Alibaba Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Alibaba
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 101 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Alibaba 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.42% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.74% - -
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 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £518 - -

All Vendors
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 537 142 231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 55.82% 49.82% 54.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 371 90 138
10th Percentile £350 £208 £223
25th Percentile £416 £268 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £476 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.04% +5.78% -14.29%
75th Percentile £558 £587 £585
90th Percentile £688 £650 £641
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £455 £450
% change year-on-year +9.89% +1.11% -12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £15.27 - -
25th Percentile £15.29 £15.22 £12.63
Median hourly rate £16.67 £16.19 £12.75
Median % change year-on-year +2.96% +26.98% -8.80%
75th Percentile £18.67 £17.16 £14.50
90th Percentile £19.07 - £40.30
Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £14.63
% change year-on-year - +88.03% -26.88%

Alibaba
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Alibaba job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Alibaba
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Alibaba.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Alibaba

Alibaba
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Alibaba within the South Yorkshire 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
Sheffield - 4 £518 - 1
Alibaba
Yorkshire

Alibaba
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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