Aladdin Contracts

BlackRock Aladdin
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Aladdin skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Aladdin over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 453 562 671
Rank change year-on-year +109 +109 +139
Contract jobs citing Aladdin 66 38 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.087% 0.070%
As % of the Business Applications category 2.75% 1.17% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 34 34
10th Percentile £500 - £470
25th Percentile £538 £500 £634
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £600 £750
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £788 £678 £775
90th Percentile £838 £725 £868
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Business Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 2,403 3,240 3,813
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.22% 7.43% 6.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,353 1,893 2,192
10th Percentile £400 £363 £363
25th Percentile £475 £463 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% - -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £788 £775 £794
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £527
% change year-on-year +4.76% -0.38% +0.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 110 56
10th Percentile £22.27 £14.71 £21.25
25th Percentile £40.00 £21.25 £29.21
Median hourly rate £60.00 £43.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +37.14% -7.89% +35.71%
75th Percentile £77.50 £59.82 £63.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £65.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £45.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% -8.16% +108.29%

Aladdin
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Aladdin as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Aladdin in the UK

Aladdin
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Aladdin.

Daily rate trend for Aladdin in the UK

Aladdin
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Aladdin over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Aladdin in the UK

Aladdin
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Aladdin within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +89 64 £725 +20.83% 32
London +61 64 £725 +20.83% 32
Work from Home +105 60 £725 +3.57% 26

Aladdin
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (21.21%) thinkFolio
2 2 (3.03%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 12 (18.18%) Azure
2 7 (10.61%) Snowflake
3 5 (7.58%) SaaS
4 4 (6.06%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.52%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.52%) dbt
6 1 (1.52%) GitHub
6 1 (1.52%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.52%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.52%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.06%) Power BI
1 4 (6.06%) Snowflake Schema
2 3 (4.55%) Data Lake
2 3 (4.55%) Star Schema
3 2 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.03%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.03%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.52%) Ataccama
4 1 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.52%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 2 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 49 (74.24%) Finance
2 38 (57.58%) Front Office
3 3 (4.55%) Back Office
3 3 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.52%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (65.15%) Analyst
2 36 (54.55%) Business Analyst
3 31 (46.97%) Business Manager
4 30 (45.45%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
5 9 (13.64%) Architect
6 6 (9.09%) Finance Business Analyst
6 6 (9.09%) Finance Manager
6 6 (9.09%) Financial Analyst
6 6 (9.09%) Performance Analyst
6 6 (9.09%) Performance Manager
7 5 (7.58%) Developer
7 5 (7.58%) Snowflake Developer
8 4 (6.06%) Applications Support
8 4 (6.06%) Applications Support Analyst
8 4 (6.06%) Consultant
8 4 (6.06%) Data Business Analyst
8 4 (6.06%) Support Analyst
9 3 (4.55%) Asset Management Business Analyst
9 3 (4.55%) Asset Management Consultant
9 3 (4.55%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.03%) .NET
1 2 (3.03%) .NET Core
1 2 (3.03%) .NET Framework
1 2 (3.03%) Entity Framework
1 2 (3.03%) LINQ
2 1 (1.52%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 38 (57.58%) Fixed Income
2 37 (56.06%) Derivative
3 36 (54.55%) Hedge funds
4 14 (21.21%) Onboarding
5 4 (6.06%) Clustering
5 4 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (4.55%) Data Structures
7 2 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (83.33%) Investment Management
2 49 (74.24%) Asset Management
3 40 (60.61%) Business Intelligence
4 37 (56.06%) Agile
4 37 (56.06%) Portfolio Management
5 31 (46.97%) Business Analysis
6 27 (40.91%) Analytics
7 18 (27.27%) User Acceptance Testing
8 16 (24.24%) Performance Attribution
8 16 (24.24%) Quantitative Research
9 15 (22.73%) Data Mapping
10 11 (16.67%) Data Modelling
11 7 (10.61%) ETL
12 6 (9.09%) Data Architecture
12 6 (9.09%) Data Governance
12 6 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
12 6 (9.09%) Performance Analysis
13 5 (7.58%) Data Integration
13 5 (7.58%) Data Protection
13 5 (7.58%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 47 (71.21%) SQL
2 37 (56.06%) Python
3 2 (3.03%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.52%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (3.03%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 36 (54.55%) BISAM
2 16 (24.24%) SimCorp
3 15 (22.73%) Charles River
4 14 (21.21%) Calypso
5 3 (4.55%) Murex
6 2 (3.03%) Bloomberg
6 2 (3.03%) eFront
6 2 (3.03%) FactSet
6 2 (3.03%) HP
6 2 (3.03%) Informatica
6 2 (3.03%) Salesforce
6 2 (3.03%) UiPath
7 1 (1.52%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.52%) Oracle