6 (7.14%) Law
8 5 (5.95%) Legal
8 5 (5.95%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (5.95%) Public Sector
9 4 (4.76%) Advertising
9 4 (4.76%) Financial Institution
9 4 (4.76%) Marketing
10 2 (2.38%) Digital Economy
10 2 (2.38%) German Language
10 2 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (2.38%) Publishing
10 2 (2.38%) Spanish Language
11 1 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (30.95%) Developer
2 18 (21.43%) UI Developer
3 17 (20.24%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 14 (16.67%) Analyst
5 13 (15.48%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 12 (14.29%) Angular Developer
6 12 (14.29%) React Developer
7 8 (9.52%) Real Time Developer
8 6 (7.14%) Applications Developer
8 6 (7.14%) Technical Engineer
8 6 (7.14%) Web Applications Developer
8 6 (7.14%) Web UI Developer
9 5 (5.95%) C# Developer
9 5 (5.95%) Project Manager
10 4 (4.76%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
10 4 (4.76%) Front Office Developer
10 4 (4.76%) Full Stack Developer
10 4 (4.76%) Full-Stack C# Developer
11 3 (3.57%) Econometrician
11 3 (3.57%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (34.52%) React
2 17 (20.24%) Reactive Extensions
2 17 (20.24%) Redux
3 12 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 12 (14.29%) REST
3 12 (14.29%) RxJS
3 12 (14.29%) WebSockets
4 11 (13.10%) CSS
4 11 (13.10%) WPF
5 6 (7.14%) .NET
6 2 (2.38%) Java Concurrency
6 2 (2.38%) Kafka
7 1 (1.19%) ADO
7 1 (1.19%) JSON
7 1 (1.19%) Matplotlib
7 1 (1.19%) Pandas
7 1 (1.19%) SailPoint
7 1 (1.19%) Seaborn
7 1 (1.19%) Tkinter
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.86%) Fixed Income
2 6 (7.14%) Derivative
2 6 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 6 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (7.14%) Wiki
3 2 (2.38%) Credit Risk
3 2 (2.38%) Life Science
3 2 (2.38%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.38%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.19%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.19%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.19%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.19%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.19%) Social Media
4 1 (1.19%) VLE
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (47.62%) Agile
2 33 (39.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 29 (34.52%) Design Patterns
4 28 (33.33%) Electronic Trading
5 23 (27.38%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (23.81%) Front End Development
7 19 (22.62%) Roadmaps
8 16 (19.05%) Computer Science
9 15 (17.86%) Statistics
10 13 (15.48%) TDD
11 12 (14.29%) Mathematics
11 12 (14.29%) Software Engineering
11 12 (14.29%) Web Application Development
12 11 (13.10%) Continuous Integration
12 11 (13.10%) Data Analysis
12 11 (13.10%) DevOps
12 11 (13.10%) Project Management
12 11 (13.10%) Refactoring
13 10 (11.90%) Full Stack Development
14 9 (10.71%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 31 (36.90%) SQL
2 29 (34.52%) TypeScript
3 20 (23.81%) C#
4 12 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 9 (10.71%) Python
6 8 (9.52%) Java
7 6 (7.14%) C++
7 6 (7.14%) VB.NET
7 6 (7.14%) VBA
8 3 (3.57%) R
9 2 (2.38%) Haskell
9 2 (2.38%) Scala
10 1 (1.19%) VB
Qualifications
1 43 (51.19%) Degree
2 17 (20.24%) Master's Degree
3 8 (9.52%) PhD
4 7 (8.33%) Numerate Degree
5 6 (7.14%) Postgraduate
6 4 (4.76%) APMP
6 4 (4.76%) Security Cleared
7 3 (3.57%) SC Cleared
8 2 (2.38%) CBAP
9 1 (1.19%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.19%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.95%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.76%) PMO
3 3 (3.57%) QA
4 1 (1.19%) GDPR
Vendors
1 7 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.76%) SAP
3 2 (2.38%) Oracle
3 2 (2.38%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.19%) Google
4 1 (1.19%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.19%) TikTok