Smart Contracts Contracts

Smart Contract
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Smart Contracts skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Smart Contracts over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 578 696 805
Rank change year-on-year +118 +109 -127
Contract jobs citing Smart Contracts 16 20 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.034% 0.056%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.18% 0.14% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 42
10th Percentile £490 £536 £500
25th Percentile £550 £650 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £738 £613
Median % change year-on-year -11.86% +20.41% +2.08%
75th Percentile £788 £800 £759
90th Percentile - £864 £900
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £1,000 £703
% change year-on-year -50.00% +42.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £62.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.00 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Smart Contracts is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,875 13,886 24,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.49% 23.26% 27.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,163 10,138 17,667
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 153 241
10th Percentile £21.01 £31.60 £22.00
25th Percentile £40.00 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.84 £64.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.81% +30.61% +8.89%

Smart Contracts
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Smart Contracts in the UK

Smart Contracts
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Smart Contracts in the UK

Smart Contracts
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Smart Contracts over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Smart Contracts in the UK

Smart Contracts
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Smart Contracts within the UK over the 6 months to 28 April 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 +127 11 £688 -1.79% 11
England +110 11 £650 -10.34% 16
London +96 6 £700 -1.75% 12
UK excluding London +67 4 £500 -50.00% 4
South East - 2 - - 2
East Midlands - 1 £550 -
Midlands - 1 £550 -
North West - 1 £450 -
North of England - 1 £450 -

Smart Contracts
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 4 (25.00%) Ethereum
2 3 (18.75%) Hyperledger
3 1 (6.25%) MetaMask
3 1 (6.25%) Tomcat
3 1 (6.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (12.50%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Smartsheet
1 3 (18.75%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Manufacturing
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Blockchain Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Cryptography Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Blockchain Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Blockchain Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Project Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Business Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Business Process Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Business Process Project Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Business Project Manager
4 2 (12.50%) HR Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Process Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Blockchain Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) CSS
1 2 (12.50%) HTML
1 2 (12.50%) Node.js
1 2 (12.50%) React
1 2 (12.50%) web3js
2 1 (6.25%) .NET
2 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
2 1 (6.25%) CSS3
2 1 (6.25%) HTML5
2 1 (6.25%) jQuery
2 1 (6.25%) JSON
2 1 (6.25%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (6.25%) Truffle
Miscellaneous
1 13 (81.25%) Blockchain
2 4 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 4 (25.00%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (18.75%) Life Science
3 3 (18.75%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (12.50%) Data Structures
5 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (6.25%) PKI
5 1 (6.25%) Web3
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Cryptography
1 8 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (43.75%) Computer Science
3 5 (31.25%) Software Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) BPR
4 3 (18.75%) Change Management
4 3 (18.75%) Mathematics
4 3 (18.75%) Web Development
4 3 (18.75%) Workflow
5 2 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
5 2 (12.50%) High Availability
5 2 (12.50%) Low Latency
5 2 (12.50%) Project Management
6 1 (6.25%) Backtesting
6 1 (6.25%) Cryptocurrency
6 1 (6.25%) Data Analysis
6 1 (6.25%) Data Security
6 1 (6.25%) High-Frequency Trading
6 1 (6.25%) Information Security
6 1 (6.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) C++
1 9 (56.25%) Java
1 9 (56.25%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (18.75%) Clojure
4 2 (12.50%) DAML
4 2 (12.50%) Solidity
5 1 (6.25%) Bash
5 1 (6.25%) C#
5 1 (6.25%) Perl
5 1 (6.25%) PHP
5 1 (6.25%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) Degree
2 5 (31.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (12.50%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
1 3 (18.75%) Workday