Aladdin Contract Job Trends in the City of London

BlackRock Aladdin
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Aladdin skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 114 124
Rank change year-on-year -3 +10 +39
Contract jobs citing Aladdin 13 7 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.55% 0.42% 0.093%
As % of the Business Applications category 6.47% 4.43% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 2
10th Percentile £564 £494 £678
25th Percentile £575 £675 £681
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - +21.74%
75th Percentile £813 £725 £719
90th Percentile £891 £875 £723
Central London median daily rate £750 £700 £700
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +21.74%

All Business Application Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 201 158 157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.58% 9.40% 7.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 96 105
10th Percentile £356 £299 £427
25th Percentile £500 £431 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +14.23% -12.46% -4.00%
75th Percentile £725 £703 £688
90th Percentile £825 £831 £833
Central London median daily rate £600 £532 £588
% change year-on-year +12.89% -9.53% -2.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile - £17.83 -
25th Percentile £18.75 £25.06 £22.00
Median hourly rate £19.50 £37.75 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.34% +64.13% -
75th Percentile £20.25 £51.06 £24.00
90th Percentile - £58.68 -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 £37.75 £23.00
% change year-on-year -48.34% +64.13% -

Aladdin
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Aladdin job vacancy trend in the City of London

Aladdin
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Aladdin.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Aladdin

Aladdin
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Aladdin in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Aladdin in the City of London

Aladdin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) AWS
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) dbt
2 1 (7.69%) SaaS
2 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 10 (76.92%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Back Office
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Front Office
3 1 (7.69%) General Ledger
3 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (15.38%) Analyst
1 2 (15.38%) Business Analyst
1 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 2 (15.38%) Implementation Engineer
1 2 (15.38%) Senior
2 1 (7.69%) Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Specialist
2 1 (7.69%) Compliance Specialist
2 1 (7.69%) Coordinator
2 1 (7.69%) Data Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Functional Business Analyst
2 1 (7.69%) Implementation Coordinator
2 1 (7.69%) Lead
2 1 (7.69%) QA Coordinator
2 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (7.69%) Senior Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Snowflake Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) RESTful
2 1 (7.69%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) Jinja
2 1 (7.69%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Data Structures
2 2 (15.38%) Fixed Income
2 2 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
2 2 (15.38%) Reference Data
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.69%) Clustering
3 1 (7.69%) Derivative
3 1 (7.69%) Equities
3 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Asset Management
2 5 (38.46%) Migration
3 4 (30.77%) Data Mapping
3 4 (30.77%) Investment Management
3 4 (30.77%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (23.08%) Analytics
4 3 (23.08%) API Integration
4 3 (23.08%) Data Modelling
4 3 (23.08%) Data Transformation
4 3 (23.08%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (15.38%) Data Integration
5 2 (15.38%) ETL
5 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven
5 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (15.38%) Impact Analysis
5 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
5 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (7.69%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Python
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
1 1 (7.69%) IFRS
1 1 (7.69%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (69.23%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Charles River
2 1 (7.69%) SimCorp