MiFID Jobs in England

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for MiFID skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited MiFID over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 829 853 1019
Rank change year-on-year +24 +166 -255
Permanent jobs citing MiFID 15 94 128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.018% 0.10% 0.097%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.13% 0.53% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 7 71 94
10th Percentile £68,500 £53,750 £57,000
25th Percentile £76,250 £70,735 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £85,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% -2.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £105,625 £97,500 £114,375
90th Percentile £119,500 £108,750 £138,750
UK median annual salary £91,250 £85,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year +7.35% -2.86% +6.06%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 11,842 17,755 21,849
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.90% 19.27% 16.47%
Number of salaries quoted 8,349 8,221 11,834
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +3.77%

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
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for MiFID in England

MiFID
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing MiFID in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for MiFID in England

MiFID
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MiFID within the England region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +46 12 £98,750 +16.18% 43
North West - 2 - -
North of England - 2 - -
South East - 1 £75,000 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) WhatsApp
3 1 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 14 (93.33%) Finance
2 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (33.33%) Front Office
4 4 (26.67%) Banking
5 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (13.33%) Investment Banking
6 2 (13.33%) Law
6 2 (13.33%) Legal
6 2 (13.33%) Marketing
7 1 (6.67%) Advertising
7 1 (6.67%) Back Office
7 1 (6.67%) French Language
7 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Business Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Operations Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Operations Business Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Python Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Back Office Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst Team Leader
5 1 (6.67%) C# Software Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Information Officer
5 1 (6.67%) Information Security Officer
5 1 (6.67%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Business Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Risk Officer
5 1 (6.67%) Security Officer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Senior C# Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) FIX Protocol
1 4 (26.67%) HTML
1 4 (26.67%) React
1 4 (26.67%) REST
2 3 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (20.00%) CSS
2 3 (20.00%) FastAPI
2 3 (20.00%) Kafka
2 3 (20.00%) NumPy
2 3 (20.00%) Pandas
2 3 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (20.00%) Spring
2 3 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.67%) .NET Framework
3 1 (6.67%) jQuery
3 1 (6.67%) KnockoutJS
3 1 (6.67%) QuickFIX
3 1 (6.67%) WCF
3 1 (6.67%) Web Services
3 1 (6.67%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Hedge funds
2 2 (13.33%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (6.67%) ASIC
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) Derivative
3 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (6.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Agile
1 5 (33.33%) Analytics
2 3 (20.00%) Business Analysis
2 3 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 3 (20.00%) Data Analytics
2 3 (20.00%) Fintech
2 3 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
2 3 (20.00%) Migration
2 3 (20.00%) OO
2 3 (20.00%) Project Management
2 3 (20.00%) RAD
2 3 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (13.33%) Anti-Money Laundering
3 2 (13.33%) Business Case
3 2 (13.33%) Coaching
3 2 (13.33%) PRINCE2
3 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (13.33%) Quantitative Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Regulatory Change
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) Clojure
2 3 (20.00%) Groovy
2 3 (20.00%) Java
2 3 (20.00%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) Scala
3 2 (13.33%) C#
4 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) CISA
2 1 (6.67%) CISM
2 1 (6.67%) CISSP
2 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (53.33%) EMIR
2 2 (13.33%) QA
2 2 (13.33%) UCITS
3 1 (6.67%) Basel II
3 1 (6.67%) COBIT
3 1 (6.67%) Dodd-Frank
3 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (6.67%) NIST
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Bloomberg
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (20.00%) Reuters