Non-Fungible Token (NFT)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NFT in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited NFT over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 895 961 1044
Rank change year-on-year +66 +83 -138
Permanent jobs citing NFT 9 32 186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.031% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.026% 0.072% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1 21 48
10th Percentile - £47,500 £56,375
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £75,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -14.29% -37.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile - £111,250 £110,750
UK excluding London median annual salary - £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -10.71% -

All Generic Skills
UK

NFT is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,988 44,314 74,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 42.70% 47.35%
Number of salaries quoted 23,043 23,940 34,254
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

NFT
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for NFT in the UK

NFT
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NFT.

Salary trend for NFT in the UK

NFT
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NFT within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +64 9 £60,000 -20.00% 6
North of England +49 4 - -
UK excluding London +15 4 - - 1
North West +5 4 - -
London +97 2 £60,000 -20.00% 5

NFT
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 (44.44%) OpenZeppelin
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
1 5 (55.56%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub
2 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) HTTP
1 4 (44.44%) IPFS
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Hardhat
General
1 7 (77.78%) Finance
1 7 (77.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (11.11%) Games
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Senior
2 4 (44.44%) Developer
3 3 (33.33%) Blockchain Developer
3 3 (33.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Backend Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Blockchain Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) Node.js
1 9 (100.00%) web3js
2 4 (44.44%) Compass CSS Framework
2 4 (44.44%) ERC20
2 4 (44.44%) React
2 4 (44.44%) RESTful
2 4 (44.44%) Smart Contracts
2 4 (44.44%) Truffle
3 1 (11.11%) AdonisJS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) Blockchain
1 9 (100.00%) Web3
2 8 (88.89%) Onboarding
3 3 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) User Experience
2 5 (55.56%) Software Engineering
3 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) Cryptography
3 4 (44.44%) E-Commerce
3 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (44.44%) Non-Functional Testing
3 4 (44.44%) Open Source
3 4 (44.44%) UX Design
4 3 (33.33%) Use Case
5 1 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (11.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) TypeScript
2 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
2 4 (44.44%) Rust
2 4 (44.44%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (88.89%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Foundry
1 4 (44.44%) Google