Smart Contracts Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Smart Contract
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Smart Contracts skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Smart Contracts 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.13% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.61% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
Scotland median daily rate £600 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 163 161 187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 21.59% 26.31% 23.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 102 115
10th Percentile £400 £407 £380
25th Percentile £413 £450 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £497 £494
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +0.61% +3.73%
75th Percentile £550 £527 £588
90th Percentile £624 £598 £690
Scotland median daily rate £450 £493 £475
% change year-on-year -8.72% +3.79% -0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -36.36% - +3.03%

Smart Contracts
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Smart Contracts relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Smart Contracts job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Smart Contracts
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Blockchain
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) DAML
1 1 (100.00%) Java