Hybrid/Remote MiFID Job Trends

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring MiFID skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 414 470
Rank change year-on-year +52 +56 +233
Permanent jobs citing MiFID 8 35 9
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.053% 0.20% 0.044%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.30% 1.21% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 6 35 9
10th Percentile £52,375 - £71,250
25th Percentile £56,938 £85,000 £95,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £115,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.35% +9.52% +64.71%
75th Percentile £98,750 £122,500 £110,000
90th Percentile £106,000 £152,500 £110,500
UK median annual salary £95,000 £115,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -17.39% +21.05% +18.75%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,686 2,891 3,113
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.66% 16.90% 15.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,633 1,586 2,452
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +4.17% +3.24%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +4.35%

MiFID
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing MiFID and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

MiFID job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

MiFID
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing MiFID.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing MiFID

MiFID
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing MiFID over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

MiFID salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

MiFID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Datadog
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) LAN
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
1 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
1 1 (12.50%) WAN
General
1 7 (87.50%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Back Office
3 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Report Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Business Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Business Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Financial Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) IT Manager
3 1 (12.50%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Project Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) ASIC
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Equities
2 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
1 2 (25.00%) Regulatory Change
1 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (12.50%) Blue-Green Deployment
2 1 (12.50%) Canary Deployment
2 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
2 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
2 1 (12.50%) IT Strategy
2 1 (12.50%) Observability
2 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (12.50%) Programme Delivery
2 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
2 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Tech Ops
2 1 (12.50%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (12.50%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) CAPM
2 1 (12.50%) CBAP
2 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
2 1 (12.50%) MBA
2 1 (12.50%) PgMP
2 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
2 1 (12.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) EMIR
2 2 (25.00%) Basel III
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) SAP
1 1 (12.50%) Splunk