EMIR Contracts in London

European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring EMIR skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited EMIR over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 313 338 393
Rank change year-on-year +25 +55 +136
DemandTrendContract jobs citing EMIR 46 45 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.34% 0.28% 0.29%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.01% 2.03% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 36 60
10th Percentile £513 £500 £550
25th Percentile £533 £563 £633
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £700 £740
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% -5.41% +4.96%
75th Percentile £738 £750 £760
90th Percentile £775 £829 £810
England median daily rate £663 £669 £740
% change year-on-year -0.93% -9.63% +4.23%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
London

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 London.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,283 2,215 3,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.08% 13.64% 13.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,524 1,470 2,365
10th Percentile £325 £338 £353
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £700
90th Percentile £761 £794 £798
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 41 35
10th Percentile - £18.13 £16.71
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.84 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.13% +1.24% +3.77%
75th Percentile £43.21 £50.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £54.00 £71.88 £75.00
England median hourly rate £31.64 £25.77 £35.75
% change year-on-year +22.80% -27.93% +58.89%

EMIR
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for EMIR in London

EMIR
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing EMIR

EMIR
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing EMIR in London over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for EMIR in London

EMIR
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing EMIR within the London region over the 6 months to 28 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +9 14 £700 - 8
East London - 1 £630 -
EMIR
England

EMIR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (4.35%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (10.87%) Endur
2 4 (8.70%) Aladdin
3 3 (6.52%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.87%) Azure
2 4 (8.70%) AWS
3 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.04%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.17%) Power BI
2 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (8.70%) JIRA
2 2 (4.35%) Git
2 2 (4.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (54.35%) Finance
2 24 (52.17%) Social Skills
3 15 (32.61%) Front Office
4 9 (19.57%) Back Office
5 8 (17.39%) Banking
6 6 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (8.70%) Investment Banking
8 2 (4.35%) Legal
8 2 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (2.17%) Financial Institution
9 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (67.39%) Analyst
1 31 (67.39%) Business Analyst
2 15 (32.61%) Regulatory Business Analyst
3 8 (17.39%) Consultant
3 8 (17.39%) Lead
3 8 (17.39%) Lead Consultant
4 7 (15.22%) Lead Business Analyst
4 7 (15.22%) Regulatory Reporting Business Analyst
5 6 (13.04%) Business Consultant
5 6 (13.04%) Developer
6 4 (8.70%) Charles River Consultant
6 4 (8.70%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
6 4 (8.70%) Report Analyst
6 4 (8.70%) Technical Analyst
6 4 (8.70%) Technical Business Analyst
7 3 (6.52%) Business Development Consultant
7 3 (6.52%) Charles River Analyst
7 3 (6.52%) Charles River Business Analyst
7 3 (6.52%) ETRM Business Analyst
7 3 (6.52%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.22%) XML
2 6 (13.04%) .NET
3 4 (8.70%) FpML
3 4 (8.70%) React
4 3 (6.52%) Kafka
5 2 (4.35%) JSON
6 1 (2.17%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.17%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.17%) Swagger
6 1 (2.17%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.39%) DTCC
2 7 (15.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (10.87%) Fixed Income
4 3 (6.52%) Derivative
5 2 (4.35%) Equities
5 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.35%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.17%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.17%) Credit Risk
6 1 (2.17%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.17%) Hedge funds
6 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.17%) OTC Derivatives
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (41.30%) Agile
2 14 (30.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (28.26%) Business Analysis
3 13 (28.26%) Project Delivery
4 12 (26.09%) Project Management
4 12 (26.09%) Requirements Gathering
5 11 (23.91%) Asset Management
5 11 (23.91%) Data Analysis
5 11 (23.91%) GAP Analysis
5 11 (23.91%) Regulatory Change
5 11 (23.91%) Scrum
5 11 (23.91%) Validation
6 10 (21.74%) Change Management
7 8 (17.39%) End-to-End Testing
7 8 (17.39%) Portfolio Management
7 8 (17.39%) Risk Management
7 8 (17.39%) System Testing
8 6 (13.04%) ETRM
8 6 (13.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (13.04%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (52.17%) SQL
2 7 (15.22%) C#
3 3 (6.52%) T-SQL
4 2 (4.35%) Python
5 1 (2.17%) C++
5 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.17%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.17%) VBA
5 1 (2.17%) VC++
Qualifications
1 2 (4.35%) Degree
2 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.17%) CSPO
2 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (86.96%) MiFID
2 6 (13.04%) Dodd-Frank
3 4 (8.70%) QA
4 2 (4.35%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 9 (19.57%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.70%) Charles River
2 4 (8.70%) Oracle
3 3 (6.52%) CQG
3 3 (6.52%) TOWER Software
4 2 (4.35%) OpenLink
5 1 (2.17%) Bloomberg
5 1 (2.17%) Refinitiv
5 1 (2.17%) SimCorp