MiFID Contract Job Trends in Central London

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring MiFID skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 120 136
Rank change year-on-year +3 +16 +54
Contract jobs citing MiFID 10 12 11
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.51% 0.50% 0.38%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.62% 3.25% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 9
10th Percentile £510 £440 £603
25th Percentile £525 - £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £750
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -33.33% +25.00%
75th Percentile £725 £538 £850
90th Percentile £892 £665 £910
London median daily rate £630 £625 £740
% change year-on-year +0.80% -15.54% +13.85%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Central London

MiFID 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 382 369 453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 19.58% 15.41% 15.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 198 340
10th Percentile £319 £336 £400
25th Percentile £418 £450 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £676 £650 £700
90th Percentile £825 £752 £810
London median daily rate £525 £550 £555
% change year-on-year -4.55% -0.90% -1.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 1
10th Percentile £26.38 - -
25th Percentile £26.55 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £34.24 £35.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -51.72% +249.40%
75th Percentile £40.81 - £73.75
90th Percentile £66.35 - -
London median hourly rate £31.50 £37.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -16.01% +15.38% +14.04%

MiFID
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MiFID relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

MiFID job vacancy trend in Central London

MiFID
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing MiFID.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing MiFID

MiFID
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MiFID in Central London over the 6 months to 1 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MiFID in Central London

MiFID
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 MiFID within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 December 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 +1 8 £700 +40.00% 5
City of Westminster - 2 £600 -
MiFID
London

MiFID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Aladdin
1 1 (10.00%) Fidessa
1 1 (10.00%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Run
1 1 (10.00%) Figma
1 1 (10.00%) GCP
1 1 (10.00%) GitHub
1 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Financial Institution
3 2 (20.00%) Front Office
3 2 (20.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Legal
4 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) MiFID Business Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Business Development Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) C# Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Charles River Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Charles River Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Charles River Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Development Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Development Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Regulatory Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Regulatory Reporting Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Delivery Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Transformation Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (10.00%) FastAPI
2 1 (10.00%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (10.00%) LangGraph
2 1 (10.00%) Playwright
2 1 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (10.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Derivative
1 2 (20.00%) Hedge funds
2 1 (10.00%) ASIC
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (10.00%) Genomics
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Life Science
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) Asset Management
3 2 (20.00%) Change Management
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Regulatory Change
3 2 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (10.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (10.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (10.00%) Impact Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (10.00%) Multithreaded Programming
4 1 (10.00%) Order Management
4 1 (10.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (10.00%) Transcriptomics
4 1 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (10.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) EMIR
2 1 (10.00%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Charles River
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Portware