Aladdin Contract Job Trends

BlackRock Aladdin
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Aladdin skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 596 470 553
Rank change year-on-year -126 +83 +79
Contract jobs citing Aladdin 63 80 40
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.24% 0.094%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.66% 2.95% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 63 34
10th Percentile £413 - -
25th Percentile £553 £538 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £725 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +31.82% -21.43%
75th Percentile £803 £788 £688
90th Percentile £838 £865 £744
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 3,796 2,710 3,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.21% 8.29% 7.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,119 1,536 1,822
10th Percentile £363 £377 £363
25th Percentile £451 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - -
75th Percentile £650 £669 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 65 118
10th Percentile £20.31 £20.19 £18.25
25th Percentile £30.00 £30.25 £25.25
Median hourly rate £52.00 £57.50 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +42.59% -19.35%
75th Percentile £71.91 £70.00 £58.44
90th Percentile £90.30 £85.60 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £60.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -20.83% +50.00% -27.27%

Aladdin
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Aladdin job vacancy trend in the UK

Aladdin
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Aladdin.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Aladdin

Aladdin
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Aladdin over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Aladdin in the UK

Aladdin
Top 6 Contract Job 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 13 July 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
England -127 61 £700 -3.45% 10
London -81 60 £700 -3.45% 10
Work from Home -100 20 £775 +6.90% 1
Midlands - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -
UK excluding London - 1 - - 2

Aladdin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.17%) Confluence
2 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (6.35%) MS Visio
3 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (11.11%) SimCorp Dimension
2 6 (9.52%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 22 (34.92%) Snowflake
2 14 (22.22%) Azure
3 13 (20.63%) AWS
4 8 (12.70%) Power Platform
5 7 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (11.11%) dbt
6 4 (6.35%) Amazon S3
6 4 (6.35%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (6.35%) Serverless
7 3 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (4.76%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 2 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.17%) Collibra
8 2 (3.17%) GitHub
8 2 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.59%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.59%) Azure Stack
9 1 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.59%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.59%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.11%) Power BI
2 5 (7.94%) Snowflake Schema
3 4 (6.35%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (6.35%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.76%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.59%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (1.59%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (17.46%) JIRA
2 5 (7.94%) SpecFlow
3 3 (4.76%) JMeter
3 3 (4.76%) LoadRunner
3 3 (4.76%) Toad
4 2 (3.17%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.59%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.59%) Git
5 1 (1.59%) Postman
5 1 (1.59%) Robot Framework
5 1 (1.59%) Selenium
General
1 42 (66.67%) Finance
2 22 (34.92%) Front Office
3 16 (25.40%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (25.40%) Social Skills
4 11 (17.46%) Banking
5 9 (14.29%) Investment Banking
6 8 (12.70%) Back Office
7 3 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.59%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.59%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.59%) Law
9 1 (1.59%) Legal
9 1 (1.59%) Military
9 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (31.75%) Analyst
2 18 (28.57%) Business Analyst
3 11 (17.46%) Data Engineer
4 7 (11.11%) Lead
4 7 (11.11%) Senior
4 7 (11.11%) Snowflake Engineer
5 6 (9.52%) Asset Management Analyst
5 6 (9.52%) Asset Management Business Analyst
5 6 (9.52%) Developer
5 6 (9.52%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 6 (9.52%) SQL Developer
6 5 (7.94%) Python Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) Tester
7 4 (6.35%) Automation Tester
7 4 (6.35%) Python Data Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Python Developer
7 4 (6.35%) Regulatory Business Analyst
7 4 (6.35%) Regulatory Reporting Business Analyst
7 4 (6.35%) Report Analyst
8 3 (4.76%) SQL Server BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.94%) Playwright
2 3 (4.76%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (3.17%) .NET
3 2 (3.17%) RESTful
4 1 (1.59%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.59%) Great Expectations
4 1 (1.59%) Jest
4 1 (1.59%) Jinja
4 1 (1.59%) Node.js
4 1 (1.59%) Pandas
4 1 (1.59%) PySpark
4 1 (1.59%) pytest
4 1 (1.59%) React
4 1 (1.59%) REST
4 1 (1.59%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 17 (26.98%) Fixed Income
2 13 (20.63%) Equities
3 11 (17.46%) Derivative
4 10 (15.87%) Reference Data
5 7 (11.11%) Cloud Native
5 7 (11.11%) Data Structures
6 6 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (6.35%) Product Ownership
8 3 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (3.17%) ASIC
9 2 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (3.17%) Management Information System
9 2 (3.17%) Onboarding
9 2 (3.17%) Virtual Team
10 1 (1.59%) Clustering
10 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (60.32%) Asset Management
2 27 (42.86%) Agile
3 23 (36.51%) Investment Management
4 19 (30.16%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (28.57%) Data Modelling
5 18 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
6 17 (26.98%) Test Automation
7 11 (17.46%) Analytics
7 11 (17.46%) CI/CD
7 11 (17.46%) Data Analysis
7 11 (17.46%) Scrum
7 11 (17.46%) User Acceptance Testing
7 11 (17.46%) Validation
8 10 (15.87%) Data Engineering
8 10 (15.87%) Data Management
8 10 (15.87%) DevOps
8 10 (15.87%) Order Management
9 9 (14.29%) Data Mapping
9 9 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
9 9 (14.29%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (46.03%) SQL
2 24 (38.10%) Python
3 6 (9.52%) JavaScript
4 5 (7.94%) C#
4 5 (7.94%) TypeScript
5 2 (3.17%) Java
6 1 (1.59%) Korn
Qualifications
1 8 (12.70%) Degree
2 4 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.59%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.94%) Data Quality
1 5 (7.94%) EMIR
2 4 (6.35%) QA
3 2 (3.17%) AIFMD
3 2 (3.17%) MiFID
4 1 (1.59%) GDPR
4 1 (1.59%) IFRS
4 1 (1.59%) PMO
4 1 (1.59%) Solvency II
Systems Management
1 1 (1.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (28.57%) Charles River
2 16 (25.40%) Microsoft
3 9 (14.29%) Databricks
3 9 (14.29%) SimCorp
4 7 (11.11%) Murex
5 6 (9.52%) Bloomberg
6 5 (7.94%) FactSet
7 3 (4.76%) CA Agile Central
7 3 (4.76%) eFront
7 3 (4.76%) Eze Software Group
7 3 (4.76%) MarketAxess
7 3 (4.76%) Tradeweb
8 2 (3.17%) Calypso
9 1 (1.59%) Avaloq
9 1 (1.59%) FNZ
9 1 (1.59%) Informatica
9 1 (1.59%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.59%) StatPro
9 1 (1.59%) Talend
9 1 (1.59%) Temenos