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 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 628 512 797
Rank change year-on-year -116 +285 +74
Permanent jobs citing MiFID 37 83 10
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.052% 0.23% 0.013%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.48% 1.41% 0.089%
Number of salaries quoted 33 61 6
10th Percentile £75,000 - £69,375
25th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £77,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £115,000 £98,750
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +16.46% +17.91%
75th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £106,563
90th Percentile £114,400 £152,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +17.95% +16.42%

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 7,763 5,878 11,223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.92% 16.08% 14.27%
Number of salaries quoted 4,782 3,521 8,179
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £27,300
25th Percentile £43,167 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -6.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +14.29% -8.70%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -40 37 £100,000 -13.04% 11
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 5 (13.51%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.70%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.51%) SaaS
2 4 (10.81%) AWS
3 2 (5.41%) Azure
3 2 (5.41%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.70%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (2.70%) Datadog
4 1 (2.70%) GCP
4 1 (2.70%) IBM Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.70%) Serverless
4 1 (2.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) Network Security
2 1 (2.70%) Firewall
2 1 (2.70%) LAN
2 1 (2.70%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) Data Mining
1 2 (5.41%) Power BI
2 1 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (18.92%) JIRA
2 3 (8.11%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.41%) Git
General
1 32 (86.49%) Finance
2 17 (45.95%) Social Skills
3 10 (27.03%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (27.03%) Banking
4 4 (10.81%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (8.11%) Financial Institution
5 3 (8.11%) Front Office
6 2 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (5.41%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Back Office
7 1 (2.70%) Brand Awareness
7 1 (2.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 17 (45.95%) Analyst
2 16 (43.24%) Business Analyst
3 7 (18.92%) Senior
4 6 (16.22%) Project Manager
5 4 (10.81%) Derivatives Business Analyst
5 4 (10.81%) Lead
5 4 (10.81%) OTC Derivatives Analyst
5 4 (10.81%) OTC Derivatives Business Analyst
5 4 (10.81%) Technical Leader
6 3 (8.11%) Derivatives Project Manager
7 2 (5.41%) Business IT Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) IT Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) IT Business Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Regulatory Business Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Report Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Sales Executive
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Business Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Solutions Sales Executive
8 1 (2.70%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (2.70%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 14 (37.84%) Derivative
2 13 (35.14%) Fixed Income
3 11 (29.73%) OTC Derivatives
4 7 (18.92%) Equities
5 5 (13.51%) Virtual Team
5 5 (13.51%) Wiki
6 4 (10.81%) Product Ownership
7 3 (8.11%) Onboarding
8 2 (5.41%) ASIC
8 2 (5.41%) DTCC
8 2 (5.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
9 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
9 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (2.70%) Private Cloud
9 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Unix
1 1 (2.70%) Windows
1 1 (2.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (43.24%) Agile
2 14 (37.84%) Business Analysis
3 13 (35.14%) Data Analysis
4 12 (32.43%) Analytics
4 12 (32.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (29.73%) Decision-Making
6 10 (27.03%) Fintech
7 9 (24.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (24.32%) Data Analytics
7 9 (24.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (21.62%) Actionable Insight
8 8 (21.62%) BPMN
8 8 (21.62%) Data Modelling
8 8 (21.62%) Scrum
8 8 (21.62%) UML
8 8 (21.62%) User Stories
9 7 (18.92%) Project Delivery
10 6 (16.22%) CI/CD
10 6 (16.22%) Regulatory Compliance
10 6 (16.22%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.41%) Python
1 2 (5.41%) SQL
2 1 (2.70%) Bash
2 1 (2.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (37.84%) Degree
2 3 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.70%) CFA
3 1 (2.70%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (40.54%) EMIR
2 8 (21.62%) Actionable Recommendations
3 5 (13.51%) Data Quality
3 5 (13.51%) PMO
4 3 (8.11%) GDPR
4 3 (8.11%) QA
5 2 (5.41%) Basel III
6 1 (2.70%) COBIT
6 1 (2.70%) HIPAA
6 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (2.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (2.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) Kubernetes
1 3 (8.11%) Terraform
2 1 (2.70%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.51%) Atlassian
3 4 (10.81%) GoldenSource
4 2 (5.41%) SAP
5 1 (2.70%) Alibaba
5 1 (2.70%) Apple
5 1 (2.70%) Bloomberg
5 1 (2.70%) Google
5 1 (2.70%) IBM
5 1 (2.70%) Oracle
5 1 (2.70%) Refinitiv
5 1 (2.70%) Splunk