MiFID Jobs in London

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 336 500 535
Rank change year-on-year +164 +35 +226
Permanent jobs citing MiFID 67 17 94
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.52% 0.072% 0.27%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.21% 0.51% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 61 8 70
10th Percentile - £74,750 £53,750
25th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £70,735
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £98,750 £86,250
Median % change year-on-year +16.46% +14.49% -1.43%
75th Percentile £122,500 £109,375 £97,500
90th Percentile £152,500 £121,750 £108,875
England median annual salary £115,000 £98,750 £86,250
% change year-on-year +16.46% +14.49% -1.43%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,088 3,352 5,670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.15% 14.21% 16.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,265 2,471 3,637
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £49,650 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% - +3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £111,250 £102,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

MiFID
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for MiFID in London

MiFID
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for MiFID in London

MiFID
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing MiFID in London over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for MiFID in London

MiFID
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MiFID within the London region over the 6 months to 14 May 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
Central London +25 2 £85,000 -15.00% 5
MiFID
England

MiFID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (2.99%) Confluence
2 1 (1.49%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (2.99%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.49%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Aladdin
1 2 (2.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.49%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (1.49%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 4 (5.97%) AWS
2 3 (4.48%) Azure
2 3 (4.48%) Power Platform
3 2 (2.99%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (2.99%) GCP
4 1 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.49%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.49%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (82.09%) Data Lake
2 3 (4.48%) Power BI
2 3 (4.48%) Tableau
3 2 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.99%) Qlik Sense
3 2 (2.99%) QlikView
4 1 (1.49%) Big Data
4 1 (1.49%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (2.99%) JIRA
1 2 (2.99%) NUnit
2 1 (1.49%) Selenium
2 1 (1.49%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 65 (97.01%) Finance
2 59 (88.06%) Front Office
3 5 (7.46%) Social Skills
4 4 (5.97%) Banking
5 2 (2.99%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.99%) Financial Institution
5 2 (2.99%) Legal
6 1 (1.49%) Advertising
6 1 (1.49%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 37 (55.22%) Lead
2 13 (19.40%) Data Governance Analyst
2 13 (19.40%) Data Governance Manager
2 13 (19.40%) Governance Manager
3 10 (14.93%) Analyst
3 10 (14.93%) Business Analyst
4 7 (10.45%) Finance Manager
4 7 (10.45%) Programme Manager
5 6 (8.96%) Data Business Analyst
5 6 (8.96%) Finance Business Analyst
5 6 (8.96%) Financial Analyst
5 6 (8.96%) Governance Analyst
5 6 (8.96%) Product Manager
5 6 (8.96%) Product Owner
6 2 (2.99%) Applications Engineer
6 2 (2.99%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (2.99%) C# Software Engineer
6 2 (2.99%) Project Analyst
6 2 (2.99%) Project Manager
6 2 (2.99%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.99%) .NET
1 2 (2.99%) .NET Core
1 2 (2.99%) FpML
1 2 (2.99%) XML
2 1 (1.49%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 57 (85.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 56 (83.58%) Hedge funds
3 55 (82.09%) Derivative
3 55 (82.09%) Equities
3 55 (82.09%) Fixed Income
4 19 (28.36%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.99%) DTCC
5 2 (2.99%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.49%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.49%) OTC Derivatives
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (86.57%) Agile
2 57 (85.07%) Data Governance
2 57 (85.07%) Regulatory Compliance
3 55 (82.09%) Investment Management
3 55 (82.09%) Migration
3 55 (82.09%) Roadmaps
4 37 (55.22%) Data Management
5 4 (5.97%) Data Analysis
5 4 (5.97%) Project Delivery
5 4 (5.97%) Project Management
5 4 (5.97%) Use Case
5 4 (5.97%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (4.48%) BPMN
6 3 (4.48%) Business Analysis
6 3 (4.48%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (4.48%) Decision-Making
6 3 (4.48%) Regulatory Change
6 3 (4.48%) Risk Management
7 2 (2.99%) Artificial Intelligence
7 2 (2.99%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.48%) Python
1 3 (4.48%) SQL
2 2 (2.99%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (1.49%) Degree
1 1 (1.49%) PMI Certification
1 1 (1.49%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.96%) EMIR
2 3 (4.48%) GDPR
3 2 (2.99%) Dodd-Frank
3 2 (2.99%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.99%) PSD2
3 2 (2.99%) SEPA
4 1 (1.49%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.49%) Basel III
4 1 (1.49%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (2.99%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.99%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (2.99%) Avaloq
1 2 (2.99%) Bloomberg
1 2 (2.99%) Calypso
1 2 (2.99%) Charles River
1 2 (2.99%) Cloudera
1 2 (2.99%) Currenex
1 2 (2.99%) Microsoft
1 2 (2.99%) Murex
1 2 (2.99%) OneTrust
1 2 (2.99%) Varonis
2 1 (1.49%) Automation Anywhere
2 1 (1.49%) Blue Prism
2 1 (1.49%) CheckPoint
2 1 (1.49%) FIS
2 1 (1.49%) Fortinet
2 1 (1.49%) Google
2 1 (1.49%) PayPal
2 1 (1.49%) Salesforce
2 1 (1.49%) Temenos
2 1 (1.49%) UiPath