Economics Contracts in England

Economics
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Economics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Economics over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 477 550 609
Rank change year-on-year +73 +59 -72
Contract jobs citing Economics 74 87 170
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.18% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.20% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 54 129
10th Percentile £355 £424 £323
25th Percentile £481 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year -12.07% +3.57% +10.24%
75th Percentile £850 £800 £800
90th Percentile - £850 £826
UK median daily rate £638 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -8.93% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 20
10th Percentile - £21.98 £14.10
25th Percentile £10.42 £24.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £17.22 £47.50 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -63.75% +143.34% -25.25%
75th Percentile £21.75 £52.75 £42.81
90th Percentile £26.50 £73.60 £51.95
UK median hourly rate £20.87 £47.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -56.07% +143.34% -25.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Economics is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,623 42,710 64,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.71% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,632 29,989 45,672
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,323 1,520 1,714
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.05 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

Economics
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Economics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Economics in England

Economics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Economics in England.

Daily rate trend for Economics in England

Economics
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Economics in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Economics in England

Economics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Economics in England.

Hourly rate trend for Economics in England

Economics
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Economics in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Economics in England

Economics
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Economics within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +88 57 £710 -5.33% 134
North West +22 4 £538 +11.98% 10
North of England +21 4 £538 +9.69% 17
South East -2 3 £224 -40.40% 18
South West - 3 £538 - 4
East of England +6 2 - - 14
Midlands +22 1 £475 -9.52% 11
West Midlands - 1 £475 - 6
Economics
UK

Economics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (5.41%) SAS
2 3 (4.05%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.70%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (8.11%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (6.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (4.05%) MS Visio
4 2 (2.70%) Stata
5 1 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.70%) SAP MDG
2 1 (1.35%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (1.35%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (1.35%) Loan IQ
2 1 (1.35%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.35%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.35%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (1.35%) SAP HCM
2 1 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.35%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 7 (9.46%) Azure
1 7 (9.46%) Power Platform
2 5 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (6.76%) npm
3 3 (4.05%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (4.05%) PowerApps
4 1 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.35%) Power Automate
4 1 (1.35%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.51%) Relational Database
2 7 (9.46%) Power BI
3 6 (8.11%) Tableau
4 2 (2.70%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.35%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.35%) Looker
5 1 (1.35%) Metadata
5 1 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.35%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 16 (21.62%) JIRA
2 9 (12.16%) Cypress.io
3 5 (6.76%) webpack
4 4 (5.41%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.70%) Jenkins
General
1 47 (63.51%) Social Skills
2 43 (58.11%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (24.32%) Finance
4 15 (20.27%) Front Office
5 9 (12.16%) Banking
6 6 (8.11%) Law
6 6 (8.11%) Marketing
7 5 (6.76%) Advertising
7 5 (6.76%) Legal
8 4 (5.41%) Investment Banking
8 4 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (4.05%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.70%) Digital Economy
10 2 (2.70%) German Language
10 2 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (2.70%) Publishing
10 2 (2.70%) Spanish Language
11 1 (1.35%) Back Office
11 1 (1.35%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 18 (24.32%) Developer
2 15 (20.27%) Analyst
3 13 (17.57%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 9 (12.16%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 9 (12.16%) React Developer
5 8 (10.81%) UI Developer
6 6 (8.11%) Technical Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) Angular Developer
7 5 (6.76%) Data Analyst
8 4 (5.41%) C# Developer
8 4 (5.41%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
8 4 (5.41%) Front Office Developer
8 4 (5.41%) Full Stack Developer
8 4 (5.41%) Full-Stack C# Developer
9 3 (4.05%) Architect
9 3 (4.05%) Data Scientist
9 3 (4.05%) Econometrician
9 3 (4.05%) Real Time Developer
9 3 (4.05%) Senior
9 3 (4.05%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (20.27%) React
2 10 (13.51%) Reactive Extensions
2 10 (13.51%) Redux
3 6 (8.11%) .NET
4 5 (6.76%) AngularJS
4 5 (6.76%) REST
4 5 (6.76%) RxJS
4 5 (6.76%) WebSockets
5 4 (5.41%) CSS
5 4 (5.41%) WPF
6 3 (4.05%) ADO
7 2 (2.70%) Java Concurrency
7 2 (2.70%) Kafka
7 2 (2.70%) Tkinter
8 1 (1.35%) JSON
8 1 (1.35%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.81%) Fixed Income
2 6 (8.11%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (5.41%) Credit Risk
3 4 (5.41%) Wiki
4 3 (4.05%) Derivative
4 3 (4.05%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.70%) Life Science
5 2 (2.70%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.70%) Market Risk
5 2 (2.70%) Social Media
6 1 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.35%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.35%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.35%) PMI
6 1 (1.35%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.35%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.35%) VLE
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (36.49%) Agile
2 24 (32.43%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (31.08%) Statistics
4 19 (25.68%) Computer Science
4 19 (25.68%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (22.97%) Roadmaps
6 16 (21.62%) Data Analysis
6 16 (21.62%) Mathematics
7 15 (20.27%) Analytics
7 15 (20.27%) Design Patterns
7 15 (20.27%) Electronic Trading
8 11 (14.86%) Data Science
9 10 (13.51%) DevOps
10 9 (12.16%) Project Management
10 9 (12.16%) Refactoring
10 9 (12.16%) Visualisation
11 8 (10.81%) Actionable Insight
11 8 (10.81%) Front End Development
11 8 (10.81%) Mentoring
12 7 (9.46%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 31 (41.89%) SQL
2 18 (24.32%) Python
3 15 (20.27%) TypeScript
4 13 (17.57%) C#
5 8 (10.81%) C++
6 6 (8.11%) VB.NET
6 6 (8.11%) VBA
7 5 (6.76%) JavaScript
7 5 (6.76%) R
8 3 (4.05%) Java
9 2 (2.70%) Haskell
9 2 (2.70%) Scala
10 1 (1.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 48 (64.86%) Degree
2 23 (31.08%) Master's Degree
3 13 (17.57%) PhD
4 6 (8.11%) Numerate Degree
5 5 (6.76%) Postgraduate
6 3 (4.05%) SC Cleared
6 3 (4.05%) Security Cleared
7 2 (2.70%) CBAP
7 2 (2.70%) MBA
8 1 (1.35%) APMP
8 1 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.35%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.35%) PMP
8 1 (1.35%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.76%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.70%) QA
3 1 (1.35%) GDPR
3 1 (1.35%) PMO
Vendors
1 4 (5.41%) SAP
2 3 (4.05%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.05%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.70%) Adobe
3 2 (2.70%) CA
3 2 (2.70%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.35%) Advent
4 1 (1.35%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.35%) Brandwatch
4 1 (1.35%) Google
4 1 (1.35%) Oracle
4 1 (1.35%) TikTok