MiFID Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 286 325 436
Rank change year-on-year +39 +111 +124
Contract jobs citing MiFID 28 22 20
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.28% 0.15% 0.082%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.66% 1.11% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 19 19
10th Percentile £497 £500 £500
25th Percentile £584 £563 £593
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £625 £738
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -15.25% +22.92%
75th Percentile £808 £750 £810
90th Percentile £938 £810 -
UK median daily rate £650 £675 £725
% change year-on-year -3.70% -6.90% +11.54%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,685 1,988 3,064
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 16.56% 13.64% 12.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,143 1,397 2,228
10th Percentile £310 £300 £338
25th Percentile £400 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £606 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 69 80
10th Percentile £14.78 £12.00 £17.50
25th Percentile £19.40 £14.00 £20.97
Median hourly rate £34.48 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.92% -28.57% -9.50%
75th Percentile £67.50 £53.75 £58.88
90th Percentile £70.16 £67.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £24.00 £37.75
% change year-on-year +25.00% -36.42% +39.81%

MiFID
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

MiFID trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

MiFID
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing MiFID over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

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:

Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Fidessa
2 2 (7.14%) Aladdin
2 2 (7.14%) thinkFolio
3 1 (3.57%) Kondor
3 1 (3.57%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.29%) Azure
2 2 (7.14%) AWS
2 2 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (7.14%) Serverless
3 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.57%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (35.71%) Data Lake
2 4 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.57%) Data Mart
3 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (3.57%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (89.29%) Finance
2 16 (57.14%) Front Office
3 11 (39.29%) Banking
4 10 (35.71%) Social Skills
5 7 (25.00%) Investment Banking
6 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (10.71%) Back Office
7 3 (10.71%) Financial Institution
8 1 (3.57%) Legal
8 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (3.57%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Lead
2 9 (32.14%) Business Analyst
3 7 (25.00%) Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) .NET Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Data Business Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Project Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Banking Business Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) C# Architect
5 1 (3.57%) FX Business Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Product Business Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Programme Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Report Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Risk Management Specialist
5 1 (3.57%) Senior
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Software Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Software Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Technical Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) REST
2 3 (10.71%) .NET
3 2 (7.14%) .NET Core
3 2 (7.14%) .NET Framework
3 2 (7.14%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (3.57%) FpML
4 1 (3.57%) Kafka
4 1 (3.57%) Murex MxML
4 1 (3.57%) SOAP
4 1 (3.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (60.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 16 (57.14%) Derivative
3 15 (53.57%) Fixed Income
4 13 (46.43%) Equities
5 12 (42.86%) Hedge funds
6 4 (14.29%) Product Ownership
7 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
7 2 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (3.57%) DTCC
8 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
8 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
8 1 (3.57%) Reference Data
8 1 (3.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Unix
2 1 (3.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) Agile
1 14 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 12 (42.86%) Data Management
2 12 (42.86%) Investment Management
3 11 (39.29%) Migration
4 10 (35.71%) Data Governance
4 10 (35.71%) Roadmaps
5 8 (28.57%) Regulatory Change
6 6 (21.43%) Risk Management
7 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (14.29%) CI/CD
8 4 (14.29%) DevOps
9 3 (10.71%) Business Analysis
9 3 (10.71%) Data Analysis
9 3 (10.71%) Process Improvement
9 3 (10.71%) Project Management
9 3 (10.71%) Requirements Gathering
9 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
10 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
10 2 (7.14%) MoSCoW
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.00%) SQL
2 3 (10.71%) C#
2 3 (10.71%) Python
3 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.57%) Ruby
3 1 (3.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Degree
2 2 (7.14%) Master's Degree
2 2 (7.14%) PMI Certification
2 2 (7.14%) PMP
3 1 (3.57%) CBAP
3 1 (3.57%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.00%) EMIR
2 2 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.14%) GDPR
3 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.57%) AIFMD
3 1 (3.57%) Basel III
3 1 (3.57%) Dodd-Frank
3 1 (3.57%) QA
3 1 (3.57%) UCITS
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) Bloomberg
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
1 2 (7.14%) Portware
2 1 (3.57%) CQG
2 1 (3.57%) ION Trading
2 1 (3.57%) Murex
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle
2 1 (3.57%) Reuters
2 1 (3.57%) Sybase
2 1 (3.57%) Tradeweb