Placement Programme

2026 UK Placement Programme (London / Belfast)

Department: Placement Programme

Employment Type: Vollzeit

Location: London, UK

Oxford Economics is the world's foremost independent economic advisory firm. We have a fantastic opportunity for hard‑working economics / finance students to join our team in the United Kingdom on a one year industrial placement. Positions are available on the following teams:
Macro Forecasting & Analysis, Cities & Regions, Global Industry, Scenarios & Macro Modelling, Data Team, Macro Consulting, Economic Impact, Economic Footprint & Sustainability, and Tourism Economics.

We have an opportunity for successful candidates to gain experience within areas related to their degree subject. Our students will work closely with our experienced team of economists and take on some responsibility for analysis, country forecasting and econometrics. By joining our teams, you will achieve an in‑depth practical knowledge related to your degree subject.

Placement positions are available in the following areas of the business:

Using the Oxford Economics Global Economic Model, the macro forecasting and analysis team produces forecasts for GDP, inflation, interest rates and hundreds of other indicators for more than 200 countries updated twice a month. The team also produces written analysis on the implications of the latest economic data and policy news, and in‑depth research on the critical issues that will shape the performance of economies and financial markets.

Positions are available within the Macro Strategy and Emerging Markets, Real Estate, and Eurozone teams, situated in our award winning Macro and Investor Services division. You should have a particular interest in macroeconomics, quantitative analysis and financial markets.

More detail on the positions can be found below.

National‑level economic analysis provides only a partial guide to the dynamics unfolding in the world’s major urban centres. Our unique suite of forecasting services covers over 8,000 cities and regions across the world, providing regularly updated data, forecasts and analysis for each location. Our city consultants also work in the areas of urban and regional development, bespoke model building and location benchmarking.

As a placement student in the cities team, you will assist in producing these regional forecasts, as well as supporting our economists in developing the quality of our services. This could include contributing to written reports or exploring novel approaches to data estimation, such as using satellite imagery to estimate regional activity. Over the course of the year, students will gain a deeper understanding of regional economics and how city performance differs from the macroeconomy, developing technical skills across the MS office suite, Eviews and the mapping software QGIS in the process.

Our team comprises of economists who are each focused on a particular sector, such as energy generation and renewables, across the countries that we cover.

The role of the placement student on our team is to provide support to the economists, forecast their own industries and contribute to monthly and quarterly reports. As the year progresses, placement students are given more interesting work, including forecasting some small macroeconomic countries so long as they perform well in producing work and supporting the economists with work that has a high attention to detail.

The placement student is assigned a sector to forecast every quarter and they contribute with write‑ups about their sector in our monthly and quarterly publications.

Our commodities team is also supported on a monthly basis by the placement student. The industry team is involved in a number of regular and bespoke consultancy projects for a range of large industrial firms and trade associations and our placement student is typically required to help with report writing and analysis, for example, previous placement students made a significant contribution in supporting our economists for our flagship Global Construction reports and were cited within the publication while others have been able to write the front page piece of our…