Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 679 845 796
Rank change year-on-year +166 -49 +356
Permanent jobs citing MiFID 56 41 104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.093% 0.040% 0.12%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.61% 0.30% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 28 19 86
10th Percentile - - £53,125
25th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.56%
75th Percentile £107,500 £108,750 £96,875
90th Percentile £143,750 £118,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 9,215 13,455 13,458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.34% 13.04% 15.77%
Number of salaries quoted 4,866 8,782 8,120
10th Percentile £30,580 £26,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,750 £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 £74,000 £71,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -

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 16 July 2025.

Salary histogram for MiFID in the UK

MiFID
Top 6 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 16 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
England +165 56 £85,000 - 87
London +110 38 £85,000 - 87
UK excluding London +173 18 - - 20
North of England +71 18 - -
Yorkshire - 18 - -
Work from Home +106 8 £115,000 +16.46% 31

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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (8.93%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (8.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (5.36%) AWS
2 2 (3.57%) Azure
3 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.79%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (1.79%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.71%) Data Lake
2 2 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.79%) Big Data
3 1 (1.79%) Metadata
3 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (1.79%) NUnit
2 1 (1.79%) Selenium
2 1 (1.79%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 49 (87.50%) Finance
2 25 (44.64%) Social Skills
3 15 (26.79%) Front Office
4 9 (16.07%) Banking
4 9 (16.07%) Japanese Language
5 5 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (7.14%) Legal
7 3 (5.36%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (5.36%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.57%) Back Office
9 1 (1.79%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.79%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 26 (46.43%) Analyst
2 18 (32.14%) Compliance Analyst
3 9 (16.07%) Project Manager
4 7 (12.50%) Business Analyst
4 7 (12.50%) Lead
4 7 (12.50%) Senior
5 5 (8.93%) Systems Support
6 4 (7.14%) Senior Manager
6 4 (7.14%) Senior Project Manager
7 3 (5.36%) Developer
7 3 (5.36%) Product Manager
7 3 (5.36%) Regulatory Business Analyst
7 3 (5.36%) Report Analyst
8 2 (3.57%) C# Developer
8 2 (3.57%) Project Analyst
8 2 (3.57%) Regulatory Change Business Analyst
8 2 (3.57%) Regulatory Change Manager
8 2 (3.57%) Senior C# Developer
8 2 (3.57%) Senior Developer
9 1 (1.79%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.57%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (1.79%) .NET
2 1 (1.79%) .NET Core
2 1 (1.79%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.79%) CSS
2 1 (1.79%) FastAPI
2 1 (1.79%) HTML
2 1 (1.79%) Kafka
2 1 (1.79%) NumPy
2 1 (1.79%) Pandas
2 1 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.79%) React
2 1 (1.79%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 8 (14.29%) Hedge funds
3 6 (10.71%) Derivative
3 6 (10.71%) Equities
3 6 (10.71%) Fixed Income
3 6 (10.71%) OTC Derivatives
4 5 (8.93%) Wiki
5 4 (7.14%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.79%) ASIC
6 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (44.64%) Agile
2 20 (35.71%) Analytics
2 20 (35.71%) Data Analytics
3 18 (32.14%) Trade Surveillance
4 17 (30.36%) Project Management
5 11 (19.64%) Business Analysis
5 11 (19.64%) Project Delivery
6 10 (17.86%) Data Governance
6 10 (17.86%) Waterfall
7 9 (16.07%) Regulatory Compliance
8 8 (14.29%) Investment Management
9 7 (12.50%) Algorithmic Trading
9 7 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (12.50%) Data Management
9 7 (12.50%) GAP Analysis
9 7 (12.50%) Migration
10 6 (10.71%) Risk Management
10 6 (10.71%) Sprint Planning
10 6 (10.71%) Sprint Retrospective
10 6 (10.71%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.36%) C#
2 2 (3.57%) Python
2 2 (3.57%) SQL
3 1 (1.79%) Clojure
3 1 (1.79%) Groovy
3 1 (1.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (37.50%) Degree
2 2 (3.57%) CFA
2 2 (3.57%) PMI Certification
2 2 (3.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (50.00%) EMIR
2 8 (14.29%) Data Quality
3 5 (8.93%) PMO
4 2 (3.57%) GDPR
4 2 (3.57%) QA
4 2 (3.57%) UCITS
5 1 (1.79%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.79%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (1.79%) PSD2
System Software
1 1 (1.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.93%) Atlassian
2 5 (8.93%) GoldenSource
3 3 (5.36%) Bloomberg
4 2 (3.57%) Oracle
5 1 (1.79%) Reuters