Economics Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Economics
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 255 312 455
Rank change year-on-year +57 +143 +103
Contract jobs citing Economics 45 34 16
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.45% 0.22% 0.063%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.25% 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 18 15
10th Percentile £513 £189 £363
25th Percentile £750 £350 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £712 £600
Median % change year-on-year +19.38% +18.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £853 £800 £791
90th Percentile £875 £850 £850
UK median daily rate £750 £712 £638
% change year-on-year +5.34% +11.69% -8.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
Median hourly rate £19.91 £10.42 -
Median % change year-on-year +91.07% - -
UK median hourly rate £19.91 £22.68 £44.00
% change year-on-year -12.21% -48.45% +125.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,390 22,975
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.13% 87.90% 89.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,194 8,954 16,256
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 577 528
10th Percentile £14.03 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.19 £25.00 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.02 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.38 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £36.00
% change year-on-year -19.33% -0.14% +44.00%

Economics
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Economics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Economics trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Economics
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Economics.

Economics daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Economics
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Economics over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Economics daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Economics
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Economics.

Economics hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Economics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.22%) EViews
Cloud Services
1 12 (26.67%) AWS
2 9 (20.00%) Azure
3 8 (17.78%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.67%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.78%) PostgreSQL
1 8 (17.78%) Redis
2 5 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 3 (6.67%) Power BI
4 2 (4.44%) Power Query
4 2 (4.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (26.67%) JIRA
General
1 37 (82.22%) Social Skills
2 31 (68.89%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (53.33%) Front Office
4 20 (44.44%) Finance
5 13 (28.89%) Banking
6 11 (24.44%) Financial Institution
6 11 (24.44%) Investment Banking
7 4 (8.89%) Retail Banking
8 3 (6.67%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (6.67%) Retail
9 2 (4.44%) Marketing
9 2 (4.44%) Telecoms
10 1 (2.22%) Advertising
10 1 (2.22%) Billing
10 1 (2.22%) Electronics
10 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (2.22%) Law
10 1 (2.22%) Local Government
10 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (44.44%) Developer
2 12 (26.67%) C# Developer
2 12 (26.67%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
2 12 (26.67%) Electronic Trading Developer
2 12 (26.67%) Real Time Developer
3 11 (24.44%) Business Analyst
3 11 (24.44%) Front Office Business Analyst
4 10 (22.22%) .NET Developer
4 10 (22.22%) C# .NET Developer
5 9 (20.00%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
5 9 (20.00%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
5 9 (20.00%) Lead
6 8 (17.78%) Java Developer
6 8 (17.78%) Lead Developer
6 8 (17.78%) Lead Java Developer
7 7 (15.56%) Analyst
8 4 (8.89%) Data Engineer
8 4 (8.89%) Front Office Developer
9 3 (6.67%) Python Data Engineer
9 3 (6.67%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (26.67%) .NET
1 12 (26.67%) AngularJS
1 12 (26.67%) Reactive Extensions
2 8 (17.78%) ActiveMQ
2 8 (17.78%) Kafka
3 3 (6.67%) PySpark
4 1 (2.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (26.67%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (24.44%) Fixed Income
3 2 (4.44%) Equities
3 2 (4.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.22%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.22%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (48.89%) Agile
2 21 (46.67%) Electronic Trading
3 20 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (31.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (26.67%) Computer Science
5 12 (26.67%) Design Patterns
5 12 (26.67%) OO
6 11 (24.44%) Mathematics
7 10 (22.22%) Low Latency
7 10 (22.22%) Quantitative Research
8 9 (20.00%) Business Analysis
8 9 (20.00%) DevOps
8 9 (20.00%) Manual Testing
8 9 (20.00%) Product Management
8 9 (20.00%) Regression Testing
8 9 (20.00%) Test Automation
8 9 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
9 8 (17.78%) Architectural Design
9 8 (17.78%) BDD
9 8 (17.78%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 21 (46.67%) SQL
2 20 (44.44%) Java
3 12 (26.67%) C#
3 12 (26.67%) TypeScript
4 10 (22.22%) Python
5 9 (20.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.22%) PHP
7 1 (2.22%) R
7 1 (2.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (62.22%) Degree
2 10 (22.22%) Numerate Degree
3 3 (6.67%) CFA
3 3 (6.67%) Master's Degree
4 2 (4.44%) MBA
5 1 (2.22%) CISA
5 1 (2.22%) CISM
5 1 (2.22%) CISSP
5 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.22%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.22%) Basel III
2 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.22%) QA
2 1 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 12 (26.67%) Oracle
2 9 (20.00%) ION Trading
3 2 (4.44%) Alteryx
3 2 (4.44%) Murex
3 2 (4.44%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.44%) SAP
4 1 (2.22%) Calypso