MiFID Contracts in England

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for MiFID skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited MiFID over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 466 587 670
Rank change year-on-year +121 +83 -106
Contract jobs citing MiFID 72 68 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.13% 0.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.37% 1.01% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 55 103
10th Percentile £400 £513 £513
25th Percentile £563 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £778 £750 £750
90th Percentile £800 £783 £800
UK median daily rate £700 £675 £650
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% +11.83%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

MiFID is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance 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 quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,258 6,740 9,340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.22% 13.35% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,343 4,585 6,397
10th Percentile £300 £276 £288
25th Percentile £408 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £524
Median % change year-on-year - +0.19% +10.32%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 206 260
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.94 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.05 £19.50 £16.50
Median hourly rate £22.04 £41.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.90% +50.91% +30.95%
75th Percentile £44.69 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.38 £79.88 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £20.61 £37.50 £28.50
% change year-on-year -45.05% +31.58% +35.39%

MiFID
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for MiFID in England

MiFID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for MiFID in England

MiFID
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MiFID in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MiFID in England

MiFID
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for MiFID in England

MiFID
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 MiFID within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 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 +110 70 £700 +3.70% 36
South East - 2 £750 -
MiFID
UK

MiFID
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 7 (9.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (9.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (9.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (9.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (8.33%) ION MarketView
2 2 (2.78%) Avolution ABACUS
3 1 (1.39%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 12 (16.67%) AWS
2 3 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (2.78%) npm
3 2 (2.78%) Yarn
4 1 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.11%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (1.39%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.28%) PostgreSQL
1 11 (15.28%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.94%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.78%) Big Data
4 1 (1.39%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.39%) KDB
4 1 (1.39%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (12.50%) TeamCity
2 8 (11.11%) JIRA
3 2 (2.78%) Babel
3 2 (2.78%) Git
3 2 (2.78%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (2.78%) webpack
General
1 33 (45.83%) Finance
2 31 (43.06%) Banking
3 18 (25.00%) Front Office
3 18 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 12 (16.67%) Investment Banking
5 11 (15.28%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.56%) Back Office
7 3 (4.17%) Prime Brokerage
8 2 (2.78%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 32 (44.44%) Business Analyst
2 21 (29.17%) Analyst
3 19 (26.39%) Developer
4 16 (22.22%) Regulatory Business Analyst
5 9 (12.50%) .NET Developer
5 9 (12.50%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
6 8 (11.11%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
7 7 (9.72%) Front Office Business Analyst
7 7 (9.72%) Report Developer
8 6 (8.33%) FIX Business Analyst
8 6 (8.33%) Regulatory Reporting Business Analyst
8 6 (8.33%) Report Analyst
9 5 (6.94%) Angular Developer
9 5 (6.94%) AWS Developer
9 5 (6.94%) C# .NET Developer
9 5 (6.94%) C# Developer
9 5 (6.94%) Java Developer
9 5 (6.94%) Project Manager
9 5 (6.94%) Senior
10 4 (5.56%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (16.67%) FIX Protocol
2 9 (12.50%) .NET
2 9 (12.50%) XML
3 7 (9.72%) AngularJS
4 5 (6.94%) .NET Core
4 5 (6.94%) ASP.NET
5 4 (5.56%) Node.js
6 2 (2.78%) Kafka
6 2 (2.78%) React
6 2 (2.78%) REST
7 1 (1.39%) CSS
7 1 (1.39%) Entity Framework
7 1 (1.39%) FastAPI
7 1 (1.39%) HTML
7 1 (1.39%) Material-UI
7 1 (1.39%) NumPy
7 1 (1.39%) Pandas
7 1 (1.39%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.39%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.39%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 14 (19.44%) Derivative
2 12 (16.67%) Fixed Income
3 8 (11.11%) Hedge funds
4 7 (9.72%) Equities
5 6 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (6.94%) Equity Derivative
7 4 (5.56%) Algorithms
8 2 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (1.39%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.39%) DTCC
9 1 (1.39%) EFT
9 1 (1.39%) Grid Computing
9 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.39%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.39%) Product Ownership
9 1 (1.39%) Synthetic Equity
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.11%) Unix
2 2 (2.78%) Linux
3 1 (1.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 11 (15.28%) Agile
3 10 (13.89%) TDD
4 9 (12.50%) Data Modelling
4 9 (12.50%) Electronic Trading
4 9 (12.50%) Microservices
5 8 (11.11%) Risk Management
6 7 (9.72%) Computer Science
6 7 (9.72%) UML
7 6 (8.33%) Full Stack Development
7 6 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (8.33%) SDLC
7 6 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
8 5 (6.94%) Data Lineage
8 5 (6.94%) Regtech
9 4 (5.56%) CI/CD
9 4 (5.56%) Clean Code
9 4 (5.56%) Decision-Making
9 4 (5.56%) Design Patterns
9 4 (5.56%) Regulatory Change
Programming Languages
1 34 (47.22%) SQL
2 13 (18.06%) C#
3 12 (16.67%) Java
4 4 (5.56%) C++
4 4 (5.56%) Python
5 3 (4.17%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.78%) C
6 2 (2.78%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.78%) Scala
7 1 (1.39%) Clojure
7 1 (1.39%) Groovy
7 1 (1.39%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.39%) Perl
7 1 (1.39%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (18.06%) Degree
2 4 (5.56%) Master's Degree
2 4 (5.56%) PhD
3 2 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.39%) ISEB
4 1 (1.39%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (61.11%) EMIR
2 28 (38.89%) Dodd-Frank
3 8 (11.11%) QA
4 4 (5.56%) Data Quality
5 3 (4.17%) FATCA
6 2 (2.78%) PMO
6 2 (2.78%) SEPA
7 1 (1.39%) GDPR
Vendors
1 12 (16.67%) Bloomberg
2 8 (11.11%) ION Trading
2 8 (11.11%) MarketAxess
2 8 (11.11%) Tradeweb
3 5 (6.94%) Oracle
4 2 (2.78%) Calypso
4 2 (2.78%) Murex
4 2 (2.78%) Refinitiv
4 2 (2.78%) Wallstreet Suite
5 1 (1.39%) Charles River
5 1 (1.39%) Progress
5 1 (1.39%) Reuters
5 1 (1.39%) Sybase