Economics Jobs

Economics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Economics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Economics over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 558 561 493
Rank change year-on-year +3 -68 +114
Permanent jobs citing Economics 153 373 571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.36% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.43% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 54 167 92
10th Percentile £29,225 £25,000 £31,888
25th Percentile £40,625 £29,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £44,343 £52,392
Median % change year-on-year +40.95% -15.36% -5.60%
75th Percentile £87,500 £65,625 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,750 £92,250 £78,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,886 £35,000 £53,010
% change year-on-year +25.39% -33.97% +17.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Economics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,902 86,889 92,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.67% 84.13% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,611 60,763 54,796
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Economics.

Salary trend for Economics in the UK

Economics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Economics over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Economics in the UK

Economics
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Economics within the UK over the 6 months to 30 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -19 146 £62,500 +38.89% 584
UK excluding London +108 89 £43,886 +25.39% 573
Work from Home +74 71 £50,000 +11.11% 311
London -7 61 £85,000 +40.37% 104
North of England +59 53 £52,500 -4.55% 104
North West +30 46 £40,000 -27.27% 42
Midlands +65 17 £40,000 +53.85% 101
West Midlands +46 12 £30,000 +20.00% 53
South West +93 8 £50,136 -21.36% 63
East Midlands +37 5 £41,250 +35.25% 40
East of England +30 5 £50,000 +72.41% 81
Scotland +116 4 £58,750 - 24
Yorkshire +52 4 - - 48
North East +41 3 £65,000 +15.92% 14
South East +59 2 £44,000 -4.95% 198

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 3 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.31%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.31%) SAS
3 1 (0.65%) Confluence
3 1 (0.65%) Jupyter
Applications
1 62 (40.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (7.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (6.54%) Chatbot
4 6 (3.92%) Stata
5 5 (3.27%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.65%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 40 (26.14%) Power Platform
2 5 (3.27%) AWS
2 5 (3.27%) GitHub
3 4 (2.61%) Snowflake
4 3 (1.96%) Azure
4 3 (1.96%) dbt
5 2 (1.31%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (1.31%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (1.31%) GCP
5 2 (1.31%) SaaS
6 1 (0.65%) Intacct
6 1 (0.65%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.65%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (26.14%) Power BI
2 21 (13.73%) Tableau
3 5 (3.27%) Power Query
4 4 (2.61%) Big Data
4 4 (2.61%) PowerPivot
5 2 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.31%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.31%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.65%) Base SAS
6 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.65%) Dremio
6 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.65%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 1 (0.65%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (4.58%) JIRA
2 1 (0.65%) Git
General
1 97 (63.40%) Finance
2 85 (55.56%) Social Skills
3 63 (41.18%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (15.69%) Marketing
5 20 (13.07%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (8.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (7.84%) Retail
8 11 (7.19%) Agriculture
9 5 (3.27%) Banking
9 5 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (3.27%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.61%) Arabic Language
10 4 (2.61%) Billing
10 4 (2.61%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.61%) German Language
10 4 (2.61%) Italian Language
10 4 (2.61%) Legal
11 3 (1.96%) Advertising
11 3 (1.96%) Law
Job Titles
1 76 (49.67%) Analyst
2 47 (30.72%) Data Analyst
3 26 (16.99%) Procurement Analyst
3 26 (16.99%) Senior
4 11 (7.19%) Consultant
4 11 (7.19%) Project Manager
5 10 (6.54%) Data Consultant
5 10 (6.54%) Research Scientist
5 10 (6.54%) Trainer
6 9 (5.88%) Data Governance Consultant
6 9 (5.88%) Governance Consultant
6 9 (5.88%) Lead
6 9 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
7 6 (3.92%) Market Analyst
7 6 (3.92%) Support Analyst
8 4 (2.61%) Developer
9 3 (1.96%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 3 (1.96%) Financial Analyst
9 3 (1.96%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 3 (1.96%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.61%) Kafka
2 3 (1.96%) PySpark
3 2 (1.31%) .NET
4 1 (0.65%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.65%) Django
4 1 (0.65%) EDI
4 1 (0.65%) Flask
4 1 (0.65%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 28 (18.30%) Management Information System
2 12 (7.84%) FMCG
3 9 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.92%) Credit Risk
5 5 (3.27%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.61%) Social Media
7 3 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.96%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.96%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.96%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.31%) Acoustics
8 2 (1.31%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.31%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.65%) Derivative
9 1 (0.65%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.65%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.65%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (51.63%) Analytics
2 48 (31.37%) Data Analysis
3 45 (29.41%) Visualisation
4 41 (26.80%) Data Analytics
5 39 (25.49%) Statistics
6 34 (22.22%) Process Improvement
7 33 (21.57%) Mathematics
8 32 (20.92%) Data Management
9 30 (19.61%) ERP
9 30 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
10 29 (18.95%) Business Intelligence
11 27 (17.65%) Physics
12 26 (16.99%) Indirect Procurement
12 26 (16.99%) Source to Pay
13 25 (16.34%) Project Management
14 23 (15.03%) Analytical Thinking
15 22 (14.38%) Decision-Making
16 21 (13.73%) Data Science
17 19 (12.42%) Computer Science
18 17 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 38 (24.84%) SQL
2 37 (24.18%) Python
3 16 (10.46%) R
4 7 (4.58%) C#
5 4 (2.61%) VB
6 3 (1.96%) VBA
7 2 (1.31%) Java
7 2 (1.31%) MATLAB
7 2 (1.31%) Scala
8 1 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 134 (87.58%) Degree
2 31 (20.26%) Master's Degree
3 11 (7.19%) MBA
3 11 (7.19%) PhD
4 7 (4.58%) Numerate Degree
5 4 (2.61%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.31%) ACCA
6 2 (1.31%) CFA
6 2 (1.31%) CIMA
6 2 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.31%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.65%) CBAP
7 1 (0.65%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.65%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (26.14%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.61%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.96%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.31%) GDPR
4 2 (1.31%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.65%) Basel III
5 1 (0.65%) GRC
5 1 (0.65%) IFRS
5 1 (0.65%) IFRS 9
Systems Management
1 2 (1.31%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (18.30%) SAP
2 16 (10.46%) Microsoft
3 11 (7.19%) Capita
4 10 (6.54%) PayPal
5 8 (5.23%) Google
6 7 (4.58%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.61%) Bloomberg
8 3 (1.96%) Databricks
8 3 (1.96%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (1.31%) Informatica
9 2 (1.31%) Talend
10 1 (0.65%) Adaptive Insights
10 1 (0.65%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.65%) NEC
10 1 (0.65%) Oracle
10 1 (0.65%) Sage