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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 467 479 503
Rank change year-on-year +12 +24 +216
Contract jobs citing EMIR 45 49 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.15% 0.21%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.94% 1.14% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 39 80
10th Percentile £513 £500 £550
25th Percentile £556 £563 £624
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £650 £739
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -12.01% +3.68%
75th Percentile £741 £750 £760
90th Percentile £775 £810 £810
UK median daily rate £688 £650 £739
% change year-on-year +5.77% -12.01% +5.54%

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 4,786 4,309 5,895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.22% 13.08% 14.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,125 2,575 4,009
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £400 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £657
90th Percentile £725 £762 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 227 215 227
10th Percentile £15.13 £12.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.96 £15.22 £19.47
Median hourly rate £32.50 £31.12 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.43% -17.01% +66.67%
75th Percentile £61.13 £64.24 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.85 £70.00 £78.36
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £35.63
% change year-on-year +9.09% -22.82% +54.91%

EMIR
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing EMIR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for EMIR 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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
London +21 44 £700 - 18
Midlands -18 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - -
EMIR
UK

EMIR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (6.67%) Confluence
2 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Endur
2 4 (8.89%) Aladdin
3 3 (6.67%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 6 (13.33%) Azure
2 4 (8.89%) AWS
3 2 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.22%) Power BI
2 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (11.11%) JIRA
2 2 (4.44%) Git
2 2 (4.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 26 (57.78%) Social Skills
2 24 (53.33%) Finance
3 15 (33.33%) Front Office
4 9 (20.00%) Banking
5 8 (17.78%) Back Office
6 7 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (11.11%) Investment Banking
8 2 (4.44%) Financial Institution
8 2 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (2.22%) Legal
Job Titles
1 32 (71.11%) Business Analyst
2 31 (68.89%) Analyst
3 15 (33.33%) Regulatory Business Analyst
4 8 (17.78%) Consultant
4 8 (17.78%) Lead
4 8 (17.78%) Lead Consultant
5 7 (15.56%) Lead Business Analyst
5 7 (15.56%) Regulatory Reporting Business Analyst
6 6 (13.33%) Business Consultant
7 5 (11.11%) Developer
8 4 (8.89%) Charles River Consultant
8 4 (8.89%) ETRM Business Analyst
8 4 (8.89%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
8 4 (8.89%) Technical Analyst
8 4 (8.89%) Technical Business Analyst
9 3 (6.67%) Business Development Consultant
9 3 (6.67%) Charles River Analyst
9 3 (6.67%) Charles River Business Analyst
9 3 (6.67%) FX Business Analyst
9 3 (6.67%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.78%) XML
2 5 (11.11%) .NET
3 4 (8.89%) FpML
4 3 (6.67%) Kafka
4 3 (6.67%) React
5 2 (4.44%) JSON
5 2 (4.44%) XSLT
6 1 (2.22%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.22%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.22%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) DTCC
1 7 (15.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (11.11%) Fixed Income
3 4 (8.89%) Derivative
4 3 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 3 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (4.44%) Algorithms
5 2 (4.44%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (4.44%) Equities
6 1 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.22%) Credit Derivative
6 1 (2.22%) Credit Risk
6 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.22%) Hedge funds
6 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.22%) Market Risk
6 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.22%) OTC Derivatives
6 1 (2.22%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (46.67%) Agile
2 13 (28.89%) Business Analysis
2 13 (28.89%) Project Delivery
2 13 (28.89%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (26.67%) Regulatory Change
3 12 (26.67%) Requirements Gathering
3 12 (26.67%) Validation
4 11 (24.44%) Data Analysis
4 11 (24.44%) GAP Analysis
4 11 (24.44%) Project Management
4 11 (24.44%) Scrum
5 10 (22.22%) Asset Management
5 10 (22.22%) Change Management
5 10 (22.22%) Risk Management
6 8 (17.78%) End-to-End Testing
6 8 (17.78%) Portfolio Management
6 8 (17.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 8 (17.78%) System Testing
7 7 (15.56%) ETRM
7 7 (15.56%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (57.78%) SQL
2 7 (15.56%) C#
3 3 (6.67%) T-SQL
4 2 (4.44%) C++
4 2 (4.44%) Python
4 2 (4.44%) VBA
4 2 (4.44%) VC++
Qualifications
1 2 (4.44%) Degree
2 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.22%) CSPO
2 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (86.67%) MiFID
2 6 (13.33%) Dodd-Frank
3 2 (4.44%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.44%) QA
4 1 (2.22%) Basel III
Vendors
1 10 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.11%) Oracle
3 4 (8.89%) Charles River
4 3 (6.67%) CQG
4 3 (6.67%) TOWER Software
5 2 (4.44%) Bloomberg
6 1 (2.22%) OpenLink
6 1 (2.22%) Refinitiv
6 1 (2.22%) SimCorp
6 1 (2.22%) Trayport