ION Trading Contracts in the City of London

ION Trading
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 12 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
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 127 154
Rank change year-on-year +14 +27 +31
Contract jobs citing ION Trading 7 3 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.40% 0.14% 0.51%
As % of the Vendors category 0.90% 0.32% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 14
10th Percentile £656 £783 -
25th Percentile £744 £794 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £975 £825 £650
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +26.92% -10.34%
75th Percentile £1,094 £844 £873
90th Percentile £1,100 £848 £958
Central London median daily rate £975 £825 £650
% change year-on-year +18.18% +26.92% -10.34%

All Vendors
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 775 945 1,394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 44.39% 43.35% 39.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 695 916
10th Percentile £313 £313 £263
25th Percentile £450 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.27% +2.32%
75th Percentile £675 £682 £700
90th Percentile £751 £789 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 6
10th Percentile £25.77 £12.75 £18.42
25th Percentile £30.10 £13.56 £20.42
Median hourly rate £38.58 £19.75 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +95.32% -5.95% -11.28%
75th Percentile £72.81 £23.75 £44.86
90th Percentile £126.25 £25.38 £53.25
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £19.75 £21.00
% change year-on-year +56.96% -5.95% -20.27%

ION Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for ION Trading in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ION Trading in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for ION Trading in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ION Trading in the City of London over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ION Trading in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
3 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) MVC
3 1 (14.29%) OO
3 1 (14.29%) Order Management
3 1 (14.29%) Smart Order Routing
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
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