Economics Contracts in the UK excluding London

Economics
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 375 425
Rank change year-on-year +43 +50 +42
Contract jobs citing Economics 11 11 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.086% 0.054% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.095% 0.064% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 13
10th Percentile £291 £242 £115
25th Percentile £306 £287 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £400 £480
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -16.67% +241.64%
75th Percentile £436 £503 £500
90th Percentile £477 £531 £548
UK median daily rate £750 £712 £650
% change year-on-year +5.34% +9.54% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
Median hourly rate £19.91 £17.80 £20.47
Median % change year-on-year +11.85% -13.04% +20.34%
UK median hourly rate £19.91 £21.20 £36.50
% change year-on-year -6.08% -41.92% +86.99%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,573 17,298 21,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.48% 84.45% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,212 10,313 14,528
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 834 2,056 1,281
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.25 £15.44
Median hourly rate £25.23 £38.06 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.72% +8.74% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.26 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.90 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £28.30 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.48% +1.39% +40.19%

Economics
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Economics in the UK excluding London

Economics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Economics in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Economics in the UK excluding London

Economics
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Economics in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Economics in the UK excluding London

Economics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Economics in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Economics in the UK excluding London

Economics
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +22 3 £268 -51.27% 18
North West +20 3 £268 -51.27% 9
South East +48 2 - - 67
East of England +23 2 £408 - 14
Northern Ireland -7 2 £313 -3.85% 2
South West +45 1 £525 - 9
Midlands +18 1 £350 -26.32% 12
West Midlands +17 1 £350 -26.32% 10
Economics
UK

Economics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 2 (18.18%) SAS
2 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Electronic Patient Records
1 2 (18.18%) Hadoop
1 2 (18.18%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 6 (54.55%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (9.09%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Billing
4 1 (9.09%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Legal
4 1 (9.09%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Business Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Information Scientist
3 1 (9.09%) Compliance Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Compliance Business Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Data Compliance Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Data Migration Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Data Migration Business Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Functional Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Functional Business Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Migration Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) EDI
1 1 (9.09%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Life Science
2 1 (9.09%) Photography
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (36.36%) Process Improvement
1 4 (36.36%) Visualisation
2 3 (27.27%) Actionable Insight
2 3 (27.27%) Analytics
2 3 (27.27%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (18.18%) Budgeting
3 2 (18.18%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (18.18%) Data Analysis
3 2 (18.18%) Data Science
3 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
3 2 (18.18%) Financial Analysis
3 2 (18.18%) Health Informatics
3 2 (18.18%) Informatics
3 2 (18.18%) Ontologies
3 2 (18.18%) Statistical Analysis
3 2 (18.18%) Visual Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) MATLAB
2 2 (18.18%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) PhD
3 1 (9.09%) CBAP
3 1 (9.09%) PMI Certification
3 1 (9.09%) PMP
3 1 (9.09%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) PSD2
1 1 (9.09%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) Salesforce