MiFID Contracts in London

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 16 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 336 417 482
Rank change year-on-year +81 +65 -47
Contract jobs citing MiFID 64 65 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.36% 0.26% 0.32%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.63% 1.93% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 53 108
10th Percentile £438 £513 £529
25th Percentile £563 £575 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £725 £693
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +4.69% +15.42%
75th Percentile £754 £756 £750
90th Percentile £800 £808 £800
England median daily rate £700 £725 £680
% change year-on-year -3.45% +6.62% +13.33%

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 2,435 3,374 4,857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.77% 13.42% 12.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,709 2,468 3,429
10th Percentile £350 £355 £353
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 39 85
10th Percentile £13.29 £19.39 £20.00
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.24 £24.71
Median hourly rate £24.18 £26.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -41.57% +121.89%
75th Percentile £43.75 £61.88 £49.25
90th Percentile £56.00 £80.50 £68.25
England median hourly rate £24.18 £42.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -43.11% +54.55% +33.92%

MiFID
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for MiFID in London

MiFID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for MiFID in London

MiFID
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MiFID in London over the 6 months to 16 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MiFID in London

MiFID
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for MiFID in London

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 16 June 2024. 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 +29 3 £700 -5.08% 1
MiFID
England

MiFID
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 4 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (6.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (6.25%) ION MarketView
2 1 (1.56%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 10 (15.63%) AWS
2 3 (4.69%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (3.13%) npm
3 2 (3.13%) Yarn
4 1 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.81%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (1.56%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (20.31%) SQL Server
2 11 (17.19%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (7.81%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.13%) Big Data
5 1 (1.56%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.56%) KDB
5 1 (1.56%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.56%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (9.38%) TeamCity
2 5 (7.81%) JIRA
3 2 (3.13%) Babel
3 2 (3.13%) Git
3 2 (3.13%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (3.13%) webpack
General
1 27 (42.19%) Finance
2 26 (40.63%) Banking
3 13 (20.31%) Front Office
3 13 (20.31%) Social Skills
4 10 (15.63%) Investment Banking
5 7 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.69%) Prime Brokerage
7 2 (3.13%) Back Office
7 2 (3.13%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
8 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 30 (46.88%) Business Analyst
2 22 (34.38%) Developer
3 19 (29.69%) Analyst
4 16 (25.00%) Regulatory Business Analyst
5 11 (17.19%) .NET Developer
6 9 (14.06%) Report Developer
7 6 (9.38%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
7 6 (9.38%) Report Analyst
8 5 (7.81%) Angular Developer
8 5 (7.81%) AWS Developer
8 5 (7.81%) C# .NET Developer
8 5 (7.81%) C# Developer
8 5 (7.81%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
8 5 (7.81%) Full Stack Developer
8 5 (7.81%) Java Developer
8 5 (7.81%) Regulatory Reporting Business Analyst
9 4 (6.25%) Finance Business Analyst
9 4 (6.25%) FIX Business Analyst
9 4 (6.25%) Front Office Business Analyst
9 4 (6.25%) Full Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (18.75%) .NET
2 8 (12.50%) FIX Protocol
3 7 (10.94%) AngularJS
3 7 (10.94%) ASP.NET
4 6 (9.38%) .NET Core
5 5 (7.81%) XML
6 4 (6.25%) Node.js
7 2 (3.13%) Kafka
7 2 (3.13%) React
7 2 (3.13%) REST
8 1 (1.56%) CSS
8 1 (1.56%) FastAPI
8 1 (1.56%) Material-UI
8 1 (1.56%) Middleware
8 1 (1.56%) NumPy
8 1 (1.56%) Pandas
8 1 (1.56%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.56%) Spring
8 1 (1.56%) Spring Boot
8 1 (1.56%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.06%) Derivative
2 8 (12.50%) Fixed Income
2 8 (12.50%) Hedge funds
3 6 (9.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (7.81%) Equities
4 5 (7.81%) Equity Derivative
5 4 (6.25%) Algorithms
6 3 (4.69%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (3.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (1.56%) ASIC
8 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.56%) EFT
8 1 (1.56%) Grid Computing
8 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.56%) Synthetic Equity
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.25%) Unix
2 1 (1.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (15.63%) Agile
2 9 (14.06%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (14.06%) TDD
3 7 (10.94%) Computer Science
3 7 (10.94%) Full Stack Development
3 7 (10.94%) Microservices
4 6 (9.38%) Data Modelling
5 5 (7.81%) Business Analysis
5 5 (7.81%) Data Lineage
5 5 (7.81%) Electronic Trading
5 5 (7.81%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (7.81%) Regtech
5 5 (7.81%) Risk Management
5 5 (7.81%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (6.25%) Clean Code
6 4 (6.25%) Data Governance
6 4 (6.25%) Decision-Making
6 4 (6.25%) Design Patterns
6 4 (6.25%) Machine Learning
6 4 (6.25%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 31 (48.44%) SQL
2 17 (26.56%) C#
3 11 (17.19%) Java
4 5 (7.81%) PL/SQL
5 4 (6.25%) C++
6 2 (3.13%) C
6 2 (3.13%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.13%) Python
6 2 (3.13%) Scala
7 1 (1.56%) Clojure
7 1 (1.56%) Groovy
7 1 (1.56%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.56%) Perl
7 1 (1.56%) R
7 1 (1.56%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (15.63%) Degree
2 4 (6.25%) Master's Degree
2 4 (6.25%) PhD
3 2 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (60.94%) EMIR
2 23 (35.94%) Dodd-Frank
3 4 (6.25%) QA
4 3 (4.69%) Data Quality
5 2 (3.13%) SEPA
6 1 (1.56%) FATCA
6 1 (1.56%) GDPR
6 1 (1.56%) PMO
Vendors
1 9 (14.06%) Bloomberg
2 7 (10.94%) Oracle
3 5 (7.81%) ION Trading
3 5 (7.81%) MarketAxess
3 5 (7.81%) Tradeweb
4 2 (3.13%) Refinitiv
5 1 (1.56%) Charles River
5 1 (1.56%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.56%) Reuters
5 1 (1.56%) Sybase