Alibaba Contracts

Alibaba
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 2 May 2025, 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 517 - 676
Rank change year-on-year - - +161
Contract jobs citing Alibaba 3 0 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% - 0.060%
As % of the Vendors category 0.022% - 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 18
10th Percentile £585 - £513
25th Percentile £600 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £615
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.14%
75th Percentile £913 - £684
90th Percentile £1,085 - £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 - £594

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,937 18,466 25,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.50% 42.44% 42.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,733 11,432 17,058
10th Percentile £289 £263 £273
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -
75th Percentile £619 £627 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 1,111 690
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.13 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £14.48 £19.02
Median hourly rate £26.45 £22.00 £43.69
Median % change year-on-year +20.23% -49.65% +107.85%
75th Percentile £56.00 £57.41 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +106.79%

Alibaba
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Alibaba in the UK

Alibaba
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Alibaba in the UK

Alibaba
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Alibaba over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Alibaba in the UK

Alibaba
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Alibaba within the UK over the 6 months to 2 May 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 - 3 £625 - 19
London - 2 £900 - 19
Midlands - 1 £625 -
West Midlands - 1 £625 -
UK excluding London - 1 £625 - 5

Alibaba
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Product Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Product Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Security Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Low Latency
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) SDLC
1 2 (66.67%) Secure Coding
1 2 (66.67%) Static Application Security Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Threat Detection
1 2 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (33.33%) Cryptography
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) DeFi
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Traceability Matrix
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C++
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) Kotlin
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) Rust
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Google