ION Trading Contracts with Work from Home Options

ION Trading
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 knowledge and experience of ION Trading products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ION Trading over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within ION Trading.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 327 425 590
Rank change year-on-year +98 +165 -129
Contract jobs citing ION Trading 19 47 33
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.18% 0.074%
As % of the Vendors category 0.29% 0.42% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 47 30
10th Percentile £699 £618 -
25th Percentile £775 £688 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £750 £775
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -3.23% +14.81%
75th Percentile £900 £863 £838
90th Percentile £923 £875 -
UK median daily rate £800 £700 £750
% change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% +15.38%

All Vendors
Work from Home

ION Trading is in the Vendor Products and Services 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 knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,501 11,159 17,409
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.55% 43.15% 39.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,020 7,514 11,847
10th Percentile £325 £330 £345
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 259 258
10th Percentile £13.85 £17.92 £13.32
25th Percentile £16.85 £32.13 £18.75
Median hourly rate £29.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.27% +57.14% +2.94%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £52.44
90th Percentile £70.50 £80.25 £66.23
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
% change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%

ION Trading
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

ION Trading trend for jobs with a WFH option

ION Trading
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 ION Trading.

ION Trading daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

ION Trading
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing ION Trading over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

ION Trading daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

ION Trading
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (21.05%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (21.05%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Endur
2 2 (10.53%) ION MarketView
3 1 (5.26%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.26%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (26.32%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) KDB
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) JIRA
1 4 (21.05%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (63.16%) Front Office
2 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.79%) Banking
4 3 (15.79%) Finance
5 2 (10.53%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Developer
2 5 (26.32%) Analyst
2 5 (26.32%) Business Analyst
2 5 (26.32%) Java Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Credit Analyst
3 4 (21.05%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
3 4 (21.05%) Front Office Business Analyst
3 4 (21.05%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
3 4 (21.05%) Java Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Java Software Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Software Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Senior
4 3 (15.79%) Senior Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Endur Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Energy Trading Developer
5 2 (10.53%) OpenLink Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Low Latency Java Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (21.05%) XML
3 2 (10.53%) Spring
4 1 (5.26%) .NET
4 1 (5.26%) HTML
4 1 (5.26%) HTML5
4 1 (5.26%) Kafka
4 1 (5.26%) React
4 1 (5.26%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 10 (52.63%) Fixed Income
2 5 (26.32%) Derivative
3 2 (10.53%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.26%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Unix
2 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Electronic Trading
2 8 (42.11%) Low Latency
3 5 (26.32%) Agile
3 5 (26.32%) Risk Management
4 4 (21.05%) B2C
4 4 (21.05%) Business Analysis
4 4 (21.05%) Computer Science
4 4 (21.05%) Data Modelling
4 4 (21.05%) Fintech
4 4 (21.05%) Project Management
4 4 (21.05%) Software Engineering
4 4 (21.05%) UML
5 3 (15.79%) Multithreading
5 3 (15.79%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (10.53%) BDD
6 2 (10.53%) TDD
6 2 (10.53%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (5.26%) Functional Programming
7 1 (5.26%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) Java
2 5 (26.32%) SQL
3 1 (5.26%) C#
3 1 (5.26%) Python
3 1 (5.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) Degree
2 4 (21.05%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) BladeLogic
1 1 (5.26%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Bloomberg
2 5 (26.32%) MarketAxess
2 5 (26.32%) Tradeweb
3 3 (15.79%) OpenLink
4 1 (5.26%) Reuters
4 1 (5.26%) Solace
4 1 (5.26%) TIBCO