Cryptocurrency Contracts

Cryptocurrency
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Cryptocurrency skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cryptocurrency over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 565 711 764
Rank change year-on-year +146 +53 -119
Contract jobs citing Cryptocurrency 13 5 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.008% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.035% 0.009% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 96
10th Percentile £523 - £438
25th Percentile £525 £513 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £588 £613
Median % change year-on-year -3.19% -4.08% -2.00%
75th Percentile £605 £769 £700
90th Percentile £623 £938 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate - £1,000 £588
% change year-on-year - +70.21% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Cryptocurrency is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,480 53,073 80,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.37% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,166 36,804 56,457
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,447 1,751 1,910
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Cryptocurrency
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cryptocurrency as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cryptocurrency in the UK

Cryptocurrency
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cryptocurrency.

Daily rate trend for Cryptocurrency in the UK

Cryptocurrency
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cryptocurrency over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cryptocurrency in the UK

Cryptocurrency
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cryptocurrency within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
London +120 11 £550 +4.76% 47
England +114 11 £550 -6.38% 54
Work from Home +136 7 £550 - 26

Cryptocurrency
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 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (7.69%) Ethereum
1 1 (7.69%) Hyperledger
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) GCP
2 5 (38.46%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
1 1 (7.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
General
1 8 (61.54%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Games
3 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Designer
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Digital Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Digital Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Games Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Product Designer
4 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Designer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Digital Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Games Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Product Designer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Systems Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Web Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Node.js
1 2 (15.38%) React
2 1 (7.69%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.69%) Bazel
2 1 (7.69%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (7.69%) jQuery
2 1 (7.69%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (7.69%) Smart Contracts
2 1 (7.69%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Mobile App
2 4 (30.77%) Blockchain
3 2 (15.38%) Algorithms
3 2 (15.38%) Data Structures
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 1 (7.69%) Digital Currency
4 1 (7.69%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (7.69%) PKI
4 1 (7.69%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Fintech
2 5 (38.46%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) Microservices
3 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
3 4 (30.77%) TDD
3 4 (30.77%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
4 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (15.38%) DeFi
4 2 (15.38%) Low Latency
5 1 (7.69%) Concurrent Programming
5 1 (7.69%) Cryptography
5 1 (7.69%) Data Engineering
5 1 (7.69%) High Availability
5 1 (7.69%) Multithreading
5 1 (7.69%) OOP
5 1 (7.69%) Regulatory Change
5 1 (7.69%) Test Automation
5 1 (7.69%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Go
2 4 (30.77%) Java
2 4 (30.77%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) C#
3 2 (15.38%) C++
3 2 (15.38%) Ruby
4 1 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) Perl
4 1 (7.69%) PHP
4 1 (7.69%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Istio
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Google