ION Trading Contracts

ION Trading
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of ION Trading products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ION Trading over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 507 549 693
Rank change year-on-year +42 +144 -76
Contract jobs citing ION Trading 72 145 170
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.25% 0.19%
As % of the Vendors category 0.40% 0.59% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 122 154
10th Percentile £738 £538 £565
25th Percentile £775 £550 £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £675 £750
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% -10.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £900 £850 £800
90th Percentile £1,025 £874 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Vendors
UK

ION Trading is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,083 24,657 35,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.51% 43.06% 40.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,274 16,502 23,585
10th Percentile £263 £270 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £644 £638
90th Percentile £738 £740 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £468
% change year-on-year - +6.95% +7.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,114 666 891
10th Percentile £12.05 £15.11 £12.21
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.50 £40.55 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.97% +88.58% -2.27%
75th Percentile £57.33 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £33.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -34.97% +73.68% +0.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ION Trading as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ION Trading in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ION Trading.

Daily rate trend for ION Trading in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ION Trading over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ION Trading in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ION Trading.

Hourly rate trend for ION Trading in the UK

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Top 3 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
England +41 71 £850 +25.93% 9
London +30 71 £850 +25.93% 9
Work from Home +98 20 £850 +13.33% 4

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (15.28%) Confluence
2 7 (9.72%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (15.28%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (15.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 11 (15.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 28 (38.89%) ION MarketView
2 15 (20.83%) ION Anvil
3 4 (5.56%) Endur
4 3 (4.17%) IntelliMatch
4 3 (4.17%) RMDS
5 1 (1.39%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 1 (1.39%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 13 (18.06%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (33.33%) KDB
2 7 (9.72%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (22.22%) TeamCity
2 13 (18.06%) JIRA
3 3 (4.17%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (2.78%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.78%) Gradle
4 2 (2.78%) IntelliJ
General
1 30 (41.67%) Front Office
2 22 (30.56%) Banking
2 22 (30.56%) Finance
3 14 (19.44%) Investment Banking
4 13 (18.06%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (13.89%) Social Skills
6 5 (6.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.39%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 35 (48.61%) Developer
2 31 (43.06%) Java Developer
3 16 (22.22%) Business Analyst
4 14 (19.44%) Senior
4 14 (19.44%) Senior Developer
5 12 (16.67%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
5 12 (16.67%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
5 12 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
6 11 (15.28%) Front Office Business Analyst
7 10 (13.89%) Lead
7 10 (13.89%) Technical Leader
8 8 (11.11%) Analyst
9 7 (9.72%) Electronic Trading Developer
9 7 (9.72%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
10 6 (8.33%) FIX Business Analyst
11 4 (5.56%) Credit Analyst
11 4 (5.56%) Java Engineer
11 4 (5.56%) Java Software Engineer
11 4 (5.56%) Software Engineer
12 2 (2.78%) Endur Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (36.11%) FIX Protocol
2 14 (19.44%) XML
3 10 (13.89%) Spring
4 4 (5.56%) React
5 3 (4.17%) HTML
5 3 (4.17%) HTML5
6 2 (2.78%) JSON
6 2 (2.78%) Kafka
6 2 (2.78%) REST
7 1 (1.39%) .NET
7 1 (1.39%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 43 (59.72%) Fixed Income
2 25 (34.72%) Derivative
3 14 (19.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 12 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (9.72%) Algorithms
5 7 (9.72%) Data Structures
5 7 (9.72%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (6.94%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (4.17%) Equities
9 2 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (2.78%) Virtual Team
10 1 (1.39%) EFT
10 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (1.39%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (1.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 24 (33.33%) Unix
2 20 (27.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (58.33%) Electronic Trading
2 29 (40.28%) Agile
3 25 (34.72%) Low Latency
4 24 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 23 (31.94%) Multithreading
6 22 (30.56%) Risk Management
6 22 (30.56%) User Acceptance Testing
7 21 (29.17%) Continuous Integration
8 13 (18.06%) TDD
9 12 (16.67%) Computer Science
9 12 (16.67%) E-Commerce
9 12 (16.67%) Multithreaded Programming
9 12 (16.67%) UML
10 11 (15.28%) Data Modelling
10 11 (15.28%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (12.50%) CI/CD
11 9 (12.50%) Design Patterns
11 9 (12.50%) OO
12 8 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (9.72%) Critical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 49 (68.06%) Java
2 13 (18.06%) C#
3 12 (16.67%) SQL
4 6 (8.33%) Python
5 4 (5.56%) C++
6 3 (4.17%) Scala
7 2 (2.78%) Perl
8 1 (1.39%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 18 (25.00%) Degree
2 5 (6.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.39%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (19.44%) QA
2 9 (12.50%) EMIR
3 8 (11.11%) Dodd-Frank
3 8 (11.11%) MiFID
Vendors
1 17 (23.61%) Bloomberg
1 17 (23.61%) Tradeweb
2 15 (20.83%) MarketAxess
3 3 (4.17%) OpenLink
3 3 (4.17%) Solace
4 2 (2.78%) Calypso
4 2 (2.78%) Murex
5 1 (1.39%) Charles River
5 1 (1.39%) SAP
5 1 (1.39%) Wallstreet Suite