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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 456 552 641
Rank change year-on-year +96 +89 +153
Contract jobs citing Aladdin 78 40 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.094% 0.074%
As % of the Business Applications category 2.89% 1.29% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 34 39
10th Percentile - - £443
25th Percentile £538 £500 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% -21.43% +3.41%
75th Percentile £788 £688 £775
90th Percentile £870 £744 £794
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 2,698 3,101 4,033
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.29% 7.27% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,533 1,810 2,251
10th Percentile £375 £363 £369
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £665 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 112 65
10th Percentile £19.04 £18.25 £22.74
25th Percentile £30.19 £26.03 £41.25
Median hourly rate £53.50 £40.33 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.67% -19.35% +42.86%
75th Percentile £68.13 £59.61 £68.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £65.00 £88.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £40.33 £53.67
% change year-on-year +48.79% -24.86% +65.15%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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
London +74 73 £725 +31.82% 25
England +67 73 £725 +31.82% 25
Work from Home +90 64 £725 -3.33% 7

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 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 22 (28.21%) thinkFolio
2 3 (3.85%) Bloomberg AIM
2 3 (3.85%) Fidessa
3 2 (2.56%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 15 (19.23%) Azure
2 6 (7.69%) Power Platform
3 5 (6.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 5 (6.41%) Snowflake
4 4 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.13%) Serverless
5 3 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.28%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.28%) dbt
6 1 (1.28%) GitHub
6 1 (1.28%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.28%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.28%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.69%) Power BI
1 6 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.13%) Snowflake Schema
3 3 (3.85%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.85%) Star Schema
4 2 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.56%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.28%) Ataccama
5 1 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.28%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 4 (5.13%) JIRA
General
1 60 (76.92%) Finance
2 49 (62.82%) Front Office
3 17 (21.79%) Social Skills
4 5 (6.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.85%) Banking
5 3 (3.85%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.56%) Back Office
7 1 (1.28%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.28%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.28%) Military
Job Titles
1 50 (64.10%) Analyst
1 50 (64.10%) Business Analyst
2 39 (50.00%) Business Manager
3 38 (48.72%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
4 12 (15.38%) Developer
5 7 (8.97%) Architect
5 7 (8.97%) Consultant
6 6 (7.69%) Finance Business Analyst
6 6 (7.69%) Finance Manager
6 6 (7.69%) Financial Analyst
6 6 (7.69%) Lead
7 5 (6.41%) Snowflake Developer
8 4 (5.13%) Data Business Analyst
8 4 (5.13%) Lead Consultant
9 3 (3.85%) .NET Architect
9 3 (3.85%) Asset Management Analyst
9 3 (3.85%) Asset Management Business Analyst
9 3 (3.85%) Business Consultant
9 3 (3.85%) Data Architect
9 3 (3.85%) Lead Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.82%) .NET
1 10 (12.82%) .NET Framework
2 7 (8.97%) REST
3 4 (5.13%) Dapper ORM
3 4 (5.13%) Entity Framework
3 4 (5.13%) LINQ
3 4 (5.13%) SOAP
4 3 (3.85%) .NET Core
4 3 (3.85%) ASP.NET
4 3 (3.85%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.28%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 46 (58.97%) Fixed Income
2 43 (55.13%) Derivative
2 43 (55.13%) Hedge funds
3 22 (28.21%) Onboarding
4 7 (8.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (5.13%) Clustering
6 3 (3.85%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.85%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.85%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.28%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (80.77%) Asset Management
2 57 (73.08%) Investment Management
3 52 (66.67%) Agile
4 51 (65.38%) Portfolio Management
5 45 (57.69%) Business Analysis
6 44 (56.41%) Business Intelligence
7 26 (33.33%) Analytics
8 21 (26.92%) Performance Attribution
8 21 (26.92%) User Acceptance Testing
9 20 (25.64%) Data Mapping
10 19 (24.36%) Quantitative Research
11 9 (11.54%) Data Modelling
12 8 (10.26%) CI/CD
12 8 (10.26%) Data Integration
13 7 (8.97%) DevOps
13 7 (8.97%) ETL
14 6 (7.69%) GAP Analysis
14 6 (7.69%) Software Engineering
14 6 (7.69%) Test Automation
14 6 (7.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 56 (71.79%) SQL
2 42 (53.85%) Python
3 10 (12.82%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (5.13%) Degree
2 3 (3.85%) Azure Certification
2 3 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.97%) MiFID
2 5 (6.41%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.13%) EMIR
System Software
1 4 (5.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.56%) HP ALM
2 1 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (48.72%) BISAM
2 21 (26.92%) SimCorp
3 20 (25.64%) Charles River
4 19 (24.36%) Calypso
5 9 (11.54%) Microsoft
6 5 (6.41%) Bloomberg
6 5 (6.41%) FactSet
7 4 (5.13%) Oracle
8 3 (3.85%) Murex
8 3 (3.85%) Portware
9 2 (2.56%) HP
9 2 (2.56%) Informatica