MiFID Contracts in England

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring MiFID skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MiFID over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 420 472 536
Rank change year-on-year +52 +64 +123
Contract jobs citing MiFID 83 61 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.30% 0.18% 0.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.76% 1.36% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 49 60
10th Percentile £493 £500 £513
25th Percentile £521 £563 £637
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £740
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -12.16% +13.85%
75th Percentile £725 £750 £775
90th Percentile £775 £802 £814
UK median daily rate £613 £650 £740
% change year-on-year -5.77% -12.16% +13.85%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

MiFID 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 4,724 4,478 6,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.01% 13.36% 13.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,086 2,816 4,269
10th Percentile £281 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £406 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% +1.90%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £656
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £501 £525
% change year-on-year -0.10% -4.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 281 224
10th Percentile £15.12 £10.95 £15.21
25th Percentile £18.20 £14.41 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -35.29% +74.54%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.45 £70.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £26.93 £25.60 £39.51
% change year-on-year +5.18% -35.21% +58.04%

MiFID
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for MiFID in England

MiFID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MiFID in England.

Daily rate trend for MiFID in England

MiFID
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MiFID in England over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MiFID in England

MiFID
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MiFID in England.

Hourly rate trend for MiFID in England

MiFID
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 MiFID within the England region over the 6 months to 2 August 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 +19 68 £663 +1.92% 62
North West - 7 £603 -
North of England - 7 £603 -
Midlands - 3 £443 -
East of England - 3 £400 -
East Midlands - 2 £443 -
West Midlands - 1 - -
MiFID
UK

MiFID
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 7 (8.43%) Confluence
2 1 (1.20%) Appian
Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (8.43%) Aladdin
1 7 (8.43%) Fidessa
1 7 (8.43%) Kondor
2 5 (6.02%) Endur
3 3 (3.61%) Actimize
3 3 (3.61%) thinkFolio
4 1 (1.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 19 (22.89%) Azure
2 13 (15.66%) AWS
3 5 (6.02%) GCP
3 5 (6.02%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (3.61%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (3.61%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (3.61%) Serverless
5 2 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.20%) Collibra
6 1 (1.20%) Lucidchart
6 1 (1.20%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (20.48%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.23%) Tableau
3 5 (6.02%) Power BI
4 4 (4.82%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.61%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.41%) Metadata
6 2 (2.41%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (8.43%) JIRA
2 3 (3.61%) Git
2 3 (3.61%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.20%) ERwin
3 1 (1.20%) PowerDesigner
General
1 53 (63.86%) Finance
2 47 (56.63%) Social Skills
3 25 (30.12%) Banking
3 25 (30.12%) Front Office
4 15 (18.07%) Investment Banking
5 13 (15.66%) Back Office
6 8 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (7.23%) Financial Institution
7 6 (7.23%) Legal
8 3 (3.61%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.61%) Retail
9 2 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.41%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.20%) Private Banking
10 1 (1.20%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 39 (46.99%) Business Analyst
2 38 (45.78%) Analyst
3 13 (15.66%) Regulatory Business Analyst
4 10 (12.05%) Lead
5 8 (9.64%) Consultant
5 8 (9.64%) Lead Consultant
6 7 (8.43%) Developer
6 7 (8.43%) Lead Business Analyst
7 6 (7.23%) Business Consultant
7 6 (7.23%) Regulatory Reporting Business Analyst
8 5 (6.02%) Architect
8 5 (6.02%) Technical Analyst
8 5 (6.02%) Technical Business Analyst
9 4 (4.82%) Charles River Consultant
9 4 (4.82%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
9 4 (4.82%) Project Manager
9 4 (4.82%) Report Analyst
10 3 (3.61%) ETRM Business Analyst
10 3 (3.61%) Middle Office Business Analyst
10 3 (3.61%) MiFID Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.25%) REST
2 10 (12.05%) .NET
3 7 (8.43%) SOAP
4 6 (7.23%) XML
5 5 (6.02%) React
6 4 (4.82%) .NET Framework
6 4 (4.82%) FpML
6 4 (4.82%) Kafka
7 3 (3.61%) .NET Core
7 3 (3.61%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (3.61%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (2.41%) JSON
9 1 (1.20%) ASP.NET
9 1 (1.20%) ASP.NET MVC
9 1 (1.20%) Middleware
9 1 (1.20%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 17 (20.48%) Derivative
1 17 (20.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 10 (12.05%) Fixed Income
3 9 (10.84%) Product Ownership
4 8 (9.64%) DTCC
5 6 (7.23%) Equities
6 5 (6.02%) Hedge funds
6 5 (6.02%) Reference Data
7 4 (4.82%) Onboarding
8 3 (3.61%) Cloud Native
8 3 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (2.41%) Credit Derivative
9 2 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (2.41%) Management Information System
9 2 (2.41%) Market Risk
9 2 (2.41%) PMI
9 2 (2.41%) Virtual Team
10 1 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (1.20%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.43%) Linux
1 7 (8.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (40.96%) Agile
2 25 (30.12%) Risk Management
3 23 (27.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 21 (25.30%) Validation
5 20 (24.10%) Regulatory Change
6 19 (22.89%) Data Analysis
7 15 (18.07%) Asset Management
7 15 (18.07%) Project Delivery
8 14 (16.87%) Business Analysis
8 14 (16.87%) Project Management
8 14 (16.87%) Requirements Gathering
9 13 (15.66%) Change Management
9 13 (15.66%) GAP Analysis
10 12 (14.46%) User Acceptance Testing
11 10 (12.05%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (10.84%) DevOps
12 9 (10.84%) Regulatory Compliance
12 9 (10.84%) Scrum
13 8 (9.64%) Analytics
13 8 (9.64%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 42 (50.60%) SQL
2 12 (14.46%) Python
3 10 (12.05%) C#
4 4 (4.82%) T-SQL
5 3 (3.61%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.41%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.20%) Java
7 1 (1.20%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (6.02%) Degree
2 3 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (3.61%) Master's Degree
2 3 (3.61%) PMI Certification
3 2 (2.41%) CBAP
4 1 (1.20%) CSPO
4 1 (1.20%) PMP
4 1 (1.20%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (53.01%) EMIR
2 11 (13.25%) Basel III
3 8 (9.64%) Dodd-Frank
4 5 (6.02%) Data Quality
4 5 (6.02%) GDPR
5 4 (4.82%) IFRS
6 3 (3.61%) IFRS 9
7 2 (2.41%) QA
7 2 (2.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (1.20%) FATCA
8 1 (1.20%) HIPAA
8 1 (1.20%) IFRS 17
8 1 (1.20%) ISO 20022
Vendors
1 12 (14.46%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.25%) Oracle
3 7 (8.43%) Sybase
4 4 (4.82%) Alteryx
4 4 (4.82%) Charles River
4 4 (4.82%) CQG
5 3 (3.61%) Portware
5 3 (3.61%) TOWER Software
6 2 (2.41%) Databricks
6 2 (2.41%) OpenLink
7 1 (1.20%) Avaloq
7 1 (1.20%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.20%) IBM
7 1 (1.20%) ION Trading
7 1 (1.20%) Pega
7 1 (1.20%) Reuters
7 1 (1.20%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.20%) SimCorp
7 1 (1.20%) Sparx
7 1 (1.20%) Verint