Summer Internship, Consulting, Economics, Belfast 2025

Economics Consulting In Economics Consulting you’ll advise high‑profile clients in the public and private sectors, providing economic insights and evidence to help inform their business decisions and shape their organisations. Our work addresses the most complex business and policy issues facing our clients, whether it’s navigating competition and commercial disputes; shaping efficient and competitive markets; providing macroeconomic forecasts; or appraising, framing and delivering big investments.

What You'll Do

As an economist you’ll be able to work across our five key propositions, including i) Economic Insight and Market Edge, ii) Business Case Evaluation and Policy Appraisal, iii) Infrastructure Economics, iv) Behavioural Economics and v) Competition Pricing and Digital Markets. You'll typically find yourself in project teams of anywhere from 2 to 15 or more people, often with PwC teams from other areas of Consulting, Lines of Service, and even other countries. You’ll undertake cutting-edge economic analysis whilst engaging with executives from the world’s top organisations, learning how to present and communicate your findings with impact. You will also have the opportunity to work on public thought leadership pieces that focus on topics as diverse as quantifying the impact of increasing female participation in the workforce to assessing the possible future role of drones on the UK economy. Our work receives attraction and has been regularly featured in national newspapers and on the news. We’ll monitor your development so you know how you're doing. Throughout your internship or graduate programme you'll be given guidance and support to help you be ready for the next step in your career.

What You'll Gain

Join us and learn about our business, build your networks and work alongside specialists in your chosen business area. You’ll receive on the job training that will prepare you for work on client projects to give you the best insight into what we do and what really matters to our clients, the economy and the wider community. Our internships are designed to give you the chance to launch the start of your career and, based on performance, the opportunity to join one of our Graduate Programmes after you graduate. Graduate offers will be for the same office and business area in which you completed your internship.

What You Need

You’ll need to be in your penultimate year of an undergraduate or postgraduate degree; or You’ll need to be in your final year of an undergraduate degree with a one year postgraduate place confirmed; and You'll need to have achieved or be on track to pass an undergraduate degree or above in an Economics related subject (with a minimum 50% Economics module coverage) . We determine whether you're on course to pass based on the grades you achieved in your last completed year of academic study.

When To Apply

Once you have submitted your application you'll have seven days to complete the online test, this is the first stage of our recruitment process. Applications for this role may close early should we receive a high volume of interest so we recommend prompt application to avoid disappointment.

To be eligible to be made an offer for a graduate role post this internship you must hold your own right to work in the UK which you will need to maintain for the duration of your employment.