EMIR Contract Job Trends in the City of London

European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring EMIR skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 109 120
Rank change year-on-year -12 +11 +57
Contract jobs citing EMIR 5 10 9
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.27% 0.54% 0.37%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.25% 3.33% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 8
10th Percentile £508 - £433
25th Percentile £513 - £622
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £713
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -29.82% +5.56%
75th Percentile £828 £519 £750
90th Percentile £831 £530 £758
Central London median daily rate £575 £500 £700
% change year-on-year +15.00% -28.57% +3.70%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
City of London

EMIR 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 401 300 388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 21.30% 16.17% 16.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 163 286
10th Percentile £363 £330 £380
25th Percentile £425 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £674
90th Percentile £825 £775 £750
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £20.94 - £25.05
25th Percentile £26.50 - £32.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 - £46.55
Median % change year-on-year - - +138.73%
75th Percentile £29.50 - £60.64
90th Percentile £33.10 - £68.50
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £28.75 £46.55
% change year-on-year -9.18% -38.24% +124.35%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

EMIR job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing EMIR.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing EMIR

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing EMIR in the City of London over the 6 months to 8 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for EMIR in the City of London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Summit
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
1 3 (60.00%) Front Office
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Law
3 1 (20.00%) Legal
3 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Qualitative Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Quantitative Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Python Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) XML
1 1 (20.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Derivative
2 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (20.00%) ASIC
2 1 (20.00%) Credit Derivative
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (20.00%) DTCC
2 1 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (20.00%) Hedge funds
2 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Regulatory Change
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Collateral Management
2 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Quantitative Research
2 2 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (20.00%) Monte Carlo Method
3 1 (20.00%) Multithreaded Programming
3 1 (20.00%) Multithreading
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Use Case
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
1 2 (40.00%) C++
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) VBA
2 1 (20.00%) VC++
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) MiFID
2 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) Dodd-Frank
2 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Bloomberg
2 1 (20.00%) Murex
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle