MiFID Job Trends in England

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring MiFID skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 579 662 642
Rank change year-on-year +83 -20 +342
Permanent jobs citing MiFID 38 56 56
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.083% 0.092% 0.12%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.57% 0.64% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 30 24 51
10th Percentile - - £51,250
25th Percentile £60,000 - £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -17.65% -2.86%
75th Percentile £101,875 £80,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,700 £130,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -17.65% -2.86%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6,632 8,746 7,062
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.42% 14.37% 14.91%
Number of salaries quoted 4,088 3,970 5,387
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,613 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +5.17%

MiFID
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

MiFID job vacancy trend in England

MiFID
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing MiFID.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing MiFID

MiFID
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing MiFID in England over the 6 months to 15 November 2025.

Salary histogram for MiFID in England

MiFID
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MiFID within the England region over the 6 months to 15 November 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
London +44 38 £80,000 +14.29% 28
MiFID
UK

MiFID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 6 (15.79%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (15.79%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (13.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (13.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (2.63%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.89%) AWS
2 1 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (2.63%) Azure
2 1 (2.63%) Datadog
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) Firewall
1 1 (2.63%) FTP
1 1 (2.63%) LAN
1 1 (2.63%) Network Security
1 1 (2.63%) SD-WAN
1 1 (2.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (21.05%) JIRA
General
1 30 (78.95%) Finance
2 11 (28.95%) Social Skills
3 10 (26.32%) Banking
4 9 (23.68%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (23.68%) Japanese Language
5 7 (18.42%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (13.16%) Front Office
7 4 (10.53%) Back Office
8 3 (7.89%) Investment Banking
9 2 (5.26%) Legal
10 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
10 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (2.63%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (31.58%) Analyst
2 10 (26.32%) Business Analyst
3 9 (23.68%) Project Manager
4 7 (18.42%) Senior
5 5 (13.16%) Systems Support
6 4 (10.53%) Senior Manager
6 4 (10.53%) Senior Project Manager
7 3 (7.89%) Developer
7 3 (7.89%) Product Manager
7 3 (7.89%) Report Analyst
8 2 (5.26%) C# Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Senior C# Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Senior Developer
9 1 (2.63%) Front Office Developer
9 1 (2.63%) Infrastructure Manager
9 1 (2.63%) Infrastructure Project Manager
9 1 (2.63%) IT Manager
9 1 (2.63%) IT Project Manager
9 1 (2.63%) Senior Analyst
9 1 (2.63%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (2.63%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.63%) CSS
2 1 (2.63%) FastAPI
2 1 (2.63%) HTML
2 1 (2.63%) Kafka
2 1 (2.63%) NumPy
2 1 (2.63%) Pandas
2 1 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (2.63%) React
2 1 (2.63%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.05%) Product Ownership
2 6 (15.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (15.79%) OTC Derivatives
2 6 (15.79%) Wiki
3 5 (13.16%) Fixed Income
4 2 (5.26%) ASIC
4 2 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.26%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.63%) Derivative
5 1 (2.63%) Equities
5 1 (2.63%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.63%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.63%) Linux
1 1 (2.63%) Windows
1 1 (2.63%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (60.53%) Agile
2 19 (50.00%) Project Management
3 15 (39.47%) Business Analysis
4 12 (31.58%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (28.95%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (26.32%) Project Delivery
6 10 (26.32%) Waterfall
7 9 (23.68%) Data Integration
7 9 (23.68%) GAP Analysis
8 8 (21.05%) Algorithmic Trading
9 7 (18.42%) BPMN
9 7 (18.42%) Data Analysis
9 7 (18.42%) User Stories
10 6 (15.79%) Analytics
10 6 (15.79%) Budgeting
10 6 (15.79%) Change Control
10 6 (15.79%) Decision-Making
10 6 (15.79%) Process Improvement
10 6 (15.79%) Requirements Gathering
11 5 (13.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.89%) Python
1 3 (7.89%) SQL
2 2 (5.26%) C#
3 1 (2.63%) Bash
3 1 (2.63%) C++
3 1 (2.63%) Clojure
3 1 (2.63%) Groovy
3 1 (2.63%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (23.68%) Degree
2 2 (5.26%) CFA
2 2 (5.26%) PMI Certification
2 2 (5.26%) PMP
3 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (31.58%) Data Quality
2 11 (28.95%) EMIR
3 6 (15.79%) PMO
4 4 (10.53%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (5.26%) Basel III
5 2 (5.26%) QA
5 2 (5.26%) UCITS
6 1 (2.63%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (2.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes
1 2 (5.26%) Terraform
2 1 (2.63%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (23.68%) GoldenSource
2 6 (15.79%) Atlassian
2 6 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.53%) Bloomberg
4 2 (5.26%) Oracle
5 1 (2.63%) ION Trading
5 1 (2.63%) Refinitiv
5 1 (2.63%) Reuters
5 1 (2.63%) SAP
5 1 (2.63%) Splunk