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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 107 134
Rank change year-on-year -27 +27 +22
Contract jobs citing MiFID 5 24 3
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.19% 1.17% 0.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.04% 6.42% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 18 2
10th Percentile £505 £513 £501
25th Percentile £550 £596 £539
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £633
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.67% -15.67%
75th Percentile £750 £725 £729
90th Percentile £758 £752 £770
London median daily rate £600 £700 £675
% change year-on-year -14.29% +3.70% -8.47%

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 483 374 413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 18.20% 18.24% 17.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 265 285
10th Percentile £351 £358 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £665 £690 £650
90th Percentile £775 £806 £771
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 6
10th Percentile £24.28 £22.45 £17.96
25th Percentile £26.19 £22.75 £20.44
Median hourly rate £42.50 £34.48 £23.40
Median % change year-on-year +23.26% +47.35% -6.40%
75th Percentile £63.25 £45.62 £25.92
90th Percentile £71.35 £69.55 £35.16
London median hourly rate £28.28 £34.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year -18.04% +44.96% -9.33%

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 10 July 2026.

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 10 July 2026. 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 -24 5 £600 -14.29% 3
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) dbt
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
1 2 (40.00%) Snowflake
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Front Office
3 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Charles River Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Compliance Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Finance Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) MiFID Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Credit Risk
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Analytics
1 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) Data Strategy
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (20.00%) Economics
2 1 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (20.00%) Investment Management
2 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) EMIR
2 2 (40.00%) GDPR
3 1 (20.00%) UCITS
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Charles River
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft