Distributed Ledger Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT, Shared Ledger)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Distributed Ledger skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 - 129
Rank change year-on-year - - +23
Contract jobs citing Distributed Ledger 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.042% - 0.095%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.48% - 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £728
25th Percentile £513 - £744
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £793
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.23%
75th Percentile £538 - £844
90th Percentile - - £863
Central London median daily rate £525 - £793
% change year-on-year - - +11.23%

All Business Application Skills
City of London

Distributed Ledger falls under the Business Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring business application skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 210 182 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.74% 9.73% 7.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 111 107
10th Percentile £354 £304 £412
25th Percentile £456 £409 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% -10.42% -7.69%
75th Percentile £725 £700 £682
90th Percentile £818 £775 £806
Central London median daily rate £600 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile - £22.65 -
25th Percentile £18.75 £37.13 £22.00
Median hourly rate £19.50 £62.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -68.80% +171.74% -
75th Percentile £20.25 £63.75 £24.00
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 £62.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -68.80% +171.74% -

Distributed Ledger
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Distributed Ledger job vacancy trend in the City of London

Distributed Ledger
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

Distributed Ledger
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
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Blockchain Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Blockchain
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) KYC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) DAML
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Rust
1 1 (100.00%) Solidity
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR