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 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 120 148
Rank change year-on-year +6 +28 +42
Contract jobs citing MiFID 16 8 12
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.86% 0.35% 0.40%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.29% 2.13% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 10
10th Percentile £518 £423 £699
25th Percentile £638 £456 £750
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £525 £775
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -32.26% +29.17%
75th Percentile £725 £644 £850
90th Percentile £807 £708 £905
London median daily rate £700 £625 £750
% change year-on-year +12.00% -16.67% +15.38%

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 373 375 456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 19.94% 16.26% 15.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 210 345
10th Percentile £325 £350 £375
25th Percentile £416 £450 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £695
90th Percentile £829 £750 £812
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £26.54 - -
25th Percentile £29.54 - -
Median hourly rate £34.48 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -1.49% - -
75th Percentile £46.13 - -
90th Percentile £69.55 - -
London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -2.86% +7.69% +31.10%

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 28 October 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 28 October 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 +10 15 £700 +33.33% 9
City of Westminster - 1 £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 5 (31.25%) Aladdin
2 1 (6.25%) Fidessa
2 1 (6.25%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) Azure
1 1 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (6.25%) Cloud Run
1 1 (6.25%) Figma
1 1 (6.25%) GCP
1 1 (6.25%) GitHub
1 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
1 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 13 (81.25%) Finance
2 11 (68.75%) Social Skills
3 9 (56.25%) Front Office
4 2 (12.50%) Banking
4 2 (12.50%) Financial Institution
4 2 (12.50%) Investment Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Legal
5 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
5 1 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Analyst
1 9 (56.25%) Business Analyst
2 8 (50.00%) Consultant
2 8 (50.00%) Lead
2 8 (50.00%) Lead Consultant
3 7 (43.75%) Lead Business Analyst
4 6 (37.50%) Business Consultant
5 4 (25.00%) Charles River Consultant
6 3 (18.75%) Business Development Analyst
6 3 (18.75%) Business Development Consultant
6 3 (18.75%) Charles River Analyst
6 3 (18.75%) Charles River Business Analyst
6 3 (18.75%) Development Analyst
6 3 (18.75%) Development Consultant
7 2 (12.50%) Senior
8 1 (6.25%) C# Architect
8 1 (6.25%) Senior Delivery Manager
8 1 (6.25%) Senior Transformation Manager
8 1 (6.25%) SimCorp Analyst
8 1 (6.25%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
2 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
2 1 (6.25%) FastAPI
2 1 (6.25%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (6.25%) LangGraph
2 1 (6.25%) Playwright
2 1 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (6.25%) React
2 1 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Derivative
2 1 (6.25%) ASIC
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Fixed Income
2 1 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (6.25%) Genomics
2 1 (6.25%) Hedge funds
2 1 (6.25%) Life Science
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Agile
1 11 (68.75%) Data Analysis
2 9 (56.25%) Asset Management
2 9 (56.25%) Change Management
2 9 (56.25%) Requirements Gathering
3 8 (50.00%) Business Analysis
3 8 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 8 (50.00%) GAP Analysis
3 8 (50.00%) Portfolio Management
3 8 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 8 (50.00%) Project Management
3 8 (50.00%) Scrum
3 8 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (50.00%) System Testing
3 8 (50.00%) Validation
4 5 (31.25%) Risk Management
5 2 (12.50%) DevOps
5 2 (12.50%) Regulatory Change
6 1 (6.25%) Containerisation
6 1 (6.25%) Impact Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (68.75%) EMIR
2 1 (6.25%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) Charles River
3 1 (6.25%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Portware
3 1 (6.25%) SimCorp