EMIR Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 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 294 319 470
Rank change year-on-year +25 +151 +144
Contract jobs citing EMIR 10 26 7
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.17% 0.027%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.67% 1.16% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 26 6
10th Percentile £525 - -
25th Percentile £550 £400 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £638 £675
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £638 £734 £736
90th Percentile £698 £800 £759
UK median daily rate £588 £700 £750
% change year-on-year -16.07% -6.67% +7.14%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,488 2,240 3,140
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.02% 14.60% 12.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,005 1,532 2,292
10th Percentile £281 £313 £325
25th Percentile £400 £420 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -0.97% +3.00%
75th Percentile £603 £623 £625
90th Percentile £713 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 79 63
10th Percentile £17.98 £12.75 £18.54
25th Percentile £23.13 £14.00 £25.50
Median hourly rate £39.00 £22.87 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.53% -46.81% -2.16%
75th Percentile £67.50 £44.38 £61.88
90th Percentile £87.15 £65.00 £72.35
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £20.80 £37.50
% change year-on-year +65.85% -44.53% +33.93%

EMIR
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing EMIR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

EMIR trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

EMIR
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing EMIR.

EMIR daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

EMIR
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing EMIR over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

EMIR daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

EMIR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Fidessa
1 1 (10.00%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Data Mart
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (90.00%) Finance
2 8 (80.00%) Banking
3 6 (60.00%) Investment Banking
4 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
5 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (30.00%) Back Office
6 2 (20.00%) Front Office
7 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
7 1 (10.00%) Legal
7 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Analyst
1 7 (70.00%) Business Analyst
2 4 (40.00%) Data Business Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Data Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Banking Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Banking Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) FX Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Report Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Software Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (10.00%) FpML
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
1 1 (10.00%) Murex MxML
1 1 (10.00%) REST
1 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (40.00%) Derivative
3 3 (30.00%) Equities
3 3 (30.00%) Fixed Income
4 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
5 1 (10.00%) DTCC
5 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
5 1 (10.00%) Reference Data
5 1 (10.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 5 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 4 (40.00%) Data Management
2 4 (40.00%) MoSCoW
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Process Improvement
2 4 (40.00%) Project Management
2 4 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 3 (30.00%) Business Analysis
3 3 (30.00%) Risk Management
4 2 (20.00%) Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Asset Management
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Data Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Project Planning
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
4 2 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) Ruby
3 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) CBAP
2 2 (20.00%) PMI Certification
2 2 (20.00%) PMP
3 1 (10.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (90.00%) MiFID
2 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (20.00%) Dodd-Frank
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Bloomberg
2 1 (10.00%) CQG
2 1 (10.00%) ION Trading
2 1 (10.00%) Murex
2 1 (10.00%) Reuters
2 1 (10.00%) Tradeweb