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 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 582 733
Rank change year-on-year -1 +151 +157
Permanent jobs citing MiFID 28 88 21
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.050% 0.19% 0.032%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.41% 1.16% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 23 69 15
10th Percentile £66,750 £70,000 £79,000
25th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £91,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +17.95% +21.43%
75th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £110,000
90th Percentile £111,600 £152,500 -
UK median annual salary £100,000 £115,000 £96,250
% change year-on-year -13.04% +19.48% +19.87%

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 6,895 7,583 9,226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.26% 16.29% 14.22%
Number of salaries quoted 4,097 3,417 7,011
10th Percentile £30,370 £31,250 £27,965
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £59,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.67% +9.09% -4.35%

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 2 February 2026.

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 2 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +2 28 £100,000 -13.04% 10
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 2 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.57%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.86%) SaaS
2 4 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (7.14%) Azure
3 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (3.57%) Datadog
4 1 (3.57%) Serverless
4 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) Firewall
1 2 (7.14%) LAN
1 2 (7.14%) Network Security
1 2 (7.14%) SD-WAN
1 2 (7.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Data Mining
1 2 (7.14%) Power BI
2 1 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) JIRA
2 1 (3.57%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
General
1 26 (92.86%) Finance
2 14 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 11 (39.29%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (25.00%) Banking
5 5 (17.86%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (10.71%) Financial Institution
7 2 (7.14%) Back Office
7 2 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (3.57%) Brand Awareness
8 1 (3.57%) Front Office
8 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (46.43%) Analyst
2 12 (42.86%) Business Analyst
3 4 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 4 (14.29%) Senior
4 3 (10.71%) Derivatives Business Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) OTC Derivatives Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) OTC Derivatives Business Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 2 (7.14%) IT Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (7.14%) IT Infrastructure Project Manager
5 2 (7.14%) IT Manager
5 2 (7.14%) IT Project Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Sales Executive
5 2 (7.14%) Solutions Sales Executive
6 1 (3.57%) Architect
6 1 (3.57%) IT Business Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Junior
6 1 (3.57%) QA Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (3.57%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 10 (35.71%) Fixed Income
2 7 (25.00%) Derivative
2 7 (25.00%) OTC Derivatives
3 5 (17.86%) Product Ownership
4 3 (10.71%) Equities
4 3 (10.71%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (10.71%) Onboarding
5 2 (7.14%) ASIC
5 2 (7.14%) Data Centre
5 2 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (7.14%) Private Cloud
5 2 (7.14%) Virtual Team
5 2 (7.14%) Wiki
6 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (3.57%) DTCC
6 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
6 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Windows
1 2 (7.14%) Windows 10
2 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) Agile
1 12 (42.86%) Analytics
1 12 (42.86%) Business Analysis
1 12 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 11 (39.29%) Data Analysis
3 10 (35.71%) Decision-Making
4 9 (32.14%) Data Analytics
4 9 (32.14%) Fintech
5 8 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
5 8 (28.57%) BPMN
5 8 (28.57%) Data Modelling
5 8 (28.57%) Scrum
5 8 (28.57%) UML
5 8 (28.57%) User Stories
6 7 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (21.43%) CI/CD
7 6 (21.43%) Process Improvement
7 6 (21.43%) Project Management
8 5 (17.86%) Conceptual Models
8 5 (17.86%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) Python
2 2 (7.14%) SQL
3 1 (3.57%) Bash
3 1 (3.57%) C++
3 1 (3.57%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (46.43%) Degree
2 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.57%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (39.29%) EMIR
2 8 (28.57%) Actionable Recommendations
3 7 (25.00%) Data Quality
4 3 (10.71%) Basel III
5 2 (7.14%) GDPR
5 2 (7.14%) PMO
5 2 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 2 (7.14%) Terraform
2 1 (3.57%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) GoldenSource
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.14%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.57%) Bloomberg
4 1 (3.57%) ION Trading
4 1 (3.57%) Refinitiv
4 1 (3.57%) SAP
4 1 (3.57%) Splunk