MiFID Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring MiFID skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 111 123
Rank change year-on-year -28 +12 +27
Contract jobs citing MiFID 4 16 5
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.17% 0.89% 0.24%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.92% 4.58% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 15 3
10th Percentile £498 £518 £423
25th Percentile £531 £633 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +33.33% -30.00%
75th Percentile £753 £725 £644
90th Percentile £759 £733 £708
Central London median daily rate £650 £700 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% +33.33% -30.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
City of London

MiFID falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 436 349 339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 18.80% 19.39% 16.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 247 214
10th Percentile £400 £329 £363
25th Percentile £465 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £675
90th Percentile £773 £825 £751
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £551
% change year-on-year - -0.18% -8.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - £23.83 £16.60
25th Percentile - £26.57 £17.50
Median hourly rate - £34.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +70.00% -
75th Percentile - £56.75 £22.50
90th Percentile - £75.95 £23.40
Central London median hourly rate £46.66 £34.00 £23.40
% change year-on-year +37.24% +45.30% -

MiFID
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MiFID relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

MiFID job vacancy trend in the City of London

MiFID
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing MiFID.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing MiFID

MiFID
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MiFID in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for MiFID in the City of London

MiFID
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 27 August 2026. 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
Moorgate - 1 £475 -
MiFID
Central London

MiFID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) dbt
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
1 2 (50.00%) Snowflake
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Charles River Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Compliance Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Finance Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Financial Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Financial Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Data Strategy
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Economics
2 1 (25.00%) Investment Management
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) EMIR
2 2 (50.00%) GDPR
3 1 (25.00%) UCITS
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Charles River
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft