BlackRock Aladdin
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Aladdin skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Aladdin over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 640 850 959
Rank change year-on-year +210 +109 +153
Permanent jobs citing Aladdin 77 44 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.044% 0.022%
As % of the Business Applications category 2.72% 0.97% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 73 41 19
10th Percentile - - £50,000
25th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £105,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +61.54% -48.00%
75th Percentile £128,750 £107,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £115,000 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £115,000 - £75,000
% change year-on-year - - +87.50%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring business application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 2,831 4,549 6,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.14% 4.58% 6.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,885 2,947 3,517
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £39,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £42,435 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £76,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -13.04% +15.58%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Aladdin.

Salary trend for Aladdin in the UK

Aladdin
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Aladdin over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Aladdin in the UK

Aladdin
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Aladdin within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +180 75 £115,000 +9.52% 61
London +144 74 £115,000 +9.52% 61
Work from Home +191 62 £100,000 -4.76% 38
UK excluding London - 2 £115,000 - 24
Scotland - 2 £115,000 - 12

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.60%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (2.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 38 (49.35%) thinkFolio
2 1 (1.30%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 3 (3.90%) Power Platform
2 1 (1.30%) Azure
2 1 (1.30%) PaaS
2 1 (1.30%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.90%) Power BI
2 2 (2.60%) Qlik Sense
2 2 (2.60%) QlikView
2 2 (2.60%) Tableau
3 1 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (2.60%) JIRA
General
1 60 (77.92%) Finance
2 59 (76.62%) Front Office
3 3 (3.90%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.60%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.60%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 61 (79.22%) Analyst
2 46 (59.74%) Business Analyst
3 43 (55.84%) Business Manager
3 43 (55.84%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
4 14 (18.18%) Performance Analyst
4 14 (18.18%) Performance Manager
5 12 (15.58%) Senior
6 11 (14.29%) Senior Manager
7 6 (7.79%) Finance Business Analyst
7 6 (7.79%) Finance Manager
7 6 (7.79%) Financial Analyst
8 2 (2.60%) Asset Management Analyst
8 2 (2.60%) Asset Management Business Analyst
9 1 (1.30%) Applications Architect
9 1 (1.30%) Architect
9 1 (1.30%) Data Engineer
9 1 (1.30%) Lead
9 1 (1.30%) Monitoring Analyst
9 1 (1.30%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.60%) FpML
1 2 (2.60%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (75.32%) Derivative
1 58 (75.32%) Fixed Income
2 57 (74.03%) Hedge funds
3 36 (46.75%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.60%) DTCC
4 2 (2.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.60%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (94.81%) Asset Management
2 60 (77.92%) Business Intelligence
3 59 (76.62%) Agile
3 59 (76.62%) Investment Management
4 45 (58.44%) Business Analysis
4 45 (58.44%) Portfolio Management
5 38 (49.35%) Data Mapping
6 31 (40.26%) Analytics
7 14 (18.18%) Performance Analysis
8 11 (14.29%) Business Development
8 11 (14.29%) Project Delivery
8 11 (14.29%) Project Management
8 11 (14.29%) Target Operating Model
9 10 (12.99%) Technology Transformation
10 9 (11.69%) Regulatory Compliance
11 7 (9.09%) Performance Attribution
11 7 (9.09%) Quantitative Research
11 7 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
12 5 (6.49%) User Stories
13 4 (5.19%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 61 (79.22%) SQL
2 59 (76.62%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.60%) EMIR
1 2 (2.60%) ISO 20022
1 2 (2.60%) MiFID
1 2 (2.60%) PMO
1 2 (2.60%) SEPA
2 1 (1.30%) AIFMD
2 1 (1.30%) UCITS
Vendors
1 57 (74.03%) BISAM
2 50 (64.94%) Charles River
3 38 (49.35%) Calypso
4 37 (48.05%) SimCorp
5 6 (7.79%) eFront
6 4 (5.19%) Avaloq
6 4 (5.19%) Bloomberg
7 2 (2.60%) Cloudera
7 2 (2.60%) Currenex
7 2 (2.60%) FNZ
7 2 (2.60%) Murex
7 2 (2.60%) OneTrust
7 2 (2.60%) Varonis
8 1 (1.30%) Oracle
8 1 (1.30%) Splunk