Alibaba Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Alibaba
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 20 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
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 208 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Alibaba 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.042% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.090% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 - -
England median daily rate £850 - -

All Vendors
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,223 1,644 2,226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 46.92% 45.95% 47.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,448 927 1,424
10th Percentile £250 £250 £230
25th Percentile £363 £394 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £587
90th Percentile £678 £675 £674
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 69 99
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.07 £20.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.83 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -7.14% +62.79%
75th Percentile £56.69 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £77.05 £81.63 £60.00
England median hourly rate £23.75 £30.78 £45.88
% change year-on-year -22.84% -32.91% +77.76%

Alibaba
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Alibaba job vacancy trend in the North of England

Alibaba
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Alibaba.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Alibaba

Alibaba
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Alibaba within the North of England region over the 6 months to 20 December 2025. 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
Yorkshire - 2 £406 -
Alibaba
England

Alibaba
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (100.00%) OpenID
1 2 (100.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) GAP Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Privileged Identity Management
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform