EMIR Contract Job Trends in England

European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring EMIR skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 592 453 500
Rank change year-on-year -139 +47 +80
Contract jobs citing EMIR 22 46 53
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.050% 0.18% 0.14%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.30% 1.09% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 35 41
10th Percentile £425 £513 £500
25th Percentile £550 £516 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -5.41%
75th Percentile £875 £731 £750
90th Percentile £925 £772 £810
UK median daily rate £700 £640 £700
% change year-on-year +9.38% -8.57% -5.41%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 7,445 4,209 5,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.01% 16.50% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,803 2,726 3,143
10th Percentile £350 £270 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £712 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 496 183 380
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £11.00
25th Percentile £19.33 £21.60 £13.18
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.50 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +34.41% -42.11%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.00 £51.75
90th Percentile £82.08 £84.88 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.07 £31.57 £23.80
% change year-on-year +14.27% +32.63% -36.95%

EMIR
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

EMIR job vacancy trend in England

EMIR
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing EMIR.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing EMIR

EMIR
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing EMIR in England over the 6 months to 30 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for EMIR in England

EMIR
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing EMIR.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing EMIR

EMIR
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing EMIR within the England region over the 6 months to 30 June 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
London -109 22 £700 +7.69% 7
EMIR
UK

EMIR
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 3 (13.64%) Confluence
2 2 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Aladdin
2 1 (4.55%) IntelliMatch
2 1 (4.55%) Loan IQ
2 1 (4.55%) SimCorp Dimension
2 1 (4.55%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) Azure
2 3 (13.64%) AWS
2 3 (13.64%) GCP
2 3 (13.64%) Snowflake
3 2 (9.09%) dbt
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.55%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
1 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) JIRA
General
1 18 (81.82%) Finance
2 9 (40.91%) Banking
3 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
4 5 (22.73%) Investment Banking
5 4 (18.18%) Front Office
6 1 (4.55%) Back Office
6 1 (4.55%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.55%) Financial Institution
6 1 (4.55%) French Language
6 1 (4.55%) German Language
6 1 (4.55%) Italian Language
6 1 (4.55%) Japanese Language
6 1 (4.55%) Legal
6 1 (4.55%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (68.18%) Analyst
2 14 (63.64%) Business Analyst
3 11 (50.00%) Regulatory Business Analyst
4 10 (45.45%) Report Analyst
5 9 (40.91%) Regulatory Reporting Business Analyst
6 4 (18.18%) Commodities Business Analyst
6 4 (18.18%) Lead
6 4 (18.18%) Lead Business Analyst
7 2 (9.09%) Business Support Analyst
7 2 (9.09%) Data Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Operations Analyst
7 2 (9.09%) Operations Business Analyst
8 1 (4.55%) Business Manager
8 1 (4.55%) Business Project Manager
8 1 (4.55%) Implementation Analyst
8 1 (4.55%) Project Analyst
8 1 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
8 1 (4.55%) Senior Technical Analyst
8 1 (4.55%) Technical Analyst
8 1 (4.55%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) Kafka
1 2 (9.09%) Spring
1 2 (9.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Derivative
2 3 (13.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (9.09%) ASIC
3 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.55%) DTCC
4 1 (4.55%) Equities
4 1 (4.55%) Fixed Income
4 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.55%) OTC Derivatives
4 1 (4.55%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) User Acceptance Testing
2 7 (31.82%) Project Management
3 6 (27.27%) Business Analysis
3 6 (27.27%) Data Analysis
3 6 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (27.27%) Target Operating Model
4 4 (18.18%) Asset Management
4 4 (18.18%) Regulatory Change
4 4 (18.18%) Validation
5 3 (13.64%) Agile
5 3 (13.64%) DevOps
5 3 (13.64%) GAP Analysis
6 2 (9.09%) AI
6 2 (9.09%) Analytics
6 2 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (9.09%) Data Engineering
6 2 (9.09%) Investment Management
6 2 (9.09%) Software Engineering
6 2 (9.09%) Test Management
6 2 (9.09%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) SQL
2 3 (13.64%) Python
3 2 (9.09%) Java
4 1 (4.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) CFA
2 1 (4.55%) ISTQB
2 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.55%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (50.00%) MiFID
2 2 (9.09%) AIFMD
2 2 (9.09%) GDPR
3 1 (4.55%) Dodd-Frank
3 1 (4.55%) QA
3 1 (4.55%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Charles River
2 3 (13.64%) Bloomberg
2 3 (13.64%) Calypso
2 3 (13.64%) Murex
3 1 (4.55%) Ab Initio
3 1 (4.55%) Avaloq
3 1 (4.55%) Databricks
3 1 (4.55%) FactSet
3 1 (4.55%) FNZ
3 1 (4.55%) Informatica
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) Refinitiv
3 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.55%) SimCorp
3 1 (4.55%) StatPro
3 1 (4.55%) Talend
3 1 (4.55%) Temenos