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 21 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 551 550 484
Rank change year-on-year -1 -66 +119
Permanent jobs citing Economics 136 379 632
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.39% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.45% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 48 189 93
10th Percentile £38,750 £25,000 £33,289
25th Percentile £47,188 £29,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £46,293 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +72.81% -11.82% -4.55%
75th Percentile £87,500 £68,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £89,750 £91,250 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £38,000 £53,519
% change year-on-year +44.74% -29.00% +25.93%

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 48,677 83,670 101,581
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.33% 86.18% 95.66%
Number of salaries quoted 26,384 59,403 59,508
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,530 £55,000 £61,750
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% -10.93% +2.92%
75th Percentile £76,840 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £54,882
% change year-on-year +5.00% -8.90% +4.54%

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
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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -27 131 £80,000 +72.81% 607
UK excluding London +95 80 £55,000 +44.74% 129
Work from Home +104 65 £60,000 +33.33% 204
London -24 53 £85,000 +13.33% 526
North of England +80 50 £65,000 +26.15% 14
North West +36 43 - - 8
Midlands +51 19 £50,000 +100.00% 20
East Midlands +63 13 £45,000 +47.54% 3
West Midlands +21 6 £55,000 +120.00% 17
South West +105 5 £50,136 -12.81% 10
Yorkshire +70 4 - - 4
South East +83 3 £55,000 +18.81% 50
North East +42 3 £65,000 +15.92% 2
Scotland +125 2 £80,000 +55.26% 16
East of England +35 1 - - 17

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 (1.47%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.47%) SAS
2 1 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.74%) Confluence
2 1 (0.74%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
Applications
1 63 (46.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (8.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (5.15%) Chatbot
4 6 (4.41%) Stata
5 5 (3.68%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (3.68%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.74%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 37 (27.21%) Power Platform
2 6 (4.41%) AWS
3 4 (2.94%) Azure
4 3 (2.21%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (2.21%) dbt
5 2 (1.47%) GCP
5 2 (1.47%) SaaS
5 2 (1.47%) Snowflake
5 2 (1.47%) WhatsApp
6 1 (0.74%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.74%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.74%) GitHub
6 1 (0.74%) Intacct
6 1 (0.74%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.74%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (27.21%) Power BI
2 19 (13.97%) Tableau
3 5 (3.68%) Data Mining
3 5 (3.68%) Power Query
4 4 (2.94%) PowerPivot
5 2 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.47%) Big Data
5 2 (1.47%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.47%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.74%) Base SAS
6 1 (0.74%) Dremio
6 1 (0.74%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.74%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 1 (0.74%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (3.68%) Selenium
2 4 (2.94%) JIRA
3 1 (0.74%) Git
3 1 (0.74%) RStudio
General
1 94 (69.12%) Finance
2 73 (53.68%) Social Skills
3 42 (30.88%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (19.85%) Presentation Skills
5 18 (13.24%) Marketing
6 8 (5.88%) Agriculture
6 8 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (5.15%) Legal
8 6 (4.41%) Law
8 6 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (3.68%) Banking
9 5 (3.68%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.94%) Billing
10 4 (2.94%) Financial Institution
11 3 (2.21%) Japanese Language
11 3 (2.21%) Retail
12 2 (1.47%) Advertising
13 1 (0.74%) Games
13 1 (0.74%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 69 (50.74%) Analyst
2 40 (29.41%) Data Analyst
3 38 (27.94%) Senior
4 26 (19.12%) Procurement Analyst
5 19 (13.97%) Senior Analyst
6 14 (10.29%) Lead
7 12 (8.82%) Project Manager
8 9 (6.62%) Consultant
8 9 (6.62%) Data Consultant
8 9 (6.62%) Pricing Analyst
9 8 (5.88%) Compliance Analyst
9 8 (5.88%) Data Governance Consultant
9 8 (5.88%) Governance Consultant
10 7 (5.15%) Research Scientist
10 7 (5.15%) Trainer
11 6 (4.41%) Digital Analyst
11 6 (4.41%) Marketing Analyst
11 6 (4.41%) Marketing Data Analyst
12 5 (3.68%) Senior Marketing Analyst
12 5 (3.68%) Senior Pricing Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.68%) CSS
1 5 (3.68%) HTML
1 5 (3.68%) NumPy
1 5 (3.68%) Pandas
2 3 (2.21%) PySpark
3 2 (1.47%) Kafka
4 1 (0.74%) .NET
4 1 (0.74%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.74%) Django
4 1 (0.74%) Flask
4 1 (0.74%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 27 (19.85%) Management Information System
2 11 (8.09%) Credit Risk
2 11 (8.09%) FMCG
3 10 (7.35%) Algorithms
4 9 (6.62%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.94%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.21%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.21%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.21%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.21%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.47%) Acoustics
7 2 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.47%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.74%) Derivative
8 1 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.74%) PMI
8 1 (0.74%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.74%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.74%) Windows
1 1 (0.74%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (56.62%) Analytics
2 54 (39.71%) Visualisation
3 45 (33.09%) Data Analysis
4 42 (30.88%) Process Improvement
5 38 (27.94%) Data Analytics
6 37 (27.21%) Statistics
7 31 (22.79%) Data Management
8 30 (22.06%) ERP
9 26 (19.12%) Indirect Procurement
9 26 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (19.12%) Source to Pay
10 25 (18.38%) Business Intelligence
10 25 (18.38%) Data Visualisation
11 24 (17.65%) Project Management
12 23 (16.91%) Mathematics
13 21 (15.44%) Decision-Making
14 20 (14.71%) Computer Science
15 16 (11.76%) Business Analytics
16 15 (11.03%) Data Science
17 14 (10.29%) Analytical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 38 (27.94%) SQL
2 36 (26.47%) Python
3 16 (11.76%) R
4 6 (4.41%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.94%) VB
6 3 (2.21%) C#
6 3 (2.21%) Java
6 3 (2.21%) VBA
7 2 (1.47%) Scala
8 1 (0.74%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 119 (87.50%) Degree
2 30 (22.06%) Master's Degree
3 13 (9.56%) MBA
4 12 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (7.35%) Numerate Degree
6 8 (5.88%) PhD
7 2 (1.47%) ACCA
7 2 (1.47%) CFA
7 2 (1.47%) CIMA
8 1 (0.74%) CBAP
8 1 (0.74%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.74%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.74%) PMP
8 1 (0.74%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (27.94%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.21%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.47%) GDPR
3 2 (1.47%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.74%) Basel III
4 1 (0.74%) IFRS
4 1 (0.74%) IFRS 9
Systems Management
1 3 (2.21%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (20.59%) SAP
2 19 (13.97%) Microsoft
3 12 (8.82%) Salesforce
4 11 (8.09%) Capita
5 7 (5.15%) PayPal
6 4 (2.94%) Bloomberg
7 3 (2.21%) Databricks
7 3 (2.21%) Google
8 2 (1.47%) Informatica
8 2 (1.47%) Talend
9 1 (0.74%) Adaptive Insights
9 1 (0.74%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.74%) Oracle
9 1 (0.74%) Sage