Alibaba
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Alibaba products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Alibaba over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Alibaba Group Holding Limited.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 724 883 962
Rank change year-on-year +159 +79 +241
Permanent jobs citing Alibaba 6 16 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.016% 0.008%
As % of the Vendors category 0.028% 0.044% 0.019%
Number of salaries quoted 3 16 2
10th Percentile - £81,875 £83,250
25th Percentile £105,000 £93,750 £84,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £97,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% +11.43% -12.50%
75th Percentile £118,750 £102,188 £89,375
90th Percentile £121,000 £105,000 £89,750
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

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 permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 21,421 36,310 41,733
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 38.37% 36.43% 41.90%
Number of salaries quoted 11,996 24,867 23,861
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,700 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,250 £36,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,600 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +5.26%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Alibaba in the UK

Alibaba
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Alibaba within the UK over the 6 months to 17 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 +129 6 £110,000 +12.82% 12
London +101 6 £110,000 +12.82% 12

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 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (50.00%) GCP
2 3 (50.00%) GitHub
2 3 (50.00%) Miro
2 3 (50.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Law
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) IT Architect
1 3 (50.00%) IT Director
1 3 (50.00%) IT Security Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Security Solutions Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Product Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Security Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Security Product Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 3 (50.00%) Machine to Machine
1 3 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) SDLC
2 4 (66.67%) Cloud Security
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Backlog Management
3 3 (50.00%) Business Strategy
3 3 (50.00%) Change Management
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 3 (50.00%) Fintech
3 3 (50.00%) Incident Management
3 3 (50.00%) Information Security
3 3 (50.00%) ITIL
3 3 (50.00%) Major Incident Management
3 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (50.00%) Secrets Management
3 3 (50.00%) Secure Coding
3 3 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
3 3 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) C++
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) Kotlin
2 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (50.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 3 (50.00%) CCSP
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (50.00%) CISSP
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) GDPR
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (50.00%) NIST
1 3 (50.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 3 (50.00%) Puppet
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Google
1 3 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft