MiFID Contract Job Trends in London

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring MiFID skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 314 343
Rank change year-on-year -102 +29 +23
Contract jobs citing MiFID 36 60 54
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.18% 0.44% 0.33%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.92% 2.59% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 46 42
10th Percentile £440 £513 £500
25th Percentile £506 £576 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £688 £638
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% +7.84% -13.85%
75th Percentile £663 £738 £750
90th Percentile £735 £806 £797
England median daily rate £563 £630 £625
% change year-on-year -10.71% +0.80% -15.54%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,909 2,321 2,214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.24% 17.19% 13.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,628 1,535 1,441
10th Percentile £350 £325 £336
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £680
90th Percentile £725 £750 £800
England median daily rate £508 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.50% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 51 42
10th Percentile £16.57 - £18.13
25th Percentile £22.07 £25.15 £23.80
Median hourly rate £28.55 £34.00 £29.81
Median % change year-on-year -16.03% +14.06% -14.83%
75th Percentile £40.00 £43.98 £49.69
90th Percentile £58.00 £55.00 £71.88
England median hourly rate £33.79 £31.64 £29.00
% change year-on-year +6.80% +9.10% -17.14%

MiFID
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MiFID relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

MiFID job vacancy trend in London

MiFID
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing MiFID

MiFID
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MiFID in London over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for MiFID in London

MiFID
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing MiFID.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing MiFID

MiFID
Contract 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 MiFID within the London region over the 6 months to 10 September 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
Central London -28 4 £650 -7.14% 4
South London - 1 £300 - 1
MiFID
England

MiFID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 4 (11.11%) Confluence
2 3 (8.33%) Apache Spark
3 2 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (8.33%) MS Visio
3 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Aladdin
2 1 (2.78%) IntelliMatch
2 1 (2.78%) SimCorp Dimension
2 1 (2.78%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 8 (22.22%) Azure
2 7 (19.44%) AWS
2 7 (19.44%) GCP
3 3 (8.33%) Snowflake
4 2 (5.56%) dbt
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (2.78%) Collibra
5 1 (2.78%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.78%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.89%) Data Lake
1 5 (13.89%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (13.89%) Metadata
2 3 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (8.33%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.78%) Big Data
3 1 (2.78%) Power BI
3 1 (2.78%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) JIRA
2 4 (11.11%) ER Studio
2 4 (11.11%) ERwin
2 4 (11.11%) PowerDesigner
3 3 (8.33%) Git
4 1 (2.78%) REST Assured
General
1 23 (63.89%) Finance
2 22 (61.11%) Banking
3 17 (47.22%) Investment Banking
4 15 (41.67%) Social Skills
5 14 (38.89%) Front Office
6 7 (19.44%) Legal
7 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (5.56%) Back Office
8 2 (5.56%) Financial Institution
8 2 (5.56%) Private Banking
9 1 (2.78%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (2.78%) French Language
9 1 (2.78%) German Language
9 1 (2.78%) Italian Language
9 1 (2.78%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 15 (41.67%) Analyst
1 15 (41.67%) Business Analyst
2 6 (16.67%) Regulatory Business Analyst
3 5 (13.89%) MiFID Business Analyst
3 5 (13.89%) Project Manager
4 4 (11.11%) Data Modeller
4 4 (11.11%) Report Analyst
4 4 (11.11%) Senior
5 3 (8.33%) Business Manager
5 3 (8.33%) Business Project Manager
5 3 (8.33%) Data Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Front Office Business Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) Product Business Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) Project Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) Python Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Regulatory Reporting Business Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Governance Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Product Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) Flask
1 3 (8.33%) Pandas
2 2 (5.56%) Kafka
2 2 (5.56%) Spring
2 2 (5.56%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.78%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.22%) Derivative
2 7 (19.44%) Equities
3 5 (13.89%) Fixed Income
3 5 (13.89%) Reference Data
4 4 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (8.33%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
6 2 (5.56%) Market Risk
6 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
6 2 (5.56%) OTC Derivatives
7 1 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (2.78%) DTCC
7 1 (2.78%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) Regulatory Change
2 11 (30.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (27.78%) Validation
4 8 (22.22%) Data Analysis
5 7 (19.44%) GAP Analysis
6 6 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 6 (16.67%) Data Governance
6 6 (16.67%) Data Modelling
6 6 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (13.89%) AI
7 5 (13.89%) Data Lineage
7 5 (13.89%) Project Management
7 5 (13.89%) Software Engineering
8 4 (11.11%) Agile
8 4 (11.11%) Business Analysis
8 4 (11.11%) Investment Management
8 4 (11.11%) Logical Data Model
8 4 (11.11%) Migration
8 4 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (11.11%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (41.67%) SQL
2 6 (16.67%) Python
3 4 (11.11%) Java
4 1 (2.78%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.78%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (2.78%) CFA
2 1 (2.78%) IIBA
2 1 (2.78%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.78%) MBA
2 1 (2.78%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (47.22%) EMIR
2 3 (8.33%) PMO
2 3 (8.33%) QA
3 2 (5.56%) AIFMD
3 2 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.56%) GDPR
4 1 (2.78%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (2.78%) FATCA
4 1 (2.78%) Solvency II
4 1 (2.78%) UCITS
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (11.11%) Oracle
2 3 (8.33%) Charles River
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.56%) Avaloq
3 2 (5.56%) Bloomberg
3 2 (5.56%) Murex
4 1 (2.78%) Calypso
4 1 (2.78%) Databricks
4 1 (2.78%) FactSet
4 1 (2.78%) FNZ
4 1 (2.78%) Informatica
4 1 (2.78%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.78%) SimCorp
4 1 (2.78%) StatPro
4 1 (2.78%) Talend
4 1 (2.78%) Temenos