Alibaba Contract Job Trends

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 15 January 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
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 575 527 -
Rank change year-on-year -48 - -
Contract jobs citing Alibaba 3 7 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.008% 0.022% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.018% 0.048% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year +61.90% - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £625 -

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 17,131 14,582 18,678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 46.18% 45.80% 44.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,032 8,643 11,805
10th Percentile £300 £284 £255
25th Percentile £410 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.42%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 802 426 679
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.88 £19.72 £17.74
Median hourly rate £23.83 £27.13 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.17% -37.64% +50.00%
75th Percentile £47.69 £60.09 £63.29
90th Percentile £74.26 £78.75 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.13 £24.83 £44.50
% change year-on-year -14.92% -44.20% +76.24%

Alibaba
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Alibaba job vacancy trend in the UK

Alibaba
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Alibaba
Top 5 Contract Job 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 15 January 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 -49 3 £850 +36.00% 1
London - 2 £850 -
UK excluding London -64 1 - - 1
North of England - 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1

Alibaba
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Storage
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Product Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Smart Contracts
2 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) DeFi
2 2 (66.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Fintech
2 2 (66.67%) Low Latency
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Secure Coding
2 2 (66.67%) Security Monitoring
2 2 (66.67%) Static Application Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) C++
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Kotlin
2 2 (66.67%) Rust
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) Bicep
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) OpenAI