Economics Contracts

Economics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 494 644 639
Rank change year-on-year +150 -5 -65
Contract jobs citing Economics 92 78 193
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.13% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.14% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 48 133
10th Percentile £375 £348 £153
25th Percentile £501 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £638 £700
Median % change year-on-year +25.49% -8.93% -
75th Percentile £850 £800 £750
90th Percentile - £850 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £375 £141
% change year-on-year +26.67% +166.90% -60.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 22
10th Percentile - £20.47 -
25th Percentile £10.42 £25.17 £14.25
Median hourly rate £22.68 £44.00 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -48.45% +125.41% -25.25%
75th Percentile £25.93 £51.75 £44.19
90th Percentile £26.50 £70.13 £51.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.68 £20.47 £14.50
% change year-on-year +10.80% +41.17% +26.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,653 53,977 80,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.28% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,313 37,392 56,301
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,779 1,937
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.54 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.98 £35.90 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.21% +79.50% -8.09%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 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
England +130 84 £800 +23.08% 242
London +124 68 £800 +6.67% 182
Work from Home +144 33 £712 +18.67% 88
UK excluding London +58 13 £475 +26.67% 65
North of England +34 3 £531 +3.66% 15
Wales +19 3 - - 1
North West - 3 £531 - 5
West Midlands +28 2 £475 - 7
Midlands +24 2 £475 -9.52% 11
East of England +12 2 - - 7
South East -5 1 £212 -43.47% 21
South West - 1 - - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 £325 -

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 2 (2.17%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.09%) Apache
2 1 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (7.61%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (5.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.43%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.09%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 4 (4.35%) Loan IQ
2 2 (2.17%) SAP MDG
3 1 (1.09%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.09%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.09%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.09%) SAP HCM
3 1 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (13.04%) npm
2 5 (5.43%) Azure
3 3 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.17%) AWS
4 2 (2.17%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.17%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.09%) GCP
5 1 (1.09%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.09%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.09%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.52%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (19.57%) Relational Database
2 3 (3.26%) Tableau
3 2 (2.17%) Hadoop
3 2 (2.17%) Power BI
4 1 (1.09%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.09%) Metadata
4 1 (1.09%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 29 (31.52%) JIRA
2 12 (13.04%) webpack
3 11 (11.96%) TeamCity
4 9 (9.78%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.17%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.09%) Git
6 1 (1.09%) MLflow
General
1 65 (70.65%) Social Skills
2 62 (67.39%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (31.52%) Front Office
4 22 (23.91%) Finance
5 13 (14.13%) Banking
6 12 (13.04%) Investment Banking
7 7 (7.61%) Law
7 7 (7.61%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (6.52%) Marketing
9 5 (5.43%) Legal
9 5 (5.43%) Public Sector
10 4 (4.35%) Advertising
10 4 (4.35%) Financial Institution
11 3 (3.26%) Manufacturing
12 2 (2.17%) Digital Economy
12 2 (2.17%) German Language
12 2 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (2.17%) Publishing
12 2 (2.17%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 26 (28.26%) Developer
2 19 (20.65%) Analyst
3 18 (19.57%) UI Developer
4 17 (18.48%) Electronic Trading Developer
5 13 (14.13%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 12 (13.04%) Angular Developer
6 12 (13.04%) React Developer
7 8 (8.70%) Real Time Developer
8 7 (7.61%) Technical Engineer
9 6 (6.52%) Applications Developer
9 6 (6.52%) Web Applications Developer
9 6 (6.52%) Web UI Developer
10 5 (5.43%) C# Developer
10 5 (5.43%) Project Manager
11 4 (4.35%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
11 4 (4.35%) Data Scientist
11 4 (4.35%) Front Office Developer
11 4 (4.35%) Full Stack Developer
11 4 (4.35%) Full-Stack C# Developer
12 3 (3.26%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (31.52%) React
2 17 (18.48%) Reactive Extensions
2 17 (18.48%) Redux
3 12 (13.04%) AngularJS
3 12 (13.04%) REST
3 12 (13.04%) RxJS
3 12 (13.04%) WebSockets
4 11 (11.96%) CSS
4 11 (11.96%) WPF
5 7 (7.61%) .NET
6 2 (2.17%) Java Concurrency
6 2 (2.17%) Kafka
6 2 (2.17%) Pandas
7 1 (1.09%) ADO
7 1 (1.09%) JSON
7 1 (1.09%) NumPy
7 1 (1.09%) SailPoint
7 1 (1.09%) SciPy
7 1 (1.09%) Seaborn
7 1 (1.09%) Tkinter
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.30%) Fixed Income
2 7 (7.61%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (6.52%) Derivative
3 6 (6.52%) Product Ownership
3 6 (6.52%) Wiki
4 3 (3.26%) Life Science
5 2 (2.17%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.17%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.17%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.09%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.09%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.09%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.09%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.09%) Social Media
6 1 (1.09%) VLE
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (43.48%) Agile
2 33 (35.87%) Continuous Improvement
3 29 (31.52%) Design Patterns
4 28 (30.43%) Electronic Trading
5 26 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (21.74%) Front End Development
6 20 (21.74%) Roadmaps
7 19 (20.65%) Computer Science
7 19 (20.65%) Statistics
8 13 (14.13%) Data Analysis
8 13 (14.13%) Mathematics
8 13 (14.13%) TDD
9 12 (13.04%) Analytics
9 12 (13.04%) Project Management
9 12 (13.04%) Software Engineering
9 12 (13.04%) Web Application Development
10 11 (11.96%) Continuous Integration
10 11 (11.96%) DevOps
10 11 (11.96%) Refactoring
11 10 (10.87%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 34 (36.96%) SQL
2 29 (31.52%) TypeScript
3 21 (22.83%) C#
4 12 (13.04%) JavaScript
5 11 (11.96%) Python
6 8 (8.70%) Java
7 7 (7.61%) C++
7 7 (7.61%) VB.NET
7 7 (7.61%) VBA
8 4 (4.35%) R
9 2 (2.17%) Haskell
9 2 (2.17%) Scala
10 1 (1.09%) VB
Qualifications
1 50 (54.35%) Degree
2 18 (19.57%) Master's Degree
3 8 (8.70%) PhD
3 8 (8.70%) Postgraduate
4 7 (7.61%) Numerate Degree
5 4 (4.35%) APMP
5 4 (4.35%) Security Cleared
6 3 (3.26%) SC Cleared
7 2 (2.17%) CBAP
8 1 (1.09%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.09%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.43%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.35%) PMO
3 3 (3.26%) QA
4 1 (1.09%) GDPR
Vendors
1 7 (7.61%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.35%) SAP
3 2 (2.17%) Google
3 2 (2.17%) Oracle
3 2 (2.17%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.09%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.09%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.09%) TikTok