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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 604 471 479
Rank change year-on-year -133 +8 +63
Contract jobs citing EMIR 25 46 48
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.055% 0.17% 0.14%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.31% 0.97% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 35 39
10th Percentile £433 £513 £500
25th Percentile £509 £544 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £675 £688
Median % change year-on-year -12.96% -1.82% -7.09%
75th Percentile £734 £738 £750
90th Percentile £875 £775 £818
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £688
% change year-on-year -7.69% -5.45% -7.09%

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 8,009 4,738 4,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.53% 17.20% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,085 3,095 2,705
10th Percentile £338 £285 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £610 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 552 230 255
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £10.95
25th Percentile £17.57 £18.59 £13.26
Median hourly rate £36.07 £31.64 £26.68
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% +18.59% -24.85%
75th Percentile £69.87 £64.69 £62.83
90th Percentile £80.00 £85.90 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.07 £29.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +22.27% +18.00% -28.57%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 -92 25 £588 -12.96% 33
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 (12.00%) Confluence
2 2 (8.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (8.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Aladdin
2 1 (4.00%) IntelliMatch
2 1 (4.00%) SimCorp Dimension
2 1 (4.00%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.00%) AWS
1 3 (12.00%) Azure
1 3 (12.00%) GCP
1 3 (12.00%) Snowflake
2 2 (8.00%) dbt
3 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (4.00%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Big Data
1 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (4.00%) Metadata
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) Git
General
1 18 (72.00%) Finance
2 12 (48.00%) Banking
3 9 (36.00%) Investment Banking
4 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
5 4 (16.00%) Front Office
6 2 (8.00%) Back Office
6 2 (8.00%) Financial Institution
7 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (4.00%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (4.00%) French Language
7 1 (4.00%) German Language
7 1 (4.00%) Italian Language
7 1 (4.00%) Japanese Language
7 1 (4.00%) Legal
7 1 (4.00%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (60.00%) Analyst
2 13 (52.00%) Business Analyst
3 10 (40.00%) Regulatory Business Analyst
4 9 (36.00%) Report Analyst
5 8 (32.00%) Regulatory Reporting Business Analyst
6 3 (12.00%) Commodities Business Analyst
6 3 (12.00%) Lead
6 3 (12.00%) Lead Business Analyst
7 2 (8.00%) Business Support Analyst
7 2 (8.00%) Data Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Operations Analyst
7 2 (8.00%) Operations Business Analyst
7 2 (8.00%) Technical Analyst
8 1 (4.00%) Asset Management Analyst
8 1 (4.00%) Asset Management Business Analyst
8 1 (4.00%) Asset Management Consultant
8 1 (4.00%) Finance Business Analyst
8 1 (4.00%) Investment Management Business Analyst
8 1 (4.00%) Senior
8 1 (4.00%) Senior Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) Kafka
1 2 (8.00%) Spring
1 2 (8.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.00%) Flask
2 1 (4.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Derivative
2 4 (16.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (8.00%) ASIC
3 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (8.00%) OTC Derivatives
4 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.00%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (4.00%) DTCC
4 1 (4.00%) Equities
4 1 (4.00%) Fixed Income
4 1 (4.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) Business Analysis
1 7 (28.00%) Data Analysis
1 7 (28.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 6 (24.00%) Project Management
2 6 (24.00%) Regulatory Change
2 6 (24.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (24.00%) Validation
3 5 (20.00%) Target Operating Model
4 4 (16.00%) Agile
4 4 (16.00%) Asset Management
4 4 (16.00%) GAP Analysis
5 3 (12.00%) AI
5 3 (12.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (12.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (12.00%) Software Engineering
6 2 (8.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 2 (8.00%) Data Engineering
6 2 (8.00%) Generative AI
6 2 (8.00%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) SQL
2 3 (12.00%) Python
3 2 (8.00%) Java
4 1 (4.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.00%) CFA
2 1 (4.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.00%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (60.00%) MiFID
2 2 (8.00%) AIFMD
2 2 (8.00%) GDPR
2 2 (8.00%) QA
3 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.00%) Dodd-Frank
3 1 (4.00%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Charles River
2 3 (12.00%) Calypso
3 2 (8.00%) Bloomberg
3 2 (8.00%) Murex
3 2 (8.00%) Oracle
4 1 (4.00%) Avaloq
4 1 (4.00%) Databricks
4 1 (4.00%) FactSet
4 1 (4.00%) FNZ
4 1 (4.00%) Informatica
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.00%) SimCorp
4 1 (4.00%) StatPro
4 1 (4.00%) Talend
4 1 (4.00%) Temenos