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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 99 129
Rank change year-on-year -20 +30 +40
Contract jobs citing MiFID 7 13 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.38% 0.68% 0.29%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.83% 4.36% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 5
10th Percentile £503 £440 £533
25th Percentile £509 - £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -28.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £738
90th Percentile £686 £590 £760
Central London median daily rate £550 £500 £700
% change year-on-year +10.00% -28.57% +7.69%

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 383 298 390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.86% 15.68% 16.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 159 283
10th Percentile £325 £313 £400
25th Percentile £413 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £568 £560
Median % change year-on-year -7.49% +1.34% -6.67%
75th Percentile £676 £675 £680
90th Percentile £825 £775 £750
Central London median daily rate £525 £555 £575
% change year-on-year -5.41% -3.48% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £20.01 - -
25th Percentile £24.18 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £27.29 - £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +271.79%
75th Percentile £31.00 - £73.75
90th Percentile £33.70 - -
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £28.75 £72.50
% change year-on-year -9.18% -60.34% +249.40%

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 15 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for MiFID in the City of 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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (28.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Run
1 1 (14.29%) Figma
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Banking
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Front Office
1 3 (42.86%) Legal
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Investment Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
3 1 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Business Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) MiFID Business Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Lead
4 1 (14.29%) MiFID Project Manager
4 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
4 1 (14.29%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) FastAPI
1 1 (14.29%) LangGraph
1 1 (14.29%) Playwright
1 1 (14.29%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) ASIC
1 1 (14.29%) Derivative
1 1 (14.29%) DTCC
1 1 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (14.29%) Genomics
1 1 (14.29%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Data Analysis
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Impact Analysis
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Asset Management
3 2 (28.57%) Business Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Business Impact Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) GAP Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Product Governance
3 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Regulatory Change
3 2 (28.57%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 1 (14.29%) AI
4 1 (14.29%) Change Management
4 1 (14.29%) Regression Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) Validation
4 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) EMIR
1 2 (28.57%) PMO
2 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Bloomberg
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Murex