Aladdin Contract Job Trends in Central London

BlackRock Aladdin
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Aladdin skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 121 139
Rank change year-on-year -7 +18 +46
Contract jobs citing Aladdin 6 10 2
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.30% 0.44% 0.075%
As % of the Business Applications category 3.08% 5.29% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 2
10th Percentile £256 £538 £678
25th Percentile £325 £556 £681
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% - -
75th Percentile £700 - £719
90th Percentile £820 - £723
London median daily rate £650 £688 £625
% change year-on-year -5.45% +10.00% -10.71%

All Business Application Skills
Central London

Aladdin falls under the Business Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring business application skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 195 189 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 9.66% 8.26% 6.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 106 112
10th Percentile £313 £425 £413
25th Percentile £400 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% -8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £713
90th Percentile £738 £854 £775
London median daily rate £550 £551 £588
% change year-on-year -0.09% -6.30% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £15.49 -
25th Percentile £61.25 £21.86 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £30.40 -
Median % change year-on-year +105.63% - -
75th Percentile £63.75 £35.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £40.50 £33.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year +22.71% -61.18% +159.54%

Aladdin
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Aladdin job vacancy trend in Central London

Aladdin
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Aladdin.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Aladdin

Aladdin
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Aladdin in Central London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Aladdin in Central London

Aladdin
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Aladdin within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
City of London -1 6 £425 -26.09% 2
Aladdin
London

Aladdin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Fidessa
2 1 (16.67%) Eikon
2 1 (16.67%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
2 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) SpecFlow
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Front Office
3 2 (33.33%) Investment Banking
4 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
4 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Architect
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Technical Architect
2 1 (16.67%) C# Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) QA Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) .NET Core
1 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
1 1 (16.67%) ADO
1 1 (16.67%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) Playwright
1 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Fixed Income
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (16.67%) Derivative
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Data Mapping
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Architectural Design
4 1 (16.67%) Automated Trading
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
4 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Multithreaded Programming
4 1 (16.67%) Order Management
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C#
1 2 (33.33%) Python
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (16.67%) MiFID
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Bloomberg
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Portware
2 1 (16.67%) Reuters