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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 586 535 473
Rank change year-on-year -51 -62 +154
Permanent jobs citing Economics 143 389 619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.39% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.46% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 50 185 89
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,000 £32,759
25th Percentile £45,517 £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 £63,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,250 £91,250 £79,100
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,500 £38,000 £53,519
% change year-on-year +19.74% -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 52,544 85,078 94,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.81% 85.26% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 26,695 59,840 55,939
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,071 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -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 18 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 18 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 -61 137 £80,000 +72.81% 418
UK excluding London +72 87 £45,500 +19.74% 105
Work from Home +75 68 £70,000 +55.55% 191
North of England +45 53 £52,500 +1.89% 20
London -16 53 £85,000 +38.21% 346
North West +19 46 £40,000 -27.27% 10
Midlands +43 18 £42,500 +63.46% 9
West Midlands +34 11 £30,000 +20.00% 7
South West +98 9 £45,272 -28.99% 8
East Midlands +16 7 £45,000 +47.54% 1
Yorkshire +52 4 - - 8
Scotland +109 3 £80,000 +55.26% 7
South East +61 3 £55,000 +18.81% 47
North East +30 3 £65,000 +15.92% 2
East of England +13 1 - - 13

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 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.40%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.40%) SAS
3 1 (0.70%) Confluence
3 1 (0.70%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 57 (39.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (6.99%) Chatbot
4 6 (4.20%) Stata
5 5 (3.50%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.70%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 36 (25.17%) Power Platform
2 5 (3.50%) GitHub
3 4 (2.80%) AWS
3 4 (2.80%) Azure
3 4 (2.80%) Snowflake
4 3 (2.10%) dbt
5 2 (1.40%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (1.40%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (1.40%) GCP
5 2 (1.40%) SaaS
6 1 (0.70%) Intacct
6 1 (0.70%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.70%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (25.17%) Power BI
2 18 (12.59%) Tableau
3 5 (3.50%) Power Query
4 4 (2.80%) Big Data
4 4 (2.80%) PowerPivot
5 2 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.40%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.40%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.70%) Base SAS
6 1 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.70%) Dremio
6 1 (0.70%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.70%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 1 (0.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (4.90%) JIRA
2 1 (0.70%) Git
2 1 (0.70%) RStudio
General
1 89 (62.24%) Finance
2 78 (54.55%) Social Skills
3 57 (39.86%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (16.78%) Presentation Skills
5 22 (15.38%) Marketing
6 11 (7.69%) Agriculture
7 10 (6.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (5.59%) Retail
9 6 (4.20%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (3.50%) Banking
10 5 (3.50%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (3.50%) Public Sector
11 4 (2.80%) Arabic Language
11 4 (2.80%) Billing
11 4 (2.80%) Financial Institution
11 4 (2.80%) German Language
11 4 (2.80%) Italian Language
11 4 (2.80%) Legal
12 3 (2.10%) Games
12 3 (2.10%) Law
Job Titles
1 68 (47.55%) Analyst
2 43 (30.07%) Data Analyst
3 31 (21.68%) Senior
4 26 (18.18%) Procurement Analyst
5 12 (8.39%) Project Manager
6 11 (7.69%) Lead
6 11 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
7 10 (6.99%) Consultant
7 10 (6.99%) Data Consultant
7 10 (6.99%) Research Scientist
7 10 (6.99%) Trainer
8 9 (6.29%) Data Governance Consultant
8 9 (6.29%) Governance Consultant
9 5 (3.50%) Support Analyst
10 4 (2.80%) Market Analyst
10 4 (2.80%) Pricing Analyst
11 3 (2.10%) Excel Analyst
11 3 (2.10%) Forecast Analyst
11 3 (2.10%) Marketing Data Analyst
11 3 (2.10%) Testing Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.80%) Kafka
2 3 (2.10%) PySpark
3 1 (0.70%) .NET
3 1 (0.70%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.70%) Django
3 1 (0.70%) EDI
3 1 (0.70%) Flask
3 1 (0.70%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 28 (19.58%) Management Information System
2 11 (7.69%) FMCG
3 9 (6.29%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.59%) Credit Risk
5 7 (4.90%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.80%) Social Media
7 3 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.10%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.10%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.10%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.40%) Acoustics
8 2 (1.40%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.40%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.40%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.70%) Derivative
9 1 (0.70%) PMI
9 1 (0.70%) Podcast
9 1 (0.70%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (53.85%) Analytics
2 48 (33.57%) Visualisation
3 44 (30.77%) Data Analysis
4 38 (26.57%) Data Analytics
5 35 (24.48%) Statistics
6 34 (23.78%) Process Improvement
7 32 (22.38%) Mathematics
8 30 (20.98%) ERP
9 29 (20.28%) Data Management
10 26 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
10 26 (18.18%) Indirect Procurement
10 26 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (18.18%) Source to Pay
11 25 (17.48%) Physics
12 24 (16.78%) Project Management
13 21 (14.69%) Decision-Making
14 20 (13.99%) Analytical Thinking
14 20 (13.99%) Computer Science
14 20 (13.99%) Data Science
15 19 (13.29%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 38 (26.57%) SQL
2 37 (25.87%) Python
3 19 (13.29%) R
4 6 (4.20%) C#
5 4 (2.80%) VB
6 3 (2.10%) VBA
7 2 (1.40%) Java
7 2 (1.40%) Scala
8 1 (0.70%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 126 (88.11%) Degree
2 30 (20.98%) Master's Degree
3 11 (7.69%) MBA
3 11 (7.69%) PhD
4 7 (4.90%) Numerate Degree
5 4 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.80%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.40%) ACCA
6 2 (1.40%) CFA
6 2 (1.40%) CIMA
7 1 (0.70%) CBAP
7 1 (0.70%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.70%) PMP
7 1 (0.70%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (27.97%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.40%) GDPR
2 2 (1.40%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.70%) Basel III
3 1 (0.70%) IFRS
3 1 (0.70%) IFRS 9
Systems Management
1 2 (1.40%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (19.58%) SAP
2 14 (9.79%) Microsoft
3 11 (7.69%) Capita
4 10 (6.99%) PayPal
5 9 (6.29%) Salesforce
6 7 (4.90%) Google
7 4 (2.80%) Bloomberg
8 3 (2.10%) Databricks
8 3 (2.10%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (1.40%) Informatica
9 2 (1.40%) Talend
10 1 (0.70%) Adaptive Insights
10 1 (0.70%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.70%) Oracle
10 1 (0.70%) Sage