ION Trading Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 287 326 430
Rank change year-on-year +39 +104 +169
Contract jobs citing ION Trading 17 19 47
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.17% 0.12% 0.18%
As % of the Vendors category 0.37% 0.29% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 18 47
10th Percentile £600 £699 £618
25th Percentile £734 £775 £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £850 £750
Median % change year-on-year - +13.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £875 £900 £863
90th Percentile £888 £923 £875
UK median daily rate £850 £800 £700
% change year-on-year +6.25% +14.29% -6.67%

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 4,540 6,506 11,129
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 45.84% 42.40% 43.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,959 4,024 7,488
10th Percentile £325 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% - -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 220 258
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.92 £17.87
25th Percentile £19.56 £16.93 £31.81
Median hourly rate £47.25 £32.31 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% -40.72% +55.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

ION Trading
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing ION Trading as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

ION Trading trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

ION Trading
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing ION Trading.

ION Trading daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

ION Trading
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing ION Trading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

ION Trading daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

ION Trading
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (5.88%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) Azure
1 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) KDB
1 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
1 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (88.24%) Front Office
2 10 (58.82%) Finance
3 9 (52.94%) Financial Institution
3 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
4 7 (41.18%) Banking
5 2 (11.76%) Investment Banking
6 1 (5.88%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Business Analyst
2 9 (52.94%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
2 9 (52.94%) Front Office Business Analyst
2 9 (52.94%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
3 7 (41.18%) Developer
4 6 (35.29%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 6 (35.29%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
4 6 (35.29%) Java Developer
5 5 (29.41%) Senior
5 5 (29.41%) Senior Developer
5 5 (29.41%) Senior Flex Developer
5 5 (29.41%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (11.76%) Analyst
6 2 (11.76%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
7 1 (5.88%) Analyst Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Software Analyst
7 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET
2 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (5.88%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (64.71%) Fixed Income
2 5 (29.41%) State Machine
3 1 (5.88%) Derivative
3 1 (5.88%) Equities
3 1 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) Electronic Trading
2 9 (52.94%) Business Analysis
2 9 (52.94%) Economics
2 9 (52.94%) Manual Testing
2 9 (52.94%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (52.94%) Product Management
2 9 (52.94%) Quantitative Research
2 9 (52.94%) Regression Testing
2 9 (52.94%) Test Automation
2 9 (52.94%) User Acceptance Testing
3 6 (35.29%) Multithreading
4 5 (29.41%) Concurrent Programming
4 5 (29.41%) Low Latency
4 5 (29.41%) Order Management
4 5 (29.41%) Smart Order Routing
5 3 (17.65%) Test Strategy
6 1 (5.88%) Agile
6 1 (5.88%) KYC
6 1 (5.88%) MVC
6 1 (5.88%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Java
2 1 (5.88%) C#
2 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.88%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) Ruby
2 1 (5.88%) SQL
2 1 (5.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) EMIR
2 1 (5.88%) MiFID
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Solace
2 1 (5.88%) Bloomberg
2 1 (5.88%) CQG
2 1 (5.88%) Reuters