Smart Contracts Contracts in the City of London

Smart Contract
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Smart Contracts skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Smart Contracts over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 126 177
Rank change year-on-year +10 +51 +13
Contract jobs citing Smart Contracts 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% 0.046% 0.027%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.63% 0.21% 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £640 - -
25th Percentile £653 £763 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £775 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.90% - -
75th Percentile £678 £788 -
90th Percentile £679 - -
Central London median daily rate £675 £775 -
% change year-on-year -12.90% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of London

Smart Contracts falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 479 480 1,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.28% 21.85% 28.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 343 676
10th Percentile £413 £401 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -10.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £551 £625
% change year-on-year +4.45% -11.92% +4.17%

Smart Contracts
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Smart Contracts as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Smart Contracts in the City of London

Smart Contracts
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Smart Contracts in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Smart Contracts in the City of London

Smart Contracts
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 2 (66.67%) Investment Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Blockchain Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Blockchain
1 3 (100.00%) Equities
1 3 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) DAML
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) Python