Solidity Contracts

Solidity
UK

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 579 692 797
Rank change year-on-year +113 +105 -112
Contract jobs citing Solidity 4 13 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.022% 0.054%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.031% 0.063% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 41
10th Percentile £475 £523 £463
25th Percentile £494 £650 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +7.69% +36.84%
75th Percentile £563 £750 £775
90th Percentile £570 £819 £900
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 - £825

All Programming Languages
UK

Solidity is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,825 20,772 32,226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.54% 34.98% 36.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,114 14,977 23,466
10th Percentile £350 £398 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £763 £783 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -2.50% +2.56% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 486 467 512
10th Percentile £31.63 £26.20 £19.56
25th Percentile £46.25 £49.84 £35.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% +20.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.59 £77.00 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £60.70 £49.50
% change year-on-year +2.97% +22.63% +16.47%

Solidity
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Solidity in the UK

Solidity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Solidity in the UK

Solidity
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solidity within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
England +111 4 £550 -21.43% 9
Work from Home +120 3 £550 -21.43% 7
London +100 3 £513 -26.79% 7
UK excluding London +57 1 £550 -
East Midlands - 1 £550 -
Midlands - 1 £550 -

Solidity
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 2 (50.00%) Ethereum
2 1 (25.00%) Hyperledger
2 1 (25.00%) MetaMask
2 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Blockchain Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Blockchain Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) Smart Contracts
1 2 (50.00%) web3js
2 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (25.00%) CSS3
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) jQuery
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (25.00%) SOAP
2 1 (25.00%) Truffle
2 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Blockchain
2 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (25.00%) PKI
2 1 (25.00%) Web3
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) Low Latency
1 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) API Design
2 1 (25.00%) API Development
2 1 (25.00%) Backtesting
2 1 (25.00%) BDD
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
2 1 (25.00%) Cryptocurrency
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) DeFi
2 1 (25.00%) High-Frequency Trading
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) C++
3 1 (25.00%) Perl
3 1 (25.00%) PHP
3 1 (25.00%) Ruby
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes