MiFID Contracts in Central London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring MiFID skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MiFID over the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 129 159
Rank change year-on-year +17 +30 +29
Contract jobs citing MiFID 20 5 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.97% 0.22% 0.44%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.33% 1.29% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 3 14
10th Percentile £513 £527 £620
25th Percentile £590 £604 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £725 £774 £838
90th Percentile £730 £788 £885
London median daily rate £675 £650 £740
% change year-on-year +3.85% -12.16% +13.51%

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 375 388 502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 18.14% 16.84% 13.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 259 372
10th Percentile £338 £363 £378
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 £810 £767 £825
London median daily rate £525 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% +2.73%
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% -26.47%
75th Percentile £45.62 £26.56 -
90th Percentile £69.55 £36.87 -
London median hourly rate £34.48 £26.62 £40.23
% change year-on-year +29.53% -33.83% +46.29%

MiFID
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for MiFID in Central London

MiFID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for MiFID in Central London

MiFID
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MiFID in Central London over the 6 months to 27 July 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 27 July 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 +23 20 £700 -6.67% 5
MiFID
London

MiFID
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Aladdin
2 2 (10.00%) Fidessa
3 1 (5.00%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Git
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
1 1 (5.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (80.00%) Finance
2 15 (75.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (50.00%) Front Office
4 5 (25.00%) Banking
4 5 (25.00%) Investment Banking
5 4 (20.00%) Financial Institution
6 3 (15.00%) Back Office
7 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (10.00%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (10.00%) Retail
7 2 (10.00%) Retail Banking
8 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Analyst
2 8 (40.00%) Business Analyst
2 8 (40.00%) Consultant
2 8 (40.00%) Lead
2 8 (40.00%) Lead Consultant
3 7 (35.00%) Lead Business Analyst
4 6 (30.00%) Business Consultant
5 4 (20.00%) Charles River Consultant
6 3 (15.00%) Business Development Analyst
6 3 (15.00%) Business Development Consultant
6 3 (15.00%) Charles River Analyst
6 3 (15.00%) Charles River Business Analyst
6 3 (15.00%) Developer
6 3 (15.00%) Development Analyst
6 3 (15.00%) Development Consultant
6 3 (15.00%) MiFID Specialist
7 2 (10.00%) Compliance Specialist
7 2 (10.00%) Electronic Trading Specialist
7 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (10.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) .NET
2 2 (10.00%) React
2 2 (10.00%) REST
3 1 (5.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (5.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (5.00%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (5.00%) Kafka
3 1 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Derivative
1 3 (15.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (10.00%) Fixed Income
2 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Equities
3 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Agile
2 10 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 10 (50.00%) Validation
3 9 (45.00%) Asset Management
3 9 (45.00%) Data Analysis
3 9 (45.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 8 (40.00%) Business Analysis
4 8 (40.00%) Change Management
4 8 (40.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 8 (40.00%) GAP Analysis
4 8 (40.00%) Portfolio Management
4 8 (40.00%) Project Delivery
4 8 (40.00%) Project Management
4 8 (40.00%) Scrum
4 8 (40.00%) System Testing
5 6 (30.00%) Risk Management
6 3 (15.00%) Wealth Management
7 2 (10.00%) Algorithmic Trading
7 2 (10.00%) DevOps
7 2 (10.00%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) SQL
2 5 (25.00%) C#
3 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (10.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.00%) Python
4 1 (5.00%) Ruby
4 1 (5.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
1 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (70.00%) EMIR
2 1 (5.00%) Dodd-Frank
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) Charles River
3 1 (5.00%) Bloomberg
3 1 (5.00%) CQG
3 1 (5.00%) ION Trading
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) Portware
3 1 (5.00%) Reuters
3 1 (5.00%) SimCorp