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 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 112 128
Rank change year-on-year -32 +16 +19
Contract jobs citing MiFID 4 14 6
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.16% 0.72% 0.26%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.79% 3.81% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 13 3
10th Percentile £498 £538 £423
25th Percentile £531 £675 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +33.33% -30.00%
75th Percentile £753 £725 £644
90th Percentile £759 £735 £708
London median daily rate £575 £688 £638
% change year-on-year -16.36% +7.84% -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 508 367 370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 20.43% 18.75% 16.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 384 253 227
10th Percentile £350 £313 £363
25th Percentile £462 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £755
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 4
10th Percentile £37.86 £22.60 £17.80
25th Percentile £40.93 £22.75 £20.50
Median hourly rate £46.66 £34.00 £23.40
Median % change year-on-year +37.24% +45.30% -
75th Percentile £53.02 £35.50 £24.64
90th Percentile £56.46 £63.15 £25.79
London median hourly rate £28.55 £34.00 £27.92
% change year-on-year -16.03% +21.78% -20.23%

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 8 September 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 8 September 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 -25 4 £650 -7.14% 5
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 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) dbt
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
1 2 (50.00%) Snowflake
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Charles River Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Compliance Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Finance Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Financial Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Financial Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Data Strategy
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Economics
2 1 (25.00%) Investment Management
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) EMIR
2 2 (50.00%) GDPR
3 1 (25.00%) UCITS
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Charles River
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft