MiFID Contracts in the Midlands

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MiFID 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.10% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.61% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £394 - -
25th Percentile £399 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £417 - -
75th Percentile £446 - -
90th Percentile £456 - -
England median daily rate £675 £700 £675
% change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% +3.85%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 328 384 520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 17.14% 13.93% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 263 341
10th Percentile £196 £254 £250
25th Percentile £318 £354 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £539 £613 £588
90th Percentile £600 £756 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 44 13
10th Percentile - £11.34 £11.30
25th Percentile £14.70 £13.00 £12.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £14.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.40% -28.75% +17.28%
75th Percentile £30.38 £27.92 £27.13
90th Percentile £44.20 £58.75 £51.02
England median hourly rate £34.75 £22.34 £41.50
% change year-on-year +55.55% -46.17% +50.91%

MiFID
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for MiFID in the Midlands

MiFID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for MiFID in the Midlands

MiFID
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MiFID within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
East Midlands - 2 £417 -
MiFID
England

MiFID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Legal
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Budget Management
2 1 (50.00%) Budgeting
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Line Management
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Project Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Change
2 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Basel III
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley