Aladdin Contract Job Trends in London

BlackRock Aladdin
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Aladdin skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 320 331
Rank change year-on-year -68 +11 +91
Contract jobs citing Aladdin 72 55 62
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.36% 0.41% 0.38%
As % of the Business Applications category 4.91% 4.43% 5.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 30 55
10th Percentile £513 £538 -
25th Percentile £628 £663 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £725 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +26.09% -17.86%
75th Percentile £788 £788 £731
90th Percentile £806 £875 -
England median daily rate £725 £725 £575
% change year-on-year - +26.09% -17.86%

All Business Application Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 1,465 1,241 1,204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.25% 9.27% 7.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 873 758 677
10th Percentile £400 £355 £375
25th Percentile £500 £425 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -
75th Percentile £713 £695 £716
90th Percentile £800 £835 £825
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 14 12
10th Percentile £18.75 £23.30 £24.59
25th Percentile £25.25 £29.17 £29.22
Median hourly rate £57.00 £44.75 £49.18
Median % change year-on-year +27.37% -9.00% -7.21%
75th Percentile £82.35 £64.69 £80.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £86.75 £98.08
England median hourly rate £40.00 £42.75 £40.33
% change year-on-year -6.43% +6.01% -28.62%

Aladdin
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Aladdin job vacancy trend in London

Aladdin
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Aladdin

Aladdin
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Aladdin in London over the 6 months to 11 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Aladdin in London

Aladdin
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 11 October 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
Central London -21 8 £711 +1.61% 8
Aladdin
England

Aladdin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.39%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (6.94%) Fidessa
2 4 (5.56%) SimCorp Dimension
3 1 (1.39%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (1.39%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 15 (20.83%) Snowflake
2 13 (18.06%) Azure
3 11 (15.28%) Power Platform
4 9 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (11.11%) dbt
6 3 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.17%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 2 (2.78%) AWS
7 2 (2.78%) Serverless
8 1 (1.39%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.39%) Azure Databricks
8 1 (1.39%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.39%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.39%) Collibra
8 1 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.39%) GitHub
8 1 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.39%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.39%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.39%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.89%) Power BI
2 7 (9.72%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (5.56%) Snowflake Schema
4 3 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (2.78%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.78%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.39%) Metadata
6 1 (1.39%) QlikView
6 1 (1.39%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.39%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 9 (12.50%) JIRA
2 4 (5.56%) JMeter
2 4 (5.56%) LoadRunner
3 3 (4.17%) Git
4 2 (2.78%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.39%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.39%) Postman
5 1 (1.39%) Robot Framework
General
1 36 (50.00%) Finance
2 21 (29.17%) Front Office
3 19 (26.39%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (22.22%) Social Skills
5 8 (11.11%) Banking
6 6 (8.33%) Back Office
6 6 (8.33%) Investment Banking
7 3 (4.17%) Legal
8 2 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.78%) Law
9 1 (1.39%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 20 (27.78%) Consultant
2 11 (15.28%) Data Engineer
3 9 (12.50%) Analyst
3 9 (12.50%) Data Consultant
4 8 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 8 (11.11%) Lead
4 8 (11.11%) Senior
5 7 (9.72%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 7 (9.72%) Snowflake Engineer
6 6 (8.33%) Developer
6 6 (8.33%) SQL Developer
7 5 (6.94%) Python Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Data Analyst
8 4 (5.56%) Project Manager
8 4 (5.56%) Python Data Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Report Analyst
8 4 (5.56%) Snowflake Developer
8 4 (5.56%) Test Leader
9 3 (4.17%) Senior Data Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) SQL Server BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.33%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (2.78%) Playwright
2 2 (2.78%) PySpark
3 1 (1.39%) Django
3 1 (1.39%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.39%) Flask
3 1 (1.39%) Great Expectations
3 1 (1.39%) HTML
3 1 (1.39%) JSON
3 1 (1.39%) Pandas
3 1 (1.39%) pytest
3 1 (1.39%) React
3 1 (1.39%) Swagger
3 1 (1.39%) Terraform
3 1 (1.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (20.83%) Fixed Income
2 13 (18.06%) Equities
3 10 (13.89%) Data Structures
4 9 (12.50%) Reference Data
5 8 (11.11%) Derivative
6 5 (6.94%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (6.94%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.78%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.78%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.78%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.39%) ASIC
8 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.39%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.39%) Swaptions
8 1 (1.39%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (58.33%) Investment Management
2 41 (56.94%) Asset Management
3 24 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 22 (30.56%) Agile
5 14 (19.44%) Data Analysis
6 13 (18.06%) Analytics
6 13 (18.06%) Data Management
6 13 (18.06%) Scrum
6 13 (18.06%) User Acceptance Testing
7 12 (16.67%) Data Architecture
7 12 (16.67%) Data Mapping
7 12 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (16.67%) Validation
7 12 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
8 11 (15.28%) Data Modelling
8 11 (15.28%) Data Pipeline
8 11 (15.28%) Data Transformation
9 10 (13.89%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (13.89%) Migration
9 10 (13.89%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (36.11%) SQL
2 15 (20.83%) Python
3 5 (6.94%) Korn
4 3 (4.17%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.17%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.78%) C#
5 2 (2.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (4.17%) Degree
2 2 (2.78%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (23.61%) Data Quality
2 6 (8.33%) EMIR
3 4 (5.56%) MiFID
3 4 (5.56%) QA
4 2 (2.78%) AIFMD
5 1 (1.39%) PMO
5 1 (1.39%) Solvency II
Systems Management
1 1 (1.39%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 16 (22.22%) Charles River
2 12 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 11 (15.28%) Databricks
4 9 (12.50%) Bloomberg
4 9 (12.50%) SimCorp
5 6 (8.33%) eFront
6 5 (6.94%) FactSet
6 5 (6.94%) MarketAxess
6 5 (6.94%) Tradeweb
7 2 (2.78%) Avaloq
7 2 (2.78%) Informatica
8 1 (1.39%) BEA
8 1 (1.39%) Calypso
8 1 (1.39%) GoldenSource
8 1 (1.39%) HP
8 1 (1.39%) Micro Focus
8 1 (1.39%) Murex
8 1 (1.39%) SGI
8 1 (1.39%) StatPro
8 1 (1.39%) Temenos