Economics Contract Job Trends in London

Economics
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Economics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 313 316
Rank change year-on-year -36 +3 +158
Contract jobs citing Economics 32 53 80
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.22% 0.36% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.40% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 36 62
10th Percentile £350 £407 £501
25th Percentile £400 £450 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £625 £800
Median % change year-on-year -25.12% -21.88% +6.67%
75th Percentile £734 £705 £850
90th Percentile £810 £829 -
England median daily rate £400 £544 £800
% change year-on-year -26.44% -32.03% +16.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £20.41 £60.35 £12.99
25th Percentile £23.61 £60.50 £16.86
Median hourly rate £29.51 £61.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.02% +223.68% -69.11%
75th Percentile £35.97 £63.00 £32.44
90th Percentile £39.51 £63.45 £56.63
England median hourly rate £29.51 £61.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -52.02% +223.68% -55.56%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,193 13,182 16,214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.50% 90.18% 89.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,713 8,439 11,605
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £756 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 163 243
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.13 £17.15
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.13 £54.50 £58.38
90th Percentile £69.12 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +26.76%

Economics
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Economics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Economics job vacancy trend in London

Economics
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Economics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Economics

Economics
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Economics in London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Economics in London

Economics
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Economics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Economics

Economics
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Economics in London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Economics in London

Economics
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Economics within the London region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
Central London -7 2 £375 -21.05% 19
Economics
England

Economics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.13%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.13%) Confluence
1 1 (3.13%) Jupyter
1 1 (3.13%) Luigi
Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (3.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.00%) AWS
2 6 (18.75%) Azure
2 6 (18.75%) SaaS
3 2 (6.25%) Amazon Bedrock
3 2 (6.25%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (6.25%) Apigee
3 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.13%) GCP
4 1 (3.13%) IaaS
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.13%) PaaS
4 1 (3.13%) Serverless
4 1 (3.13%) Snowflake
4 1 (3.13%) WeChat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (6.25%) Power BI
2 2 (6.25%) Redis
2 2 (6.25%) Tableau
3 1 (3.13%) AllegroGraph
3 1 (3.13%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (3.13%) ArangoDB
3 1 (3.13%) Azkaban
3 1 (3.13%) Big Data
3 1 (3.13%) CrateDB
3 1 (3.13%) Essbase
3 1 (3.13%) MemSQL
3 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.13%) Neo4j
3 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.13%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
1 2 (6.25%) JIRA
1 2 (6.25%) Maven
2 1 (3.13%) ERwin
2 1 (3.13%) Git
2 1 (3.13%) RStudio
General
1 22 (68.75%) Finance
2 13 (40.63%) Social Skills
3 10 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (28.13%) Banking
5 4 (12.50%) Financial Institution
5 4 (12.50%) Front Office
6 3 (9.38%) Investment Banking
6 3 (9.38%) Marketing
7 2 (6.25%) Back Office
7 2 (6.25%) Manufacturing
7 2 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (3.13%) Digital Health
8 1 (3.13%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (3.13%) Health Technology
8 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (3.13%) Legal
8 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
8 1 (3.13%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 8 (25.00%) Consultant
2 6 (18.75%) Analyst
2 6 (18.75%) Developer
3 5 (15.63%) Pricing Consultant
4 3 (9.38%) Lead
5 2 (6.25%) Business Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Excel Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Excel VBA Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Java Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Lead Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Lead Java Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Quantitative Developer
5 2 (6.25%) VBA Developer
5 2 (6.25%) VBA Quantitative Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Applications Manager
6 1 (3.13%) Murex Consultant
6 1 (3.13%) Operations Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) Product Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) Product Manager
6 1 (3.13%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) Kafka
2 2 (6.25%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (6.25%) Hugging Face
3 1 (3.13%) .NET
3 1 (3.13%) CSS
3 1 (3.13%) FastAPI
3 1 (3.13%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (3.13%) Flask
3 1 (3.13%) Murex MxML
3 1 (3.13%) React
3 1 (3.13%) Reactive Extensions
3 1 (3.13%) Redux
3 1 (3.13%) REST
3 1 (3.13%) Web Services
3 1 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (12.50%) Derivative
2 4 (12.50%) Fixed Income
2 4 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 3 (9.38%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (9.38%) Equities
4 2 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.13%) Biopharmaceutical
5 1 (3.13%) CMDB
5 1 (3.13%) Digital Media
5 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.13%) Market Risk
5 1 (3.13%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.13%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (40.63%) Mathematics
2 10 (31.25%) Computer Science
3 9 (28.13%) Agile
3 9 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (25.00%) Analytics
5 7 (21.88%) AI
5 7 (21.88%) Decision-Making
5 7 (21.88%) Statistics
6 6 (18.75%) Risk Management
6 6 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
7 4 (12.50%) Data Science
7 4 (12.50%) DevOps
7 4 (12.50%) Roadmaps
7 4 (12.50%) Validation
8 3 (9.38%) Budgeting
8 3 (9.38%) Budgeting and Forecasting
8 3 (9.38%) FinOps
8 3 (9.38%) Machine Learning
8 3 (9.38%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 12 (37.50%) SQL
2 11 (34.38%) Python
3 3 (9.38%) C++
3 3 (9.38%) Java
4 2 (6.25%) R
4 2 (6.25%) VBA
5 1 (3.13%) Bash
5 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.13%) Scala
5 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (84.38%) Degree
2 5 (15.63%) Master's Degree
3 4 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (12.50%) Numerate Degree
4 2 (6.25%) CFA
5 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.13%) CBAP
5 1 (3.13%) MBA
5 1 (3.13%) Postgraduate
5 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (3.13%) Basel III
1 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.13%) EMIR
1 1 (3.13%) GDPR
1 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.13%) Progress Chef
1 1 (3.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (6.25%) Bloomberg
1 2 (6.25%) Google
1 2 (6.25%) Murex
2 1 (3.13%) Calypso
2 1 (3.13%) Charles River
2 1 (3.13%) Citrix
2 1 (3.13%) Databricks
2 1 (3.13%) IBM
2 1 (3.13%) Informatica
2 1 (3.13%) Instagram
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.13%) Refinitiv
2 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
2 1 (3.13%) SnapLogic
2 1 (3.13%) Zoomdata