Digital Currency Contracts

Digital Currency (Digital/Electronic Money)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Digital Currency in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Digital Currency over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 589 - 850
Rank change year-on-year - - -158
Contract jobs citing Digital Currency 2 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% - 0.005%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.015% - 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £261
25th Percentile - - £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £405
75th Percentile - - £407
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Generic Skills
UK

Digital Currency 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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,085 19,696 29,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.32% 33.30% 33.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,418 13,533 20,480
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £678 £656
90th Percentile £798 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 902 642 725
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.14 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.04% -18.24% +4.05%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.44 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.25 £22.00 £20.07
% change year-on-year +28.41% +9.64% -16.40%

Digital Currency
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Currency in the UK

Digital Currency
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Digital Currency in the UK

Digital Currency
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 Digital Currency within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
Work from Home - 2 - - 4
London - 1 - - 12
England - 1 - - 16

Digital Currency
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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (50.00%) CouchDB
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (50.00%) Darcs
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jaeger
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Mercurial
1 1 (50.00%) Travis CI
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) CBDC
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Cryptocurrency
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) DeFi
1 1 (50.00%) Full Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Kanban
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) OWASP
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) Go
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SANS
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO 20022
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kibana
1 1 (50.00%) logstash
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk