Blockchain Contracts in the UK excluding London

Blockchain
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blockchain in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Blockchain over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 385 441 482
Rank change year-on-year +56 +41 -47
Contract jobs citing Blockchain 9 8 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.044% 0.035% 0.089%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.15% 0.11% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 15
10th Percentile - £448 £458
25th Percentile £425 £481 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £663 £557
Median % change year-on-year -28.30% +18.99% -17.51%
75th Percentile £550 £816 £763
90th Percentile £565 £956 £885
UK median daily rate £625 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £92.50 £56.50
Median hourly rate - £95.00 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year - +61.02% -
75th Percentile - £97.50 £61.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £95.00 £59.00
% change year-on-year - +61.02% -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Blockchain is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,883 7,452 9,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.99% 32.39% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,537 5,017 6,733
10th Percentile £210 £220 £205
25th Percentile £378 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
75th Percentile £595 £613 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £672
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 716 420 456
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.43
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.63
Median hourly rate £29.25 £22.00 £21.13
Median % change year-on-year +32.95% +4.14% -11.98%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.63 £46.54
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £61.83
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.54% -18.24% +4.05%

Blockchain
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Blockchain as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Blockchain in the UK excluding London

Blockchain
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Blockchain in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Blockchain in the UK excluding London

Blockchain
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Blockchain in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Blockchain in the UK excluding London

Blockchain
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Blockchain within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
South West +12 4 - - 1
North of England - 3 £450 - 5
North West - 3 £450 - 5
Midlands +27 1 £550 - 3
South East +11 1 £550 -24.14% 4
East Midlands - 1 £550 - 2
Blockchain
UK

Blockchain
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (11.11%) Ethereum
1 1 (11.11%) MetaMask
1 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
1 1 (11.11%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) GCP
1 4 (44.44%) OCI
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Data Lake
1 4 (44.44%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (44.44%) NoSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
1 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Data Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Product Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Blockchain Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Blockchain Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Scala Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) OpenID
1 4 (44.44%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (22.22%) CSS
2 2 (22.22%) HTML
2 2 (22.22%) Node.js
2 2 (22.22%) React
2 2 (22.22%) Smart Contracts
2 2 (22.22%) web3js
3 1 (11.11%) CSS3
3 1 (11.11%) HTML5
3 1 (11.11%) Hugging Face
3 1 (11.11%) JSON
3 1 (11.11%) Play Framework
3 1 (11.11%) RESTful
3 1 (11.11%) Truffle
3 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (11.11%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Artificial Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Machine Learning
2 4 (44.44%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (44.44%) Domain-Driven Design
2 4 (44.44%) Event-Driven
2 4 (44.44%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 4 (44.44%) Microservices
2 4 (44.44%) Software Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) Zero Trust
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) User Experience
4 1 (11.11%) Business Development
4 1 (11.11%) Cryptography
4 1 (11.11%) DeFi
4 1 (11.11%) Low Latency
4 1 (11.11%) Market Research
4 1 (11.11%) Migration
4 1 (11.11%) Product Management
4 1 (11.11%) SOA
4 1 (11.11%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Java
1 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 1 (11.11%) Scala
1 1 (11.11%) Solidity
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Oracle