MiFID Contracts with Work from Home Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 318 443 571
Rank change year-on-year +125 +128 -76
Contract jobs citing MiFID 31 16 55
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.21% 0.066% 0.12%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.51% 0.53% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 14 52
10th Percentile - £500 £449
25th Percentile £400 £516 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £663 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +6.56%
75th Percentile £750 £775 £725
90th Percentile £802 £810 £750
UK median daily rate £675 £725 £650
% change year-on-year -6.90% +11.54% +8.33%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,056 3,000 5,816
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.04% 12.38% 13.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,432 2,176 4,152
10th Percentile £300 £325 £313
25th Percentile £413 £419 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £520 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.02% +1.96% +7.37%
75th Percentile £619 £632 £613
90th Percentile £750 £743 £700
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -2.86% +0.96% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 68 129
10th Percentile £12.75 £17.50 £11.97
25th Percentile £14.00 £20.97 £19.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £39.60 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.39% -11.01% +134.21%
75th Percentile £48.75 £59.46 £56.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £70.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £22.34 £37.50 £27.73
% change year-on-year -40.43% +35.23% +32.05%

MiFID
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing MiFID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

MiFID trend for jobs with a WFH option

MiFID
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing MiFID.

MiFID daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

MiFID
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing MiFID over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

MiFID daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

MiFID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (9.68%) AWS
2 1 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (9.68%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.45%) Big Data
3 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.23%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.23%) RDBMS
General
1 20 (64.52%) Banking
2 16 (51.61%) Finance
3 11 (35.48%) Social Skills
4 6 (19.35%) Front Office
5 2 (6.45%) Investment Banking
5 2 (6.45%) Prime Brokerage
5 2 (6.45%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 14 (45.16%) Business Analyst
2 9 (29.03%) Analyst
2 9 (29.03%) Developer
3 8 (25.81%) Regulatory Business Analyst
4 4 (12.90%) Finance Business Analyst
4 4 (12.90%) Financial Analyst
4 4 (12.90%) Java Developer
5 3 (9.68%) AWS Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Regulatory Reporting Business Analyst
5 3 (9.68%) Report Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Financial Business Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Financial Services Business Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Payments Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Payments Business Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Senior
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Service Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) SQL Developer
7 1 (3.23%) ETL Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Perl Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) FIX Protocol
1 2 (6.45%) Node.js
2 1 (3.23%) .NET
2 1 (3.23%) .NET Core
2 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.23%) Kafka
2 1 (3.23%) MSMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Derivative
2 4 (12.90%) Equities
2 4 (12.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (12.90%) Hedge funds
3 2 (6.45%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.45%) Equity Derivative
3 2 (6.45%) Fixed Income
3 2 (6.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (19.35%) Agile
1 6 (19.35%) Computer Science
2 5 (16.13%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (12.90%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (12.90%) Collaborative Culture
3 4 (12.90%) Data Governance
3 4 (12.90%) Data Lineage
3 4 (12.90%) Decision-Making
3 4 (12.90%) Machine Learning
3 4 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (12.90%) Regtech
3 4 (12.90%) System Integration Testing
4 3 (9.68%) Microservices
4 3 (9.68%) TDD
5 2 (6.45%) CI/CD
5 2 (6.45%) Collateral Management
5 2 (6.45%) Design Patterns
5 2 (6.45%) OO
5 2 (6.45%) OOD
5 2 (6.45%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 12 (38.71%) SQL
2 7 (22.58%) Java
3 3 (9.68%) C#
4 2 (6.45%) C++
5 1 (3.23%) Kotlin
5 1 (3.23%) Perl
5 1 (3.23%) Python
5 1 (3.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (19.35%) Degree
2 4 (12.90%) Master's Degree
2 4 (12.90%) PhD
3 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (67.74%) EMIR
2 14 (45.16%) Dodd-Frank
3 2 (6.45%) SEPA
4 1 (3.23%) FATCA
Vendors
1 2 (6.45%) Bloomberg
1 2 (6.45%) Reuters
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle
2 1 (3.23%) Sybase