Blockchain Contracts in England

Blockchain
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blockchain in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Blockchain over the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 477 489 571
Rank change year-on-year +12 +82 +7
Contract jobs citing Blockchain 27 68 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.18% 0.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.29% 0.60% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 45 49
10th Percentile £489 £463 £475
25th Percentile £500 £488 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £648 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year +3.68% -10.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile £695 £725 £738
90th Percentile £750 £765 £820
UK median daily rate £643 £625 £700
% change year-on-year +2.84% -10.71% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £92.50
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £95.00
75th Percentile £87.50 - £97.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - £95.00
% change year-on-year - - +61.02%

All Generic Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,222 11,404 16,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.69% 30.68% 33.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,879 7,335 11,196
10th Percentile £305 £283 £313
25th Percentile £408 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 822 502
10th Percentile £15.48 £12.24 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.39 £15.74
Median hourly rate £32.75 £37.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.66% +36.36% +3.77%
75th Percentile £58.94 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £36.02 £26.00
% change year-on-year -16.72% +38.55% -3.63%

Blockchain
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Blockchain as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Blockchain in England

Blockchain
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Blockchain in England.

Daily rate trend for Blockchain in England

Blockchain
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Blockchain in England over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Blockchain in England

Blockchain
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Blockchain in England.

Hourly rate trend for Blockchain in England

Blockchain
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Blockchain within the England region over the 6 months to 7 July 2025. 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
London -6 16 £662 +1.77% 297
Midlands +14 5 £500 -9.09% 21
West Midlands - 5 £500 - 7
North of England -2 3 - - 20
Yorkshire +2 2 - - 3
South East +46 1 £650 +18.18% 17
North West +2 1 - - 15
Blockchain
UK

Blockchain
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (11.11%) Hyperledger
2 1 (3.70%) Apache
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.70%) Ethereum
2 1 (3.70%) MetaMask
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (3.70%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 12 (44.44%) AWS
2 7 (25.93%) Azure
2 7 (25.93%) GCP
3 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (3.70%) dbt
3 1 (3.70%) GitHub
3 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (3.70%) Google Docs
3 1 (3.70%) Google Sheets
3 1 (3.70%) Google Workspace
3 1 (3.70%) OpenShift
3 1 (3.70%) Serverless
3 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
1 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.70%) Airbyte
2 1 (3.70%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (3.70%) BigQuery
2 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.70%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Hardhat
2 1 (3.70%) Git
General
1 10 (37.04%) Banking
2 9 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (33.33%) Finance
3 8 (29.63%) Investment Banking
4 4 (14.81%) Back Office
5 3 (11.11%) Legal
6 2 (7.41%) Social Skills
7 1 (3.70%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Architect
2 7 (25.93%) Applications Architect
2 7 (25.93%) Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Blockchain Developer
4 4 (14.81%) Software Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Java Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Java Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Blockchain Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Python Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Python Software Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior
7 1 (3.70%) AWS Architect
7 1 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) AWS Solution Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Data Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Hyperledger Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Lead
7 1 (3.70%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (51.85%) Smart Contracts
2 7 (25.93%) REST
3 5 (18.52%) web3js
4 2 (7.41%) Kafka
4 2 (7.41%) Node.js
4 2 (7.41%) Truffle
5 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.70%) Django
5 1 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (3.70%) ERC20
5 1 (3.70%) ethers.js
5 1 (3.70%) FastAPI
5 1 (3.70%) Flask
5 1 (3.70%) Great Expectations
5 1 (3.70%) pytest
5 1 (3.70%) React
5 1 (3.70%) RESTful
5 1 (3.70%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (25.93%) IoT
3 6 (22.22%) Data Structures
4 5 (18.52%) Equities
4 5 (18.52%) Web3
5 3 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (7.41%) Public Cloud
7 1 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (3.70%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) DevOps
2 8 (29.63%) Machine Learning
2 8 (29.63%) Migration
2 8 (29.63%) TDD
3 7 (25.93%) Agile
3 7 (25.93%) Architectural Design
3 7 (25.93%) Microservices
3 7 (25.93%) Roadmaps
3 7 (25.93%) SDLC
4 6 (22.22%) Cost Reduction
4 6 (22.22%) Enterprise Architecture
4 6 (22.22%) Interface Catalogue
4 6 (22.22%) Project Planning
4 6 (22.22%) SOA
4 6 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (22.22%) Thought Leadership
5 5 (18.52%) Software Engineering
6 3 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 3 (11.11%) Data Protection
6 3 (11.11%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 12 (44.44%) Python
2 11 (40.74%) Java
3 8 (29.63%) DAML
3 8 (29.63%) JavaScript
4 4 (14.81%) Solidity
5 3 (11.11%) Go
5 3 (11.11%) Rust
6 1 (3.70%) C
6 1 (3.70%) C++
6 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) SC Cleared
1 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) Degree
3 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.70%) PhD
3 1 (3.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Terraform
2 1 (3.70%) Ansible
2 1 (3.70%) Grafana
2 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (7.41%) Foundry
2 1 (3.70%) Google
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle
2 1 (3.70%) Red Hat
2 1 (3.70%) VMware