Blockchain Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Blockchain
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blockchain in contract job vacancies in the City of 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 130 115 120
Rank change year-on-year -15 +5 +27
Contract jobs citing Blockchain 1 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.043% 0.24% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.14% 0.69% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - £644 £479
25th Percentile £88 £664 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £92 £678 £575
Median % change year-on-year -86.39% +17.83% -17.86%
75th Percentile £96 £685 £675
90th Percentile - £694 £743
Central London median daily rate £92 £678 £550
% change year-on-year -86.39% +23.18% -21.43%

All Generic Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 722 579 676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 31.05% 34.75% 31.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 366 454
10th Percentile £369 £357 £268
25th Percentile £463 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £594 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% +3.26% -8.00%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £700
90th Percentile £798 £812 £838
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £565
% change year-on-year - +1.77% -9.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 7
10th Percentile £19.05 £18.15 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.71 £20.63 £14.38
Median hourly rate £27.61 £26.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.20% +15.22% -42.25%
75th Percentile £55.10 £48.25 £27.25
90th Percentile £66.18 £79.30 £36.60
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £26.45 £23.40
% change year-on-year -1.29% +13.03% -33.14%

Blockchain
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Blockchain job vacancy trend in the City of London

Blockchain
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Blockchain.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Blockchain

Blockchain
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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