MiFID Jobs in England

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring MiFID skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited MiFID over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 636 814 774
Rank change year-on-year +178 -40 +277
Permanent jobs citing MiFID 64 36 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.038% 0.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.81% 0.30% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 36 16 83
10th Percentile £60,000 - £52,500
25th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £91,250 £85,000 £80,294
Median % change year-on-year +7.35% +5.86% -10.79%
75th Percentile £125,625 £108,125 £96,250
90th Percentile £152,500 £113,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £91,250 £85,000 £80,294
% change year-on-year +7.35% +5.86% -10.79%

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 7,947 12,143 13,589
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.54% 12.90% 17.18%
Number of salaries quoted 4,361 8,207 7,410
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,159 £71,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

MiFID
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing MiFID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for MiFID in England

MiFID
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MiFID in England.

Salary trend for MiFID in England

MiFID
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing MiFID in England over the 6 months to 2 July 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 2 July 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 +108 46 £91,250 +7.35% 181
North of England +69 18 - - 8
Yorkshire - 18 - -
MiFID
UK

MiFID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (4.69%) AWS
2 2 (3.13%) Azure
3 1 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.56%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (1.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.56%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (28.13%) Data Lake
2 2 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.56%) Big Data
3 1 (1.56%) Metadata
3 1 (1.56%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (7.81%) JIRA
2 1 (1.56%) NUnit
2 1 (1.56%) Selenium
2 1 (1.56%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 57 (89.06%) Finance
2 26 (40.63%) Front Office
3 24 (37.50%) Social Skills
4 9 (14.06%) Japanese Language
5 8 (12.50%) Banking
6 4 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (6.25%) Legal
7 3 (4.69%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.56%) Back Office
9 1 (1.56%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 23 (35.94%) Analyst
2 19 (29.69%) Lead
3 18 (28.13%) Compliance Analyst
4 8 (12.50%) Project Manager
5 6 (9.38%) Senior
6 5 (7.81%) Business Analyst
6 5 (7.81%) Systems Support
7 4 (6.25%) Senior Manager
7 4 (6.25%) Senior Project Manager
8 3 (4.69%) Developer
8 3 (4.69%) Product Manager
9 2 (3.13%) C# Developer
9 2 (3.13%) Project Analyst
9 2 (3.13%) Regulatory Business Analyst
9 2 (3.13%) Regulatory Change Business Analyst
9 2 (3.13%) Regulatory Change Manager
9 2 (3.13%) Senior C# Developer
9 2 (3.13%) Senior Developer
10 1 (1.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 1 (1.56%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.13%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (1.56%) .NET
2 1 (1.56%) .NET Core
2 1 (1.56%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.56%) CSS
2 1 (1.56%) FastAPI
2 1 (1.56%) HTML
2 1 (1.56%) Kafka
2 1 (1.56%) NumPy
2 1 (1.56%) Pandas
2 1 (1.56%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.56%) React
2 1 (1.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 24 (37.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 20 (31.25%) Hedge funds
3 18 (28.13%) Derivative
3 18 (28.13%) Equities
3 18 (28.13%) Fixed Income
4 5 (7.81%) OTC Derivatives
5 4 (6.25%) Product Ownership
5 4 (6.25%) Wiki
6 1 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (54.69%) Agile
2 21 (32.81%) Data Governance
2 21 (32.81%) Regulatory Compliance
3 20 (31.25%) Analytics
3 20 (31.25%) Data Analytics
4 19 (29.69%) Data Management
4 19 (29.69%) Investment Management
4 19 (29.69%) Migration
5 18 (28.13%) Roadmaps
5 18 (28.13%) Trade Surveillance
6 16 (25.00%) Project Management
7 10 (15.63%) Project Delivery
8 9 (14.06%) Business Analysis
8 9 (14.06%) Waterfall
9 7 (10.94%) Algorithmic Trading
10 6 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (9.38%) Risk Management
11 5 (7.81%) Sprint Planning
11 5 (7.81%) Sprint Retrospective
11 5 (7.81%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.69%) C#
2 2 (3.13%) Python
2 2 (3.13%) SQL
3 1 (1.56%) Clojure
3 1 (1.56%) Groovy
3 1 (1.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (31.25%) Degree
2 2 (3.13%) PMI Certification
2 2 (3.13%) PMP
3 1 (1.56%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (40.63%) EMIR
2 6 (9.38%) Data Quality
3 4 (6.25%) PMO
4 2 (3.13%) GDPR
5 1 (1.56%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.56%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (1.56%) PSD2
5 1 (1.56%) QA
5 1 (1.56%) UCITS
System Software
1 1 (1.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (7.81%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.25%) Atlassian
2 4 (6.25%) GoldenSource
3 2 (3.13%) Bloomberg
3 2 (3.13%) Oracle
4 1 (1.56%) Reuters