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 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 464 478 558
Rank change year-on-year +14 +80 +1
Contract jobs citing Blockchain 21 64 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.086% 0.17% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.25% 0.56% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 43 63
10th Percentile - £433 £455
25th Percentile £500 £488 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £638
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £731 £738
90th Percentile £679 £770 £823
UK median daily rate £585 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -6.40% -3.85% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £92.50
Median hourly rate - - £95.00
75th Percentile - - £97.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £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 8,317 11,465 17,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.15% 30.83% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,436 7,505 11,795
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 827 591
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.01 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%
75th Percentile £64.63 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.40 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 0 12 £638 -1.92% 293
Midlands +26 5 £500 -9.09% 18
West Midlands - 5 £500 - 3
North of England +17 3 - - 34
Yorkshire +7 2 - - 4
North West +16 1 - - 30
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 1 (4.76%) Apache
1 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.76%) Ethereum
1 1 (4.76%) Hyperledger
1 1 (4.76%) MetaMask
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (4.76%) R3 Corda
1 1 (4.76%) SAP EWM
1 1 (4.76%) SAP GTS
1 1 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (4.76%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 9 (42.86%) AWS
2 4 (19.05%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) GCP
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (4.76%) dbt
3 1 (4.76%) GitHub
3 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (4.76%) Google Docs
3 1 (4.76%) Google Sheets
3 1 (4.76%) Google Workspace
3 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
3 1 (4.76%) Serverless
3 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) MongoDB
1 2 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.76%) Airbyte
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (4.76%) BigQuery
2 1 (4.76%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Hardhat
General
1 9 (42.86%) Finance
2 8 (38.10%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (33.33%) Banking
4 6 (28.57%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Front Office
5 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.76%) Law
5 1 (4.76%) Legal
5 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Architect
2 7 (33.33%) Applications Architect
3 6 (28.57%) Developer
4 5 (23.81%) Blockchain Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Java Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (4.76%) AWS Architect
7 1 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) AWS Solution Architect
7 1 (4.76%) Blockchain Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Cloud Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.76%) Consultant
7 1 (4.76%) Data Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Java Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Lead
7 1 (4.76%) Management Consultant
7 1 (4.76%) Murex Specialist
7 1 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
7 1 (4.76%) Senior
7 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (38.10%) Smart Contracts
2 3 (14.29%) REST
3 2 (9.52%) Kafka
3 2 (9.52%) web3js
4 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.76%) Django
4 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (4.76%) FastAPI
4 1 (4.76%) Flask
4 1 (4.76%) Great Expectations
4 1 (4.76%) Node.js
4 1 (4.76%) pytest
4 1 (4.76%) React
4 1 (4.76%) RESTful
4 1 (4.76%) SAP TM
4 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.76%) Truffle
4 1 (4.76%) Vue
4 1 (4.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) Equities
1 7 (33.33%) IoT
1 7 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (28.57%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.76%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Web3
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) DevOps
2 8 (38.10%) Machine Learning
2 8 (38.10%) Migration
3 7 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 7 (33.33%) Microservices
3 7 (33.33%) TDD
4 6 (28.57%) Agile
4 6 (28.57%) Cost Reduction
4 6 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
4 6 (28.57%) Interface Catalogue
4 6 (28.57%) Project Planning
4 6 (28.57%) Roadmaps
4 6 (28.57%) SOA
4 6 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (28.57%) Thought Leadership
5 4 (19.05%) SDLC
6 2 (9.52%) Analytics
6 2 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (9.52%) Cryptocurrency
6 2 (9.52%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) Python
2 8 (38.10%) Java
3 7 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 4 (19.05%) DAML
4 4 (19.05%) Solidity
5 2 (9.52%) Rust
5 2 (9.52%) SQL
6 1 (4.76%) C
6 1 (4.76%) C++
6 1 (4.76%) Go
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
1 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) Degree
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.76%) PhD
3 1 (4.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Terraform
2 1 (4.76%) Ansible
2 1 (4.76%) Grafana
2 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (4.76%) Google
1 1 (4.76%) Murex
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle
1 1 (4.76%) Red Hat
1 1 (4.76%) SAP
1 1 (4.76%) VMware