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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 495 616 664
Rank change year-on-year +121 +48 -92
Contract jobs citing Economics 84 85 185
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.15% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.17% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 52 128
10th Percentile £373 £380 £313
25th Percentile £505 £500 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £712 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year +13.92% -10.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile £850 £800 £775
90th Percentile - £850 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £506 £480 £141
% change year-on-year +5.47% +241.64% -64.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 21
10th Percentile - £20.47 -
25th Percentile £10.42 £21.42 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.87 £36.50 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -42.83% +86.99% -20.33%
75th Percentile £25.65 £51.75 £41.75
90th Percentile £26.50 £70.13 £51.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.24 £20.47 £17.01
% change year-on-year -1.15% +20.34% +47.91%

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 36,704 51,058 79,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.15% 89.78% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 35,390 55,663
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,690 1,894
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £15.99 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.54%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 17 May 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 +103 75 £712 +13.92% 202
London +89 59 £800 +6.67% 130
Work from Home +136 30 £712 +23.83% 191
UK excluding London +47 13 £506 +5.47% 71
North of England +26 4 £538 +9.69% 15
North West +18 4 £538 +11.98% 8
South West - 3 £538 - 4
Wales +22 2 - - 1
East of England +11 2 - - 8
South East -1 2 £212 -43.47% 24
Midlands +28 1 £475 -9.52% 15
West Midlands +25 1 £475 - 11
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 4 (4.76%) SAS
2 3 (3.57%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.38%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (10.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (8.33%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (5.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (2.38%) MS Visio
6 2 (2.38%) Stata
7 1 (1.19%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (3.57%) 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
3 1 (1.19%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 7 (8.33%) npm
2 4 (4.76%) Azure
3 3 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (3.57%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.38%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.19%) AWS
5 1 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.19%) GCP
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 12 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 5 (5.95%) Tableau
3 3 (3.57%) Power BI
4 2 (2.38%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.19%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.19%) Looker
5 1 (1.19%) Metadata
5 1 (1.19%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 19 (22.62%) JIRA
2 9 (10.71%) Cypress.io
3 7 (8.33%) webpack
4 6 (7.14%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.38%) Jenkins
General
1 56 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 51 (60.71%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (29.76%) Finance
4 19 (22.62%) Front Office
5 12 (14.29%) Banking
6 8 (9.52%) Investment Banking
6 8 (9.52%) Marketing
6 8 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (8.33%) Law
8 5 (5.95%) Advertising
8 5 (5.95%) Legal
9 4 (4.76%) German Language
9 4 (4.76%) Spanish Language
10 3 (3.57%) Financial Institution
10 3 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (3.57%) Manufacturing
10 3 (3.57%) Public Sector
11 2 (2.38%) Digital Economy
11 2 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 18 (21.43%) Developer
2 16 (19.05%) Analyst
3 13 (15.48%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 10 (11.90%) UI Developer
5 9 (10.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 9 (10.71%) React Developer
6 7 (8.33%) Angular Developer
6 7 (8.33%) Technical Engineer
7 5 (5.95%) Real Time Developer
8 4 (4.76%) C# Developer
8 4 (4.76%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
8 4 (4.76%) Data Analyst
8 4 (4.76%) Data Scientist
8 4 (4.76%) Front Office Developer
8 4 (4.76%) Full Stack Developer
8 4 (4.76%) Full-Stack C# Developer
8 4 (4.76%) Project Manager
9 3 (3.57%) Econometrician
9 3 (3.57%) Senior
9 3 (3.57%) Web UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (22.62%) React
2 12 (14.29%) Reactive Extensions
2 12 (14.29%) Redux
3 7 (8.33%) .NET
3 7 (8.33%) AngularJS
3 7 (8.33%) REST
3 7 (8.33%) RxJS
3 7 (8.33%) WebSockets
4 6 (7.14%) CSS
4 6 (7.14%) WPF
5 2 (2.38%) Java Concurrency
5 2 (2.38%) Kafka
6 1 (1.19%) ADO
6 1 (1.19%) JSON
6 1 (1.19%) NumPy
6 1 (1.19%) Pandas
6 1 (1.19%) SailPoint
6 1 (1.19%) SciPy
6 1 (1.19%) Tkinter
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.90%) Fixed Income
2 7 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (5.95%) Derivative
3 5 (5.95%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.76%) Credit Risk
4 4 (4.76%) Wiki
5 3 (3.57%) Life Science
6 2 (2.38%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.38%) Market Risk
6 2 (2.38%) Social Media
7 1 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.19%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.19%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.19%) PMI
7 1 (1.19%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.19%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.19%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.19%) VLE
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (35.71%) Agile
2 27 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (27.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 22 (26.19%) Computer Science
4 22 (26.19%) Statistics
5 19 (22.62%) Analytics
5 19 (22.62%) Design Patterns
5 19 (22.62%) Electronic Trading
6 18 (21.43%) Roadmaps
7 17 (20.24%) Data Analysis
8 16 (19.05%) Mathematics
9 12 (14.29%) Front End Development
9 12 (14.29%) Project Management
10 9 (10.71%) Data Science
10 9 (10.71%) Data Visualisation
10 9 (10.71%) Refactoring
10 9 (10.71%) Visualisation
11 8 (9.52%) DevOps
11 8 (9.52%) TDD
11 8 (9.52%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 32 (38.10%) SQL
2 19 (22.62%) TypeScript
3 16 (19.05%) C#
3 16 (19.05%) Python
4 9 (10.71%) C++
5 7 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 7 (8.33%) VB.NET
5 7 (8.33%) VBA
6 6 (7.14%) R
7 5 (5.95%) Java
8 2 (2.38%) Haskell
8 2 (2.38%) Scala
9 1 (1.19%) VB
Qualifications
1 54 (64.29%) Degree
2 24 (28.57%) Master's Degree
3 13 (15.48%) PhD
4 7 (8.33%) Postgraduate
5 6 (7.14%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (3.57%) APMP
6 3 (3.57%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.57%) Security Cleared
7 2 (2.38%) CBAP
7 2 (2.38%) MBA
8 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.19%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.19%) PMP
8 1 (1.19%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.95%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.57%) PMO
3 2 (2.38%) QA
4 1 (1.19%) GDPR
Vendors
1 7 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.14%) SAP
3 2 (2.38%) Adobe
3 2 (2.38%) Alteryx
3 2 (2.38%) CA
3 2 (2.38%) Google
3 2 (2.38%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.19%) Brandwatch
4 1 (1.19%) Oracle
4 1 (1.19%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.19%) TikTok