ION Trading Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

ION Trading
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 13 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
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ION Trading 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 0.45% - -
As % of the Vendors category 1.18% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £750 £850 £850
% change year-on-year -11.76% - +21.43%

All Vendors
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 85 104 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 38.29% 44.26% 47.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 50 32
10th Percentile £249 £200 £167
25th Percentile £415 £316 £187
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £418 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -7.22% +9.09%
75th Percentile £658 £529 £575
90th Percentile £694 £593 £648
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +2.00% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 16 15
10th Percentile £27.55 £12.31 £12.25
25th Percentile £39.88 £12.57 £21.19
Median hourly rate £44.50 £13.60 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +227.21% -43.76% +51.13%
75th Percentile - £15.88 £31.88
90th Percentile - £23.63 £40.25
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -13.28% -28.95%

ION Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

ION Trading job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

ION Trading
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 13 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
County Antrim - 1 - -
ION Trading
UK

ION Trading
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) KDB
1 1 (100.00%) Kdb+
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) KDB Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (100.00%) Equities
1 1 (100.00%) Fixed Income
1 1 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Solace