Economics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Economics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 644 513 534
Rank change year-on-year -131 +21 +35
Permanent jobs citing Economics 130 170 368
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.35% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.38% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 69 64 140
10th Percentile £30,600 £29,225 £25,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £38,750 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £55,000 £44,671
Median % change year-on-year +72.73% +23.12% -14.91%
75th Percentile £111,250 £85,313 £62,530
90th Percentile £135,000 £87,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £76,500 £45,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year +70.00% +28.57% -34.60%

All Process & 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 72,820 44,444 83,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.76% 90.26% 82.20%
Number of salaries quoted 50,274 24,878 58,156
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Economics
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Economics relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Economics job vacancy trend in the UK

Economics
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Economics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Economics

Economics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Economics over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Economics in the UK

Economics
Top 14 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 13 July 2026. 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 -129 101 £95,000 +72.73% 193
UK excluding London -126 63 £76,500 +70.00% 79
London -20 55 £96,250 +13.24% 149
Work from Home -41 49 £120,000 +156.95% 78
North of England -53 25 £107,500 +168.75% 8
Scotland +25 20 £107,500 +82.98% 5
North West -38 18 £83,750 +109.38% 2
East Midlands -26 10 £40,500 +1.25% 1
Midlands -41 10 £40,500 +1.25% 2
South East -29 6 £27,500 -38.89% 18
Yorkshire -35 5 £120,000 - 6
North East -52 2 - -
East of England -39 1 £65,000 +30.00% 5
Wales - 1 £76,500 - 2

Economics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (6.92%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.08%) SAS
3 3 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (9.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 24 (18.46%) Power Platform
1 24 (18.46%) SaaS
2 20 (15.38%) AWS
3 11 (8.46%) Azure
4 10 (7.69%) Google Sheets
5 9 (6.92%) Amazon Kinesis
5 9 (6.92%) GCP
6 6 (4.62%) Serverless
7 3 (2.31%) Amazon Bedrock
7 3 (2.31%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 3 (2.31%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (2.31%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (2.31%) dbt
7 3 (2.31%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.54%) IaaS
8 2 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (1.54%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.54%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (13.85%) Firewall
1 18 (13.85%) Network Security
1 18 (13.85%) VLAN
2 6 (4.62%) BGP
2 6 (4.62%) DNS
2 6 (4.62%) IPsec
2 6 (4.62%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (18.46%) Power BI
2 9 (6.92%) Hadoop
2 9 (6.92%) NoSQL
3 8 (6.15%) Tableau
4 6 (4.62%) Apache Hive
4 6 (4.62%) Big Data
4 6 (4.62%) HBase
5 3 (2.31%) BigQuery
5 3 (2.31%) Data Vault
5 3 (2.31%) Metadata
5 3 (2.31%) Semantic Layer
6 2 (1.54%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.54%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.77%) Looker
General
1 70 (53.85%) Finance
2 53 (40.77%) Social Skills
3 43 (33.08%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (26.15%) Marketing
5 26 (20.00%) Retail
6 11 (8.46%) Banking
7 9 (6.92%) Military
7 9 (6.92%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (6.15%) Advertising
9 7 (5.38%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (5.38%) Telecoms
10 6 (4.62%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (3.85%) Law
11 5 (3.85%) Legal
11 5 (3.85%) Public Sector
12 4 (3.08%) Aviation
12 4 (3.08%) Manufacturing
12 4 (3.08%) Social Science
13 2 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (1.54%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 28 (21.54%) Senior
2 24 (18.46%) Analyst
3 18 (13.85%) Security Engineer
3 18 (13.85%) Senior Security Engineer
4 11 (8.46%) Data Scientist
5 10 (7.69%) Architect
6 7 (5.38%) Consultant
6 7 (5.38%) Lead
7 6 (4.62%) Head of Professional Services
7 6 (4.62%) Machine Learning Scientist
8 5 (3.85%) Data Analyst
8 5 (3.85%) Lead Architect
9 4 (3.08%) Account Executive
9 4 (3.08%) Enterprise Architect
9 4 (3.08%) Lead Enterprise Architect
9 4 (3.08%) Qualitative Analyst
9 4 (3.08%) Quantitative Analyst
9 4 (3.08%) Quantitative Risk Analyst
9 4 (3.08%) Risk Analyst
10 3 (2.31%) Head of Service Operations
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.92%) Kafka
2 6 (4.62%) Node.js
2 6 (4.62%) Pandas
2 6 (4.62%) PyTorch
2 6 (4.62%) scikit-learn
3 2 (1.54%) LangChain
3 2 (1.54%) LangGraph
4 1 (0.77%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.46%) Onboarding
2 10 (7.69%) Marketing Technology
3 8 (6.15%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.08%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (3.08%) Credit Risk
5 2 (1.54%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.77%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (0.77%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.77%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.77%) Derivative
6 1 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.77%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.77%) PMI
6 1 (0.77%) PropTech
6 1 (0.77%) Social Media
6 1 (0.77%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.77%) Virtual Reality
6 1 (0.77%) Web Conferencing
6 1 (0.77%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.15%) Linux
2 2 (1.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (42.31%) Analytics
2 54 (41.54%) Decision-Making
3 35 (26.92%) AI
4 28 (21.54%) Business Intelligence
4 28 (21.54%) Cybersecurity
5 27 (20.77%) Mathematics
6 26 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
7 25 (19.23%) Data Science
7 25 (19.23%) Project Delivery
8 23 (17.69%) Computer Science
9 22 (16.92%) Budgeting and Forecasting
10 20 (15.38%) B2B
11 19 (14.62%) BCP
11 19 (14.62%) Business Continuity
11 19 (14.62%) Business Continuity Planning
11 19 (14.62%) Roadmaps
12 18 (13.85%) Network Architecture
12 18 (13.85%) Vulnerability Remediation
13 17 (13.08%) Stakeholder Management
13 17 (13.08%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 29 (22.31%) SQL
2 24 (18.46%) Python
3 6 (4.62%) C
3 6 (4.62%) C#
3 6 (4.62%) Java
3 6 (4.62%) PHP
3 6 (4.62%) Ruby
4 1 (0.77%) R
Qualifications
1 60 (46.15%) Degree
2 17 (13.08%) ACCA
3 16 (12.31%) CIMA
4 6 (4.62%) DBS Check
5 5 (3.85%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.08%) Postgraduate
7 3 (2.31%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.31%) CISA
8 2 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.54%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.54%) MBA
9 1 (0.77%) CFA
9 1 (0.77%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.77%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.77%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.92%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.62%) GDPR
2 6 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.62%) NIST
2 6 (4.62%) PCI DSS
3 3 (2.31%) QA
4 2 (1.54%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.77%) GRC
5 1 (0.77%) IFRS
5 1 (0.77%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.77%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (3.08%) IAG
Systems Management
1 6 (4.62%) Hadoop YARN
2 3 (2.31%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (12.31%) Google
1 16 (12.31%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.92%) Databricks
3 8 (6.15%) SAP
4 7 (5.38%) Oracle
5 6 (4.62%) HP
5 6 (4.62%) IBM
6 2 (1.54%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.54%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.54%) SYSPRO
6 2 (1.54%) UiPath
7 1 (0.77%) Adobe
7 1 (0.77%) HubSpot