Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 508 623 733
Rank change year-on-year +115 +110 -103
Contract jobs citing MiFID 71 71 130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.12% 0.15%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.18% 0.93% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 54 113
10th Percentile £400 £513 £513
25th Percentile £563 £563 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £688 £650
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +5.77% +8.33%
75th Percentile £771 £750 £750
90th Percentile £800 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £325
% change year-on-year - - -62.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £42.50
Median hourly rate - £47.73 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year - +11.00% -
75th Percentile - - £43.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £47.73 £43.00
% change year-on-year - +11.00% -

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6,035 7,662 11,737
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.19% 13.38% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,843 5,232 8,045
10th Percentile £280 £281 £300
25th Percentile £402 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £743 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £480 £450
% change year-on-year +0.10% +6.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 381 242 315
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.33 £12.03
25th Percentile £13.18 £18.71 £16.50
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +16.67% +42.86%
75th Percentile £45.00 £61.50 £50.39
90th Percentile £68.75 £77.35 £68.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.27 £31.89 £22.50
% change year-on-year -42.70% +41.71% +7.14%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for MiFID in the UK

MiFID
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MiFID over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MiFID in the UK

MiFID
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MiFID.

Hourly rate trend for MiFID in the UK

MiFID
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MiFID within the UK over the 6 months to 20 May 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
England +120 69 £700 -1.75% 43
London +107 69 £700 -1.75% 43
Work from Home +134 33 £625 +13.64% 10

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 7 (9.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (9.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (9.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (9.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (8.45%) ION MarketView
2 1 (1.41%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 10 (14.08%) AWS
2 3 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (2.82%) npm
3 2 (2.82%) Yarn
4 1 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.27%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (1.41%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.31%) SQL Server
2 11 (15.49%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (7.04%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.82%) Big Data
5 1 (1.41%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.41%) KDB
5 1 (1.41%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.41%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (12.68%) TeamCity
2 8 (11.27%) JIRA
3 2 (2.82%) Babel
3 2 (2.82%) Git
3 2 (2.82%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (2.82%) webpack
General
1 29 (40.85%) Banking
2 28 (39.44%) Finance
3 17 (23.94%) Front Office
4 16 (22.54%) Social Skills
5 11 (15.49%) Investment Banking
6 10 (14.08%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (4.23%) Prime Brokerage
8 2 (2.82%) Back Office
8 2 (2.82%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 34 (47.89%) Business Analyst
2 21 (29.58%) Analyst
2 21 (29.58%) Developer
3 16 (22.54%) Regulatory Business Analyst
4 11 (15.49%) .NET Developer
5 9 (12.68%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
5 9 (12.68%) Report Developer
6 8 (11.27%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
7 7 (9.86%) Front Office Business Analyst
8 6 (8.45%) FIX Business Analyst
9 5 (7.04%) Angular Developer
9 5 (7.04%) AWS Developer
9 5 (7.04%) C# .NET Developer
9 5 (7.04%) C# Developer
9 5 (7.04%) Java Developer
9 5 (7.04%) Regulatory Reporting Business Analyst
9 5 (7.04%) Report Analyst
10 4 (5.63%) Financial Analyst
10 4 (5.63%) Project Manager
10 4 (5.63%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.49%) .NET
1 11 (15.49%) FIX Protocol
2 9 (12.68%) XML
3 7 (9.86%) AngularJS
3 7 (9.86%) ASP.NET
4 5 (7.04%) .NET Core
5 4 (5.63%) Node.js
6 2 (2.82%) Kafka
6 2 (2.82%) React
6 2 (2.82%) REST
7 1 (1.41%) CSS
7 1 (1.41%) FastAPI
7 1 (1.41%) HTML
7 1 (1.41%) Material-UI
7 1 (1.41%) MSMQ
7 1 (1.41%) NumPy
7 1 (1.41%) Pandas
7 1 (1.41%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.41%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.41%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.13%) Derivative
2 12 (16.90%) Fixed Income
3 8 (11.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (11.27%) Hedge funds
4 6 (8.45%) Equities
5 5 (7.04%) Equity Derivative
6 4 (5.63%) Algorithms
6 4 (5.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (4.23%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.41%) ASIC
9 1 (1.41%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.41%) DTCC
9 1 (1.41%) EFT
9 1 (1.41%) Grid Computing
9 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.41%) Product Ownership
9 1 (1.41%) Synthetic Equity
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.27%) Unix
2 2 (2.82%) Linux
3 1 (1.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (18.31%) Stakeholder Management
2 10 (14.08%) Agile
2 10 (14.08%) TDD
3 9 (12.68%) Data Modelling
4 8 (11.27%) Electronic Trading
4 8 (11.27%) Risk Management
5 7 (9.86%) Computer Science
5 7 (9.86%) Microservices
5 7 (9.86%) UML
6 6 (8.45%) Full Stack Development
7 5 (7.04%) Data Lineage
7 5 (7.04%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (7.04%) Regtech
7 5 (7.04%) SDLC
7 5 (7.04%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (5.63%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (5.63%) Business Analysis
8 4 (5.63%) OO
8 4 (5.63%) OOD
8 4 (5.63%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 34 (47.89%) SQL
2 16 (22.54%) C#
3 11 (15.49%) Java
4 5 (7.04%) PL/SQL
5 4 (5.63%) C++
6 2 (2.82%) C
6 2 (2.82%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.82%) Python
6 2 (2.82%) Scala
7 1 (1.41%) Clojure
7 1 (1.41%) Groovy
7 1 (1.41%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.41%) Perl
7 1 (1.41%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (18.31%) Degree
2 4 (5.63%) Master's Degree
2 4 (5.63%) PhD
3 2 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.41%) ISEB
4 1 (1.41%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (63.38%) EMIR
2 28 (39.44%) Dodd-Frank
3 8 (11.27%) QA
4 4 (5.63%) SEPA
5 3 (4.23%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.41%) FATCA
6 1 (1.41%) GDPR
6 1 (1.41%) PMO
Vendors
1 14 (19.72%) Bloomberg
2 8 (11.27%) ION Trading
2 8 (11.27%) MarketAxess
2 8 (11.27%) Tradeweb
3 7 (9.86%) Oracle
4 3 (4.23%) Reuters
5 2 (2.82%) Refinitiv
6 1 (1.41%) Charles River
6 1 (1.41%) Progress
6 1 (1.41%) Sybase