Blockchain Contract Job Trends in Central London

Blockchain
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blockchain in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Blockchain over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 118 125
Rank change year-on-year -18 +7 +26
Contract jobs citing Blockchain 1 4 8
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.040% 0.21% 0.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.13% 0.63% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 7
10th Percentile - £644 £483
25th Percentile £88 £664 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £92 £678 £550
Median % change year-on-year -86.39% +23.18% -21.43%
75th Percentile £96 £685 £681
90th Percentile - £694 £750
London median daily rate £600 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +6.12%

All Generic Skills
Central London

Blockchain falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 800 635 752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 32.10% 33.76% 31.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 411 521
10th Percentile £350 £356 £275
25th Percentile £463 £464 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year - +1.77% -9.60%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £788 £810 £838
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 8
10th Percentile £19.27 £19.80 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.82 £23.52 £15.19
Median hourly rate £26.11 £26.45 £23.40
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% +13.03% -33.14%
75th Percentile £58.92 £30.04 £27.13
90th Percentile £63.94 £58.60 £34.33
London median hourly rate £35.00 £30.90 £27.00
% change year-on-year +13.26% +14.45% -22.86%

Blockchain
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Blockchain relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Blockchain job vacancy trend in Central London

Blockchain
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Blockchain.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Blockchain

Blockchain
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Blockchain within the Central London region over the 6 months to 28 May 2026. 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
City of London -15 1 £92 -86.39% 7
Blockchain
London

Blockchain
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Ethereum
1 1 (100.00%) Hyperledger
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) R3 Corda
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Backend Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Blockchain Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Backend Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) gRPC
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Smart Contracts
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Batch
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript