MiFID Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring MiFID skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MiFID 12 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.38% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.52% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £461 - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £558 - -
90th Percentile £615 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £550 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 126 41 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 14.47% 14.96% 18.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 31 53
10th Percentile £346 £135 £308
25th Percentile £404 £143 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £450 £445
Median % change year-on-year +7.11% +1.11% -10.99%
75th Percentile £588 £530 £538
90th Percentile £688 £600 £588
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £441
% change year-on-year +11.11% +2.15% -11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.63
Median hourly rate £12.21 - £12.75
Median % change year-on-year - - -47.96%
75th Percentile - - £12.88
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.50 £32.81 £10.86
% change year-on-year -52.76% +202.12% -52.78%

MiFID
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

MiFID job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

MiFID
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing MiFID.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing MiFID

MiFID
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MiFID in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 9 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for MiFID in South Yorkshire

MiFID
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MiFID within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 9 February 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
Sheffield - 12 £550 - 1
MiFID
Yorkshire

MiFID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 11 (91.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 11 (91.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) Microsoft 365
1 11 (91.67%) Microsoft Purview
1 11 (91.67%) OneDrive
General
1 11 (91.67%) Legal
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Architect
1 11 (91.67%) Microsoft 365 Architect
2 1 (8.33%) IT Manager
2 1 (8.33%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (83.33%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Data Loss Prevention
1 11 (91.67%) E-Discovery
1 11 (91.67%) Information Governance
1 11 (91.67%) Records Management
2 9 (75.00%) Case Management
2 9 (75.00%) Data Architecture
2 9 (75.00%) Runbook
3 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 8 (66.67%) Incident Response
3 8 (66.67%) Internal Audit
4 1 (8.33%) Client Onboarding
4 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
4 1 (8.33%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (8.33%) Portfolio Management
4 1 (8.33%) Scrum
4 1 (8.33%) Service Design
4 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (8.33%) Waterfall
4 1 (8.33%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) PowerShell
2 9 (75.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) PMI Certification
1 1 (8.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (100.00%) GDPR
2 11 (91.67%) FINRA
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) Microsoft