EMIR Contracts

European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 480 533 628
Rank change year-on-year +53 +95 +156
Contract jobs citing EMIR 50 54 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.12% 0.10%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.99% 0.91% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 42 49
10th Percentile £500 £506 £550
25th Percentile £513 £586 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £700 £740
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -5.41% +5.71%
75th Percentile £725 £750 £775
90th Percentile £771 £810 £810
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £531 -
% change year-on-year -1.18% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £47.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £47.73

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,063 5,937 7,593
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.32% 13.68% 13.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,247 3,687 5,184
10th Percentile £280 £282 £300
25th Percentile £400 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £495
% change year-on-year - -4.04% +7.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 432 253
10th Percentile £14.78 £11.07 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £13.50 £19.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £23.80 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.05% -37.37% +40.74%
75th Percentile £63.75 £50.27 £63.23
90th Percentile £83.41 £70.00 £79.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.18 £21.06 £37.50
% change year-on-year +33.84% -43.85% +66.67%

EMIR
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for EMIR in the UK

EMIR
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for EMIR in the UK

EMIR
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing EMIR over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for EMIR in the UK

EMIR
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for EMIR in the UK

EMIR
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing EMIR within the UK over the 6 months to 2 July 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
England +53 47 £650 -7.14% 110
London +35 46 £650 -9.09% 105
Work from Home +31 9 £588 -9.62% 32
UK excluding London +44 2 £525 -1.18% 11
Midlands +4 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 £525 - 1

EMIR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (6.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Aladdin
2 2 (4.00%) Fidessa
3 1 (2.00%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 6 (12.00%) Azure
2 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (4.00%) AWS
4 1 (2.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.00%) Data Mart
3 1 (2.00%) Power BI
3 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (16.00%) JIRA
2 3 (6.00%) Git
3 2 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (66.00%) Finance
2 26 (52.00%) Social Skills
3 20 (40.00%) Front Office
4 13 (26.00%) Back Office
5 11 (22.00%) Banking
6 9 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (12.00%) Investment Banking
8 5 (10.00%) Legal
9 4 (8.00%) Financial Institution
10 2 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (74.00%) Business Analyst
2 33 (66.00%) Analyst
3 14 (28.00%) Regulatory Business Analyst
4 8 (16.00%) Consultant
4 8 (16.00%) Lead
4 8 (16.00%) Lead Consultant
5 7 (14.00%) Lead Business Analyst
6 6 (12.00%) Business Consultant
6 6 (12.00%) Developer
7 5 (10.00%) Regulatory Reporting Business Analyst
8 4 (8.00%) Charles River Consultant
8 4 (8.00%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
8 4 (8.00%) Technical Analyst
8 4 (8.00%) Technical Business Analyst
9 3 (6.00%) Banking Analyst
9 3 (6.00%) Business Development Consultant
9 3 (6.00%) Charles River Business Analyst
9 3 (6.00%) Data Business Analyst
9 3 (6.00%) FX Business Analyst
9 3 (6.00%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.00%) .NET
2 6 (12.00%) XML
3 4 (8.00%) FpML
3 4 (8.00%) React
4 3 (6.00%) Kafka
5 2 (4.00%) JSON
6 1 (2.00%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.00%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.00%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (2.00%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (2.00%) Murex MxML
6 1 (2.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 8 (16.00%) DTCC
3 6 (12.00%) Derivative
4 4 (8.00%) Fixed Income
5 3 (6.00%) Equities
5 3 (6.00%) Hedge funds
5 3 (6.00%) Reference Data
6 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
6 2 (4.00%) Onboarding
6 2 (4.00%) Product Ownership
7 1 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (2.00%) Credit Risk
7 1 (2.00%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (2.00%) Market Risk
7 1 (2.00%) OTC Derivatives
7 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (2.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (32.00%) Agile
1 16 (32.00%) Data Analysis
2 15 (30.00%) Business Analysis
2 15 (30.00%) Project Management
3 14 (28.00%) Regulatory Change
3 14 (28.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 13 (26.00%) Asset Management
4 13 (26.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (26.00%) Validation
5 12 (24.00%) Change Management
6 11 (22.00%) Risk Management
7 10 (20.00%) GAP Analysis
7 10 (20.00%) Project Delivery
7 10 (20.00%) Scrum
8 9 (18.00%) End-to-End Testing
9 8 (16.00%) Portfolio Management
9 8 (16.00%) System Testing
10 7 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (14.00%) User Acceptance Testing
11 6 (12.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 25 (50.00%) SQL
2 7 (14.00%) C#
3 6 (12.00%) Python
4 3 (6.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.00%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (6.00%) Degree
2 1 (2.00%) CBAP
2 1 (2.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (88.00%) MiFID
2 10 (20.00%) Dodd-Frank
3 4 (8.00%) Data Quality
4 3 (6.00%) QA
5 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (2.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.00%) Charles River
3 3 (6.00%) Bloomberg
4 2 (4.00%) Alteryx
4 2 (4.00%) CQG
4 2 (4.00%) Murex
5 1 (2.00%) ION Trading
5 1 (2.00%) OpenLink
5 1 (2.00%) Oracle
5 1 (2.00%) Reuters
5 1 (2.00%) SimCorp
5 1 (2.00%) TOWER Software
5 1 (2.00%) Tradeweb
5 1 (2.00%) Trayport