Aladdin Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

BlackRock Aladdin
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 244 340 458
Rank change year-on-year +96 +118 +159
Contract jobs citing Aladdin 60 5 19
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.61% 0.033% 0.073%
As % of the Business Applications category 6.58% 0.37% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 4 15
10th Percentile £526 £624 £477
25th Percentile £538 £641 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £700 £750
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £788 £778 £775
90th Percentile £838 £829 -
UK median daily rate £725 £600 £750
% change year-on-year +20.83% -20.00% +11.11%

All Business Application Skills
Work from Home

Aladdin falls under the Business Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring business application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 912 1,350 1,834
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 9.21% 8.80% 7.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 554 774 1,031
10th Percentile £413 £375 £355
25th Percentile £488 £461 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £675 £663 £684
90th Percentile £800 £756 £788
UK median daily rate £565 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +2.73% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 18 24
10th Percentile £55.65 £15.61 £25.10
25th Percentile £62.50 £26.44 £36.73
Median hourly rate £86.00 £45.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +91.11% -8.16% +103.74%
75th Percentile - £57.25 £65.94
90th Percentile £87.05 £71.47 £89.25
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £43.75 £47.50
% change year-on-year +37.14% -7.89% +35.71%

Aladdin
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Aladdin as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Aladdin trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Aladdin
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Aladdin.

Aladdin daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Aladdin
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Aladdin over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Aladdin daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Aladdin
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (23.33%) thinkFolio
2 2 (3.33%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 11 (18.33%) Azure
2 7 (11.67%) Snowflake
3 5 (8.33%) SaaS
4 2 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.67%) dbt
5 1 (1.67%) GitHub
5 1 (1.67%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.67%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.67%) Snowflake Schema
2 3 (5.00%) Star Schema
3 2 (3.33%) Data Lake
3 2 (3.33%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.33%) Power BI
4 1 (1.67%) Ataccama
4 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.67%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 2 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 47 (78.33%) Finance
2 37 (61.67%) Front Office
3 3 (5.00%) Back Office
4 2 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (68.33%) Analyst
2 35 (58.33%) Business Analyst
3 32 (53.33%) Business Manager
4 31 (51.67%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
5 8 (13.33%) Architect
6 6 (10.00%) Finance Business Analyst
6 6 (10.00%) Finance Manager
6 6 (10.00%) Financial Analyst
6 6 (10.00%) Performance Analyst
6 6 (10.00%) Performance Manager
7 5 (8.33%) Developer
7 5 (8.33%) Snowflake Developer
8 3 (5.00%) Consultant
8 3 (5.00%) Data Architect
8 3 (5.00%) Data Business Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) Security Architect
9 2 (3.33%) Asset Management Analyst
9 2 (3.33%) Asset Management Business Analyst
9 2 (3.33%) Asset Management Consultant
9 2 (3.33%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.33%) .NET
1 2 (3.33%) .NET Core
1 2 (3.33%) .NET Framework
1 2 (3.33%) Entity Framework
1 2 (3.33%) LINQ
2 1 (1.67%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 39 (65.00%) Fixed Income
2 37 (61.67%) Derivative
2 37 (61.67%) Hedge funds
3 14 (23.33%) Onboarding
4 4 (6.67%) Clustering
4 4 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (5.00%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (88.33%) Investment Management
2 47 (78.33%) Asset Management
3 39 (65.00%) Business Intelligence
4 38 (63.33%) Agile
5 36 (60.00%) Portfolio Management
6 32 (53.33%) Business Analysis
7 28 (46.67%) Analytics
8 19 (31.67%) User Acceptance Testing
9 17 (28.33%) Performance Attribution
9 17 (28.33%) Quantitative Research
10 15 (25.00%) Data Mapping
11 11 (18.33%) Data Modelling
12 7 (11.67%) ETL
13 6 (10.00%) Data Architecture
13 6 (10.00%) Data Governance
13 6 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
13 6 (10.00%) Performance Analysis
14 5 (8.33%) Data Integration
14 5 (8.33%) Data Security
15 4 (6.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 46 (76.67%) SQL
2 38 (63.33%) Python
3 2 (3.33%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (3.33%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 37 (61.67%) BISAM
2 16 (26.67%) SimCorp
3 15 (25.00%) Charles River
4 14 (23.33%) Calypso
5 2 (3.33%) HP
5 2 (3.33%) Informatica
5 2 (3.33%) Murex
6 1 (1.67%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.67%) FactSet
6 1 (1.67%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.67%) Oracle