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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 558 456 485
Rank change year-on-year -102 +29 +122
Contract jobs citing EMIR 26 29 57
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.064% 0.12% 0.15%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.38% 0.75% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 19 50
10th Percentile £260 £481 £400
25th Percentile £499 £513 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £875 £659 £784
90th Percentile £963 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £700 £588 £700
% change year-on-year +19.15% -16.07% -6.67%

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 6,841 3,871 5,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.95% 15.90% 14.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,462 2,485 3,383
10th Percentile £337 £268 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £600 £634 £638
90th Percentile £705 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 429 160 349
10th Percentile £14.02 £17.78 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.27 £13.18
Median hourly rate £30.58 £34.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +54.44% -47.06%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £79.17 £79.11 £67.38
UK median hourly rate £33.98 £34.50 £21.06
% change year-on-year -1.51% +63.84% -44.22%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -56 26 £700 +16.67% 4
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 (11.54%) Confluence
2 2 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Aladdin
2 1 (3.85%) Loan IQ
2 1 (3.85%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.54%) Azure
2 2 (7.69%) AWS
2 2 (7.69%) dbt
2 2 (7.69%) GCP
2 2 (7.69%) Snowflake
3 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) JIRA
General
1 23 (88.46%) Finance
2 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
3 8 (30.77%) Banking
4 5 (19.23%) Investment Banking
5 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (15.38%) Front Office
6 3 (11.54%) Back Office
7 2 (7.69%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (3.85%) French Language
8 1 (3.85%) German Language
8 1 (3.85%) Italian Language
8 1 (3.85%) Japanese Language
8 1 (3.85%) Legal
8 1 (3.85%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (76.92%) Analyst
2 16 (61.54%) Business Analyst
3 14 (53.85%) Report Analyst
4 11 (42.31%) Regulatory Business Analyst
5 9 (34.62%) Regulatory Reporting Business Analyst
6 7 (26.92%) Lead
7 6 (23.08%) Commodities Business Analyst
7 6 (23.08%) Lead Business Analyst
8 3 (11.54%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (11.54%) Technical Business Analyst
9 2 (7.69%) Business Support Analyst
9 2 (7.69%) Data Engineer
10 1 (3.85%) Asset Management Analyst
10 1 (3.85%) Asset Management Business Analyst
10 1 (3.85%) Investment Management Business Analyst
10 1 (3.85%) IT Analyst
10 1 (3.85%) MiFID Business Analyst
10 1 (3.85%) Risk Business Analyst
10 1 (3.85%) Senior Reporting Analyst
10 1 (3.85%) Senior Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) Kafka
1 2 (7.69%) Spring
1 2 (7.69%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.85%) .NET
2 1 (3.85%) .NET Core
2 1 (3.85%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.85%) RESTful
2 1 (3.85%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (42.31%) Derivative
2 5 (19.23%) Equities
3 3 (11.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (7.69%) ASIC
4 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.85%) Credit Risk
5 1 (3.85%) DTCC
5 1 (3.85%) Fixed Income
5 1 (3.85%) Market Risk
5 1 (3.85%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (30.77%) Project Management
2 7 (26.92%) Target Operating Model
3 6 (23.08%) Data Analysis
4 5 (19.23%) Regulatory Compliance
4 5 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (19.23%) Validation
5 4 (15.38%) Business Analysis
5 4 (15.38%) DevOps
5 4 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (11.54%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (11.54%) Regulatory Change
6 3 (11.54%) Roadmaps
6 3 (11.54%) Software Engineering
7 2 (7.69%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 2 (7.69%) CI/CD
7 2 (7.69%) End-to-End Testing
7 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (7.69%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 8 (30.77%) SQL
2 4 (15.38%) Python
3 3 (11.54%) Java
4 1 (3.85%) C#
4 1 (3.85%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (3.85%) CFA
1 1 (3.85%) Degree
1 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
1 1 (3.85%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (46.15%) MiFID
2 2 (7.69%) GDPR
3 1 (3.85%) AIFMD
3 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.85%) Dodd-Frank
3 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Calypso
1 3 (11.54%) Charles River
1 3 (11.54%) Murex
2 2 (7.69%) Bloomberg
2 2 (7.69%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.85%) Ab Initio
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) Refinitiv