ION Trading Contract Job Trends in London

ION Trading
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 17 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
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 335 326
Rank change year-on-year -78 -9 +19
Contract jobs citing ION Trading 24 29 57
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.12% 0.21% 0.35%
As % of the Vendors category 0.28% 0.46% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 21 48
10th Percentile £300 £613 £743
25th Percentile £600 £750 £775
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £850 £850
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% - +21.43%
75th Percentile £850 £938 £938
90th Percentile £970 £1,100 £1,033
England median daily rate £750 £850 £850
% change year-on-year -11.76% - +21.43%

All Vendors
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,553 6,246 6,969
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.58% 46.06% 43.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,570 4,057 4,731
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £751
England median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 129 87
10th Percentile £18.14 £15.84 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.76 £22.90 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -4.36% -17.81%
75th Percentile £58.31 £40.00 £60.63
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.50
England median hourly rate £33.98 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +35.11% -16.17% -20.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

ION Trading job vacancy trend in London

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Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ION Trading in London over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ION Trading in London

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Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing ION Trading.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing ION Trading

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Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 17 August 2026. 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
Central London -13 4 £250 -74.36% 2
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (12.50%) MTS
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (12.50%) ION MarketView
2 2 (8.33%) Infor LN
3 1 (4.17%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (4.17%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (20.83%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (20.83%) Google Workspace
3 2 (8.33%) AtomSphere
3 2 (8.33%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 9 (37.50%) VPN
2 7 (29.17%) Firewall
2 7 (29.17%) TCP/IP
3 5 (20.83%) DMZ
4 2 (8.33%) DNS
4 2 (8.33%) Internet
4 2 (8.33%) Multicast
4 2 (8.33%) SSL
4 2 (8.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.33%) KDB
Development Applications
1 9 (37.50%) JIRA
2 4 (16.67%) Artifactory
2 4 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.33%) Bitbucket
3 2 (8.33%) Git
General
1 20 (83.33%) Finance
2 13 (54.17%) Front Office
3 12 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 9 (37.50%) Banking
5 8 (33.33%) Back Office
5 8 (33.33%) Investment Banking
6 5 (20.83%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (8.33%) Financial Institution
7 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
8 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (4.17%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Analyst
2 7 (29.17%) Help Desk Analyst
2 7 (29.17%) IT Analyst
3 6 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
4 5 (20.83%) Applications Support
4 5 (20.83%) Applications Support Engineer
4 5 (20.83%) Business Analyst
4 5 (20.83%) Commodities Business Analyst
4 5 (20.83%) Support Engineer
5 4 (16.67%) Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Front Office Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Java Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Banking Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) .NET
2 2 (8.33%) EDI
2 2 (8.33%) EDIFACT
2 2 (8.33%) JSON
2 2 (8.33%) Middleware
2 2 (8.33%) OAuth
2 2 (8.33%) OAuth2
2 2 (8.33%) REST
2 2 (8.33%) SOAP
2 2 (8.33%) Web Services
2 2 (8.33%) XML
3 1 (4.17%) FpML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Onboarding
2 4 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (12.50%) Client/Server
3 3 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (12.50%) Fixed Income
3 3 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (8.33%) Data Structures
4 2 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (8.33%) Eurex
4 2 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (4.17%) Derivative
5 1 (4.17%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 11 (45.83%) Windows
2 6 (25.00%) Linux
3 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (37.50%) DevOps
3 8 (33.33%) Agile
4 7 (29.17%) CRM
4 7 (29.17%) ITIL
5 6 (25.00%) Data Analysis
5 6 (25.00%) Electronic Trading
5 6 (25.00%) Process Improvement
5 6 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (20.83%) Acceptance Criteria
6 5 (20.83%) Defect Management
6 5 (20.83%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (20.83%) Scenario Testing
6 5 (20.83%) Service Delivery
6 5 (20.83%) Service Management
6 5 (20.83%) Software Deployment
6 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (20.83%) User Acceptance Testing
6 5 (20.83%) User Stories
6 5 (20.83%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (45.83%) PowerShell
1 11 (45.83%) SQL
2 6 (25.00%) Java
3 4 (16.67%) Python
4 2 (8.33%) Bash
4 2 (8.33%) C++
4 2 (8.33%) Groovy
4 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.33%) Tcl
5 1 (4.17%) T-SQL
5 1 (4.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (12.50%) Degree
1 3 (12.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 3 (12.50%) MCSA
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.17%) PMP
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (29.17%) SCCM
2 5 (20.83%) WSUS
3 4 (16.67%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (8.33%) Ansible
4 2 (8.33%) Grafana
4 2 (8.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (41.67%) Bloomberg
2 7 (29.17%) Citrix
2 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 7 (29.17%) Reuters
3 4 (16.67%) Oracle
3 4 (16.67%) Splunk
4 3 (12.50%) MarketAxess
4 3 (12.50%) Tradeweb
5 2 (8.33%) Baan
5 2 (8.33%) Dynatrace
5 2 (8.33%) Infor
5 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
5 2 (8.33%) Sybase
6 1 (4.17%) Calypso
6 1 (4.17%) FIS
6 1 (4.17%) Google
6 1 (4.17%) Murex
6 1 (4.17%) SimCorp