Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for MiFID skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited MiFID over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 893 876 1094
Rank change year-on-year -17 +218 -303
Permanent jobs citing MiFID 12 97 128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.093% 0.083%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.089% 0.48% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 7 68 90
10th Percentile £53,400 £53,750 £56,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £70,735 £68,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £83,750 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.42% -1.47% +3.03%
75th Percentile £105,625 £97,500 £112,188
90th Percentile £119,500 £100,875 £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,250 - £90,000

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

MiFID is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 13,492 20,036 25,781
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.75% 19.26% 16.71%
Number of salaries quoted 9,235 9,199 13,238
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -

MiFID
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for MiFID in the UK

MiFID
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for MiFID in the UK

MiFID
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing MiFID over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for MiFID in the UK

MiFID
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MiFID within the UK over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
England +32 11 £98,750 +17.91% 37
London +51 8 £100,000 +19.40% 36
Work from Home +33 4 £86,250 +7.42% 8
UK excluding London - 4 £58,250 - 1
North of England - 2 - -
North West - 2 - -
South East - 1 £75,000 -
Scotland - 1 £41,500 -

MiFID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (91.67%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Front Office
2 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Banking
4 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Investment Banking
4 2 (16.67%) Legal
5 1 (8.33%) French Language
5 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Analyst
1 4 (33.33%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Operations Business Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Python Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Information Officer
4 1 (8.33%) Information Security Officer
4 1 (8.33%) Quantitative Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Risk Officer
4 1 (8.33%) Security Officer
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (25.00%) CSS
1 3 (25.00%) FastAPI
1 3 (25.00%) FIX Protocol
1 3 (25.00%) HTML
1 3 (25.00%) Kafka
1 3 (25.00%) NumPy
1 3 (25.00%) Pandas
1 3 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (25.00%) React
1 3 (25.00%) REST
1 3 (25.00%) Spring
1 3 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Hedge funds
2 1 (8.33%) ASIC
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (8.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Agile
1 5 (41.67%) Analytics
2 4 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 3 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 3 (25.00%) Full Stack Development
3 3 (25.00%) Migration
3 3 (25.00%) Project Management
3 3 (25.00%) RAD
4 2 (16.67%) Anti-Money Laundering
4 2 (16.67%) Business Analysis
4 2 (16.67%) Business Case
4 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis
4 2 (16.67%) MSF
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Quantitative Finance
4 2 (16.67%) Regulatory Change
4 2 (16.67%) Statistics
4 2 (16.67%) Trade Surveillance
4 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) Clojure
2 3 (25.00%) Groovy
2 3 (25.00%) Java
2 3 (25.00%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) Scala
3 1 (8.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) CISA
2 1 (8.33%) CISM
2 1 (8.33%) CISSP
2 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) EMIR
2 1 (8.33%) Basel II
2 1 (8.33%) COBIT
2 1 (8.33%) Dodd-Frank
2 1 (8.33%) FINRA
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (8.33%) NIST
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Bloomberg
1 3 (25.00%) Reuters
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft