ION Trading Contracts in Central London

ION Trading
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring knowledge or experience of ION Trading products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ION Trading over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 128 157
Rank change year-on-year +8 +29 +33
Contract jobs citing ION Trading 7 2 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.35% 0.082% 0.49%
As % of the Vendors category 0.78% 0.19% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 14
10th Percentile £656 - -
25th Percentile £744 £775 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £975 £800 £650
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% +23.08% -10.34%
75th Percentile £1,094 £825 £873
90th Percentile £1,100 - £958
London median daily rate £850 £800 £700
% change year-on-year +6.25% +14.29% -6.67%

All Vendors
Central London

ION Trading falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 900 1,039 1,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 44.98% 42.83% 39.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 579 768 1,014
10th Percentile £312 £300 £250
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £675 £675 £694
90th Percentile £751 £775 £788
London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 8
10th Percentile £26.45 £12.75 £19.14
25th Percentile £28.23 £14.38 £20.81
Median hourly rate £31.00 £18.93 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.76% -11.95% +2.38%
75th Percentile £53.75 £23.75 £31.94
90th Percentile £100.00 £25.05 £53.05
London median hourly rate £29.00 £23.80 £30.38
% change year-on-year +21.85% -21.65% -13.21%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing ION Trading as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for ION Trading in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ION Trading in Central London.

Daily rate trend for ION Trading in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ION Trading in Central London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ION Trading in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ION Trading within the Central London region over the 6 months to 4 May 2025. 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
City of London +8 7 £975 +21.88% 1
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London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (42.86%) ION Anvil
2 1 (14.29%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) KDB
2 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) Maven
1 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
1 6 (85.71%) Front Office
2 4 (57.14%) Banking
2 4 (57.14%) Investment Banking
3 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Financial Institution
3 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Product Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Business Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Product Business Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Analyst Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Java Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Migration Manager
4 1 (14.29%) Migration Project Manager
4 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
4 1 (14.29%) Software Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (14.29%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Fixed Income
2 2 (28.57%) Derivative
3 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
3 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (14.29%) Equities
3 1 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
3 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 1 (14.29%) Reference Data
3 1 (14.29%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Risk Management
1 3 (42.86%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Collateral Management
2 2 (28.57%) Low Latency
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Project Management
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Automated Trading
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
3 1 (14.29%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 1 (14.29%) CRUD
3 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
3 1 (14.29%) KYC
3 1 (14.29%) Multithreading
3 1 (14.29%) Order Management
3 1 (14.29%) Smart Order Routing
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Ruby
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) EMIR
2 1 (14.29%) MiFID
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Bloomberg
1 1 (14.29%) CQG
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) Reuters
1 1 (14.29%) Solace
1 1 (14.29%) Sybase