EMIR Contracts in Central London

European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring EMIR skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited EMIR over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 128 154
Rank change year-on-year +9 +26 +40
Contract jobs citing EMIR 15 6 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.73% 0.26% 0.36%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.93% 1.57% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 2 11
10th Percentile £524 £683 £638
25th Percentile £596 £694 £697
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £725 £750
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £725 £744 £825
90th Percentile £734 £748 £850
London median daily rate £630 £708 £738
% change year-on-year -10.95% -4.07% +3.51%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Central London

EMIR falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 382 383 503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 18.48% 16.75% 14.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 255 374
10th Percentile £338 £363 £383
25th Percentile £425 £463 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £689 £650 £713
90th Percentile £812 £764 £825
London median daily rate £525 £550 £573
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.93% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 1
10th Percentile £22.45 £18.40 -
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.00 -
Median hourly rate £34.48 £23.80 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.87% -4.80% -39.76%
75th Percentile £45.62 £26.56 -
90th Percentile £69.55 £36.87 -
London median hourly rate £34.48 £26.62 £33.46
% change year-on-year +29.53% -20.44% +21.67%

EMIR
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing EMIR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for EMIR in Central London

EMIR
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing EMIR in Central London.

Daily rate trend for EMIR in Central London

EMIR
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing EMIR in Central London over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for EMIR in Central London

EMIR
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing EMIR within the Central London region over the 6 months to 2 August 2025. 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
City of London +8 15 £700 -3.45% 3
EMIR
London

EMIR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Aladdin
2 1 (6.67%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
1 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
1 1 (6.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (80.00%) Finance
1 12 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (66.67%) Front Office
3 3 (20.00%) Back Office
4 2 (13.33%) Banking
4 2 (13.33%) Investment Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
5 1 (6.67%) Legal
5 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Analyst
2 8 (53.33%) Business Analyst
2 8 (53.33%) Consultant
2 8 (53.33%) Lead
2 8 (53.33%) Lead Consultant
3 7 (46.67%) Lead Business Analyst
4 6 (40.00%) Business Consultant
5 4 (26.67%) Charles River Consultant
6 3 (20.00%) Business Development Analyst
6 3 (20.00%) Business Development Consultant
6 3 (20.00%) Charles River Analyst
6 3 (20.00%) Charles River Business Analyst
6 3 (20.00%) Developer
6 3 (20.00%) Development Analyst
6 3 (20.00%) Development Consultant
7 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (13.33%) Senior
8 1 (6.67%) Senior Delivery Manager
8 1 (6.67%) Senior Transformation Manager
8 1 (6.67%) SimCorp Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) .NET
2 2 (13.33%) React
3 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (6.67%) Kafka
3 1 (6.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Derivative
1 2 (13.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (6.67%) Equities
2 1 (6.67%) Fixed Income
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Agile
1 9 (60.00%) Asset Management
1 9 (60.00%) Project Management
1 9 (60.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 8 (53.33%) Business Analysis
2 8 (53.33%) Change Management
2 8 (53.33%) Data Analysis
2 8 (53.33%) End-to-End Testing
2 8 (53.33%) GAP Analysis
2 8 (53.33%) Portfolio Management
2 8 (53.33%) Project Delivery
2 8 (53.33%) Scrum
2 8 (53.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (53.33%) System Testing
2 8 (53.33%) Validation
3 6 (40.00%) Risk Management
4 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (13.33%) Investment Management
4 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) SQL
2 4 (26.67%) C#
3 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
4 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.67%) Python
4 1 (6.67%) Ruby
4 1 (6.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (93.33%) MiFID
2 1 (6.67%) Dodd-Frank
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (26.67%) Charles River
3 1 (6.67%) Bloomberg
3 1 (6.67%) CQG
3 1 (6.67%) ION Trading
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) Reuters
3 1 (6.67%) SimCorp