Alibaba Contract Job Trends in London

Alibaba
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring knowledge or experience of Alibaba products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Alibaba over the 6 months leading up to 28 December 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 Alibaba Group Holding Limited.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 377 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Alibaba 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.021% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.044% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 - -
75th Percentile £875 - -
90th Percentile £890 - -
England median daily rate £850 £625 -
% change year-on-year +36.00% - -

All Vendors
London

Alibaba 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 requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,743 6,553 7,462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 47.02% 44.26% 40.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,395 4,097 5,128
10th Percentile £343 £313 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £649 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £756
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.43% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 69 108
10th Percentile £17.55 £19.66 £16.62
25th Percentile £22.13 £23.80 £23.50
Median hourly rate £25.74 £34.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.41% -8.00% +45.86%
75th Percentile £41.89 £63.75 £60.31
90th Percentile £67.13 £83.10 £86.50
England median hourly rate £23.54 £30.20 £45.55
% change year-on-year -22.06% -33.69% +75.17%

Alibaba
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Alibaba job vacancy trend in London

Alibaba
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Alibaba

Alibaba
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Product Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Smart Contracts
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DeFi
1 3 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Fintech
1 3 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
1 3 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 3 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 3 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C++
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Kotlin
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Rust