Economics Contracts in London

Economics
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 335 383
Rank change year-on-year +27 +48 +104
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Economics 51 48 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.38% 0.30% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.33% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 33 57
10th Percentile £375 £413 £480
25th Percentile £650 £481 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £600 £750
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £850 £700 £825
90th Percentile £863 £735 -
England median daily rate £750 £539 £625
% change year-on-year +39.21% -13.80% -13.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £28.65
25th Percentile - - £35.25
Median hourly rate - - £47.50
75th Percentile - - £68.13
90th Percentile - - £79.75
England median hourly rate - £21.50 £46.25
% change year-on-year - -53.51% +30.28%

All Process and 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,355 14,441 20,669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.42% 88.95% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,228 9,953 15,029
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 193 223
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.25 £18.03
25th Percentile £24.77 £22.00 £22.63
Median hourly rate £30.75 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.16% -12.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £49.69 £53.75 £64.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £71.25 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +54.55%

Economics
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Economics 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 28 August 2025.

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
DemandTrendContract 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 28 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +1 3 £287 -39.58% 53
Economics
England

Economics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.96%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.96%) Luigi
1 1 (1.96%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.96%) EViews
3 1 (1.96%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 18 (35.29%) Azure
2 17 (33.33%) AWS
3 15 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (3.92%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.92%) WhatsApp
5 1 (1.96%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (1.96%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (1.96%) Apigee
5 1 (1.96%) IaaS
5 1 (1.96%) PaaS
5 1 (1.96%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (27.45%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (25.49%) Redis
3 3 (5.88%) Tableau
4 2 (3.92%) Power BI
5 1 (1.96%) AllegroGraph
5 1 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.96%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.96%) ArangoDB
5 1 (1.96%) Azkaban
5 1 (1.96%) Big Data
5 1 (1.96%) CrateDB
5 1 (1.96%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.96%) MemSQL
5 1 (1.96%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.96%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.96%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 6 (11.76%) JIRA
2 1 (1.96%) ERwin
2 1 (1.96%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.96%) Maven
General
1 41 (80.39%) Social Skills
2 31 (60.78%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (47.06%) Finance
4 15 (29.41%) Banking
4 15 (29.41%) Investment Banking
5 13 (25.49%) Front Office
6 5 (9.80%) Advertising
6 5 (9.80%) Marketing
7 4 (7.84%) Financial Institution
8 3 (5.88%) Social Science
9 2 (3.92%) Billing
9 2 (3.92%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.96%) Electronics
10 1 (1.96%) Legal
10 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.96%) Retail
10 1 (1.96%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (43.14%) Developer
2 13 (25.49%) Java Developer
2 13 (25.49%) Lead
2 13 (25.49%) Lead Developer
2 13 (25.49%) Lead Java Developer
3 9 (17.65%) Analyst
4 8 (15.69%) Business Analyst
4 8 (15.69%) C# Developer
5 6 (11.76%) .NET Developer
5 6 (11.76%) C# .NET Developer
5 6 (11.76%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
5 6 (11.76%) Electronic Trading Developer
5 6 (11.76%) Real Time Developer
6 5 (9.80%) Front Office Business Analyst
7 4 (7.84%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
7 4 (7.84%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
8 3 (5.88%) Commodities Business Analyst
8 3 (5.88%) Data Scientist
9 2 (3.92%) Consultant
9 2 (3.92%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (27.45%) Kafka
2 13 (25.49%) ActiveMQ
3 8 (15.69%) .NET
4 6 (11.76%) AngularJS
4 6 (11.76%) Reactive Extensions
5 2 (3.92%) WPF
6 1 (1.96%) Hugging Face
6 1 (1.96%) NumPy
6 1 (1.96%) Pandas
6 1 (1.96%) scikit-learn
6 1 (1.96%) Statsmodels
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (7.84%) Fixed Income
3 3 (5.88%) Derivative
4 2 (3.92%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.92%) CMDB
4 2 (3.92%) Market Risk
4 2 (3.92%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.96%) iPad
5 1 (1.96%) Life Science
5 1 (1.96%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.96%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.96%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (47.06%) Agile
1 24 (47.06%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (45.10%) Mathematics
3 20 (39.22%) Computer Science
4 16 (31.37%) DevOps
5 15 (29.41%) Architectural Design
5 15 (29.41%) BDD
5 15 (29.41%) TDD
6 13 (25.49%) Electronic Trading
7 10 (19.61%) Decision-Making
8 9 (17.65%) Product Management
8 9 (17.65%) Statistics
9 8 (15.69%) Analytics
9 8 (15.69%) Business Analysis
9 8 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (15.69%) Quantitative Research
10 7 (13.73%) Manual Testing
10 7 (13.73%) Regression Testing
10 7 (13.73%) Test Automation
10 7 (13.73%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (45.10%) Java
2 12 (23.53%) Python
2 12 (23.53%) SQL
3 8 (15.69%) C#
4 6 (11.76%) JavaScript
4 6 (11.76%) TypeScript
5 3 (5.88%) R
6 2 (3.92%) Haskell
7 1 (1.96%) Bash
7 1 (1.96%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.96%) Scala
Qualifications
1 43 (84.31%) Degree
2 17 (33.33%) Numerate Degree
3 4 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (7.84%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.92%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.92%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.92%) Basel III
2 2 (3.92%) COBIT
3 1 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.96%) Docker
1 1 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (3.92%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.96%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (11.76%) Oracle
2 4 (7.84%) ION Trading
3 3 (5.88%) Facebook
4 2 (3.92%) Calypso
4 2 (3.92%) IBM
4 2 (3.92%) Instagram
4 2 (3.92%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.92%) Murex
4 2 (3.92%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.96%) Apple
5 1 (1.96%) Foundry
5 1 (1.96%) Google
5 1 (1.96%) Informatica
5 1 (1.96%) Palantir
5 1 (1.96%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.96%) SAP
5 1 (1.96%) SnapLogic
5 1 (1.96%) Zoomdata