MiFID Contracts in Central London

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for MiFID skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited MiFID over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 157 176
Rank change year-on-year +23 +19 -18
Contract jobs citing MiFID 3 17 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.13% 0.46% 0.40%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.74% 3.41% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 14 16
10th Percentile £510 £620 £574
25th Percentile £563 £638 £681
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £731 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.27% +4.46% +7.69%
75th Percentile £774 £750 £750
90th Percentile £788 £796 £805
London median daily rate £700 £725 £675
% change year-on-year -3.45% +7.41% +12.50%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Central London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 405 499 664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 16.91% 13.45% 14.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 363 423
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £488 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% +8.17%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £650
90th Percentile £765 £824 £775
London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 5
10th Percentile £17.96 - £20.00
25th Percentile £20.44 - £25.25
Median hourly rate £23.40 £25.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% -39.76% +107.50%
75th Percentile £25.92 - £61.75
90th Percentile £35.16 - £62.20
London median hourly rate £24.18 £26.25 £44.50
% change year-on-year -7.89% -41.01% +122.50%

MiFID
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for MiFID in Central London

MiFID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MiFID in Central London.

Daily rate trend for MiFID in Central London

MiFID
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MiFID in Central London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MiFID in Central London

MiFID
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MiFID within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of Westminster - 3 £700 -
MiFID
London

MiFID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Big Data
2 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) ETL Developer
2 1 (33.33%) MiFID Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Perl Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Report Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Report Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Scala Developer
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Hedge funds
2 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Re-Platforming
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Release Management
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Kotlin
1 1 (33.33%) Perl
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Scala
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) EMIR
1 1 (33.33%) FATCA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Sybase