ION Trading Contract Job Trends 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 4 August 2026, 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 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 121 121
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 +28
Contract jobs citing ION Trading 3 8 9
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.13% 0.43% 0.44%
As % of the Vendors category 0.30% 0.90% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 6
10th Percentile - £674 £775
25th Percentile £225 £831 £778
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £975 £825
Median % change year-on-year -74.36% +18.18% -2.37%
75th Percentile £275 £1,100 £850
90th Percentile - - £856
Central London median daily rate £250 £975 £825
% change year-on-year -74.36% +18.18% -2.37%

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 1,002 884 907
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.05% 47.20% 43.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 679 570 644
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.79%
75th Percentile £659 £675 £666
90th Percentile £750 £750 £762
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -2.27% +2.23% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 11
10th Percentile - £22.53 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.91 £19.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £38.58 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.45% +42.87% -25.52%
75th Percentile £25.12 £63.75 £115.00
90th Percentile £42.13 £89.67 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £32.83 £34.25
% change year-on-year -31.45% -4.16% +37.00%

ION Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ION Trading relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

ION Trading job vacancy trend in the City of London

ION Trading
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing ION Trading.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing ION Trading

ION Trading
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Internet
2 1 (33.33%) Multicast
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Artifactory
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
2 1 (33.33%) Front Office
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Applications Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Applications Support
1 2 (66.67%) Applications Support Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Help Desk Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Electronic Trading
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Algorithmic Trading
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Fintech
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) C++
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) SCCM
2 1 (33.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) Bloomberg
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Reuters
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow