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 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 116 129
Rank change year-on-year -4 +13 +50
Contract jobs citing MiFID 7 12 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.39% 0.56% 0.42%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.91% 3.65% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 9
10th Percentile £506 £440 £603
25th Percentile £516 - £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £500 £750
Median % change year-on-year +22.50% -33.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £814 £538 £850
90th Percentile £951 £665 £910
Central London median daily rate £600 £500 £750
% change year-on-year +20.00% -33.33% +20.97%

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 366 329 425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.37% 15.40% 16.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 178 314
10th Percentile £315 £348 £400
25th Percentile £413 £457 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £566 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% -1.52% -0.86%
75th Percentile £685 £675 £692
90th Percentile £825 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £580
% change year-on-year -2.27% -5.17% +0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £26.53 - -
25th Percentile £26.57 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 - £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +271.79%
75th Percentile £56.75 - £73.75
90th Percentile £75.95 - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.24 £35.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -2.17% -51.72% +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 10 December 2025.

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:

Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Aladdin
1 1 (14.29%) Fidessa
1 1 (14.29%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Run
1 1 (14.29%) Figma
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
1 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Banking
3 2 (28.57%) Financial Institution
3 2 (28.57%) Investment Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Front Office
4 1 (14.29%) Legal
4 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
4 1 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Architect
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Technical Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) C# Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (14.29%) MiFID Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Delivery Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Technical Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Transformation Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Delivery Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
2 1 (14.29%) FastAPI
2 1 (14.29%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (14.29%) LangGraph
2 1 (14.29%) Playwright
2 1 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (14.29%) React
2 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Derivative
2 1 (14.29%) ASIC
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Fixed Income
2 1 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (14.29%) Genomics
2 1 (14.29%) Life Science
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Regulatory Change
3 1 (14.29%) API Development
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
3 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (14.29%) Impact Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) Microservices
3 1 (14.29%) Multithreaded Programming
3 1 (14.29%) Order Management
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (14.29%) Target Operating Model
3 1 (14.29%) Transcriptomics
3 1 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) EMIR
2 1 (14.29%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Google
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) Portware