MiFID Contracts with Work from Home Options

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for MiFID skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited MiFID over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 311 454 582
Rank change year-on-year +143 +128 -122
Contract jobs citing MiFID 35 18 41
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.23% 0.070% 0.092%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.56% 0.57% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 15 38
10th Percentile £400 £288 £321
25th Percentile £475 £506 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +2.35%
75th Percentile £750 £713 £734
90th Percentile £800 £731 £831
UK median daily rate £700 £675 £650
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% +11.83%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

MiFID is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,237 3,140 5,905
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.64% 12.14% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,522 2,291 4,194
10th Percentile £313 £325 £313
25th Percentile £420 £415 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.73% +3.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £622 £625 £600
90th Percentile £750 £725 £695
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 63 119
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.54 £11.75
25th Percentile £14.00 £25.50 £18.13
Median hourly rate £21.94 £43.00 £43.95
Median % change year-on-year -48.99% -2.16% +118.28%
75th Percentile £40.00 £61.88 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £72.35 £66.30
UK median hourly rate £20.61 £37.50 £28.50
% change year-on-year -45.05% +31.58% +35.39%

MiFID
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing MiFID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

MiFID trend for jobs with a WFH option

MiFID
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing MiFID.

MiFID daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

MiFID
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing MiFID over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

MiFID daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

MiFID
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (8.57%) AWS
2 1 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (8.57%) Relational Database
2 3 (8.57%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.71%) Big Data
4 1 (2.86%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.86%) RDBMS
General
1 22 (62.86%) Banking
2 17 (48.57%) Finance
3 11 (31.43%) Social Skills
4 7 (20.00%) Front Office
5 3 (8.57%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.71%) Prime Brokerage
6 2 (5.71%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
7 1 (2.86%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 15 (42.86%) Business Analyst
2 10 (28.57%) Analyst
2 10 (28.57%) Developer
3 9 (25.71%) Regulatory Business Analyst
4 4 (11.43%) Finance Business Analyst
4 4 (11.43%) Financial Analyst
4 4 (11.43%) Java Developer
4 4 (11.43%) Regulatory Reporting Business Analyst
5 3 (8.57%) AWS Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Report Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) .NET Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Financial Business Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Financial Services Business Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Payments Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Payments Business Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Report Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Service Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) .NET
1 2 (5.71%) FIX Protocol
1 2 (5.71%) Node.js
2 1 (2.86%) .NET Core
2 1 (2.86%) .NET Framework
2 1 (2.86%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.86%) Entity Framework
2 1 (2.86%) JSON
2 1 (2.86%) Kafka
2 1 (2.86%) MSMQ
2 1 (2.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Derivative
2 4 (11.43%) Equities
2 4 (11.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (11.43%) Hedge funds
3 2 (5.71%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.71%) Equity Derivative
3 2 (5.71%) Fixed Income
3 2 (5.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (2.86%) DTCC
4 1 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Linux
1 1 (2.86%) Unix
1 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (17.14%) Agile
1 6 (17.14%) Computer Science
2 5 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (11.43%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (11.43%) Collaborative Culture
3 4 (11.43%) Data Governance
3 4 (11.43%) Data Lineage
3 4 (11.43%) Decision-Making
3 4 (11.43%) Machine Learning
3 4 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (11.43%) Regtech
3 4 (11.43%) System Integration Testing
3 4 (11.43%) TDD
4 3 (8.57%) Microservices
4 3 (8.57%) SDLC
5 2 (5.71%) CI/CD
5 2 (5.71%) Clean Code
5 2 (5.71%) Collateral Management
5 2 (5.71%) Design Patterns
5 2 (5.71%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 14 (40.00%) SQL
2 7 (20.00%) Java
3 4 (11.43%) C#
4 2 (5.71%) C++
5 1 (2.86%) Kotlin
5 1 (2.86%) Perl
5 1 (2.86%) Python
5 1 (2.86%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (17.14%) Degree
2 4 (11.43%) Master's Degree
2 4 (11.43%) PhD
3 2 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.86%) ISEB
4 1 (2.86%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (68.57%) EMIR
2 15 (42.86%) Dodd-Frank
3 2 (5.71%) SEPA
4 1 (2.86%) FATCA
4 1 (2.86%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (5.71%) Bloomberg
1 2 (5.71%) Reuters
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle
2 1 (2.86%) Progress
2 1 (2.86%) Sybase