MiFID Job Trends in Central London

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring MiFID skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 183 168
Rank change year-on-year +50 -15 +103
Permanent jobs citing MiFID 7 1 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 0.30% 0.031% 0.23%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.90% 0.19% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 7 1 5
10th Percentile £56,200 - £75,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £80,000 £88,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £85,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% +18.75%
75th Percentile £102,500 £90,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £119,500 - £106,000
London median annual salary £95,000 £115,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -17.39% +21.05% +18.75%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Central London

MiFID falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 369 522 504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 15.66% 16.04% 16.30%
Number of salaries quoted 275 247 441
10th Percentile £36,750 £46,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,125 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.11% +0.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £104,750 £110,000
London median annual salary £72,250 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.67% +7.14% +3.70%

MiFID
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing MiFID relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Central London.

MiFID job vacancy trend in Central London

MiFID
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing MiFID.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing MiFID

MiFID
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing MiFID in Central London over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for MiFID in Central London

MiFID
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MiFID within the Central London region over the 6 months to 30 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +49 7 £95,000 +11.76% 5
MiFID
London

MiFID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
1 2 (28.57%) SaaS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Data Mining
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI
General
1 7 (100.00%) Finance
2 4 (57.14%) Banking
3 3 (42.86%) Financial Institution
3 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
4 2 (28.57%) Front Office
4 2 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (14.29%) Brand Awareness
5 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
5 1 (14.29%) Japanese Language
5 1 (14.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Report Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Sales Executive
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
1 2 (28.57%) Solutions Sales Executive
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Architect
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Solution Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Product Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Regulatory Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Regulatory Reporting Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Reporting Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Sales Executive
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) ASIC
2 2 (28.57%) Derivative
2 2 (28.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
2 2 (28.57%) OTC Derivatives
3 1 (14.29%) DTCC
3 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
1 3 (42.86%) Fintech
2 2 (28.57%) AI
2 2 (28.57%) Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) B2B
2 2 (28.57%) B2B Sales
2 2 (28.57%) Business Development
2 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (28.57%) CRM
2 2 (28.57%) Regtech
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
3 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 1 (14.29%) Data Management
3 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (14.29%) Economics
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bash
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (14.29%) CFA
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) EMIR
2 1 (14.29%) Basel III
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Bloomberg
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Refinitiv