Smart Contract
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Smart Contracts skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Smart Contracts over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 857 944 1025
Rank change year-on-year +87 +81 -143
Permanent jobs citing Smart Contracts 39 26 207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.040% 0.025% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.19% 0.082% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 34 11 37
10th Percentile £42,500 £72,500 £78,000
25th Percentile £67,805 £90,000 £83,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,500 £100,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.50% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £117,500 £113,750 £140,000
90th Percentile £137,913 £142,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £79,288 - £100,000
% change year-on-year - - +56.86%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 20,974 31,729 61,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.39% 30.32% 40.17%
Number of salaries quoted 15,673 19,469 30,328
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,117 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £79,600 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Smart Contracts in the UK

Smart Contracts
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Smart Contracts over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Smart Contracts in the UK

Smart Contracts
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Smart Contracts within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +126 39 £86,500 -13.50% 16
London +137 29 £90,000 -10.00% 13
Work from Home +95 16 £115,000 +12.20% 9
UK excluding London +19 6 £79,288 - 3
North of England - 4 £95,468 -
North West - 4 £95,468 -
South East +31 1 £60,000 - 2
East Midlands - 1 £88,000 -
Midlands - 1 £88,000 -

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 11 (28.21%) Ethereum
2 4 (10.26%) Hyperledger
2 4 (10.26%) OpenZeppelin
3 1 (2.56%) IIS
Business Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.38%) WeChat
2 3 (7.69%) GCP
3 2 (5.13%) Azure
4 1 (2.56%) AWS
4 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.56%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) IPFS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Hardhat
2 3 (7.69%) Git
3 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (43.59%) Finance
2 16 (41.03%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.38%) Mandarin Language
4 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (10.26%) Banking
5 4 (10.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (7.69%) Legal
7 2 (5.13%) General Ledger
8 1 (2.56%) Marketing
8 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (41.03%) Developer
2 9 (23.08%) Blockchain Developer
3 7 (17.95%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 7 (17.95%) Senior
4 5 (12.82%) Blockchain Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Product Owner
4 5 (12.82%) Technical Product Owner
5 4 (10.26%) Head of Engineering
6 3 (7.69%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Software Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.56%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) Head of Digital
8 1 (2.56%) Head of Security
8 1 (2.56%) IT Manager
8 1 (2.56%) IT Programme Manager
8 1 (2.56%) Programme Manager
8 1 (2.56%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (30.77%) web3js
2 8 (20.51%) React
3 6 (15.38%) GraphQL
4 5 (12.82%) ERC20
4 5 (12.82%) Node.js
4 5 (12.82%) Truffle
4 5 (12.82%) WebSockets
5 4 (10.26%) REST
5 4 (10.26%) Web Services
6 2 (5.13%) CSS
6 2 (5.13%) HTML
7 1 (2.56%) CSS3
7 1 (2.56%) HTML5
7 1 (2.56%) jQuery
7 1 (2.56%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 34 (87.18%) Blockchain
2 11 (28.21%) Web3
3 8 (20.51%) Algorithms
4 5 (12.82%) Product Ownership
5 4 (10.26%) Data Structures
5 4 (10.26%) NFT
5 4 (10.26%) Onboarding
6 3 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (7.69%) Mobile App
6 3 (7.69%) Public Cloud
7 2 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (2.56%) Augmented Reality
8 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (2.56%) Virtual Reality
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (38.46%) Computer Science
1 15 (38.46%) User Experience
2 14 (35.90%) Software Engineering
3 13 (33.33%) Agile
4 11 (28.21%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (23.08%) Cryptography
5 9 (23.08%) DeFi
5 9 (23.08%) Product Management
6 8 (20.51%) Open Source
7 7 (17.95%) Front End Development
7 7 (17.95%) Roadmaps
8 6 (15.38%) Containerisation
8 6 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (15.38%) Fintech
9 5 (12.82%) Cryptocurrency
9 5 (12.82%) Market Research
9 5 (12.82%) Product Requirements
9 5 (12.82%) Product Roadmap
9 5 (12.82%) Requirements Gathering
9 5 (12.82%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.21%) TypeScript
2 10 (25.64%) Rust
3 9 (23.08%) Python
4 8 (20.51%) Solidity
5 6 (15.38%) Go
5 6 (15.38%) Java
5 6 (15.38%) SQL
6 5 (12.82%) C#
7 3 (7.69%) C++
8 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
9 1 (2.56%) Scala
9 1 (2.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (28.21%) Degree
2 9 (23.08%) Master's Degree
3 6 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (23.08%) QA
2 4 (10.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (10.26%) Foundry
2 2 (5.13%) Google
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft