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 1 March 2026, 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
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Alibaba 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.074% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.16% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £506 - -
25th Percentile £507 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 - -
75th Percentile £532 - -
90th Percentile £535 - -
England median daily rate £518 £625 -
% change year-on-year -17.20% - -

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 2,434 1,640 2,214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 45.16% 49.77% 45.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,578 999 1,354
10th Percentile £255 £234 £226
25th Percentile £376 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £477 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.20% -0.63% -4.00%
75th Percentile £581 £575 £575
90th Percentile £678 £669 £650
England median daily rate £508 £525 £518
% change year-on-year -3.33% +1.35% -3.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 64 186
10th Percentile £15.33 £19.00 £11.13
25th Percentile £19.75 £24.14 £13.99
Median hourly rate £31.00 £32.50 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +102.37% -44.62%
75th Percentile £59.50 £60.00 £26.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £86.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £24.00 £31.42 £26.00
% change year-on-year -23.62% +20.86% -21.80%

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 1 March 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
Yorkshire - 4 £518 - 2
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 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Functions
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Storage
2 3 (75.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) IaaS
General
1 3 (75.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) AI
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Deployment Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) LLM
2 3 (75.00%) Log Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Software Delivery
2 3 (75.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bash
1 3 (75.00%) Bicep
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (75.00%) Python
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Google
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) OpenAI
3 1 (25.00%) Splunk