Hybrid/Remote Alibaba Contract Job Trends

Alibaba
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 13 December 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
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 311 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs citing Alibaba 2 5 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.020% 0.041% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.040% 0.092% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.67% - -
UK median daily rate £475 £525 -
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 4,946 5,452 8,024
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 48.57% 44.94% 45.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,090 3,270 5,106
10th Percentile £325 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% - -3.58%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £723 £721
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 100 188
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.36 £17.10
25th Percentile £19.66 £24.01 £26.19
Median hourly rate £30.00 £41.00 £56.68
Median % change year-on-year -26.83% -27.66% -1.43%
75th Percentile £63.75 £67.14 £73.13
90th Percentile £67.50 £86.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £29.39 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.33% -33.97% +73.08%

Alibaba
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Alibaba and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Alibaba job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Alibaba
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Alibaba.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Alibaba

Alibaba
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (100.00%) OpenID
1 2 (100.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) GAP Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Privileged Identity Management
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform