MiFID Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in 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 125 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MiFID 12 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.60% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.03% - -
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 - -
England median daily rate £600 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +3.70%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 298 112 290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.01% 12.04% 15.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 81 170
10th Percentile £350 £143 £265
25th Percentile £428 £263 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £441
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +2.15% -11.90%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £560
90th Percentile £675 £688 £600
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 7
10th Percentile £13.43 - -
25th Percentile £15.25 £31.47 -
Median hourly rate £15.50 £32.81 £10.86
Median % change year-on-year -52.76% +202.12% -52.78%
75th Percentile £18.23 £34.15 £11.94
90th Percentile £26.41 - £14.49
England median hourly rate £24.19 £31.76 £25.12
% change year-on-year -23.84% +26.46% -13.40%

MiFID
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

MiFID job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

MiFID
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing MiFID

MiFID
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for MiFID in Yorkshire

MiFID
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
South Yorkshire - 12 £550 - 1
MiFID
England

MiFID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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