Blockchain Contract Job Trends 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 19 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 493 476 549
Rank change year-on-year -17 +73 +29
Contract jobs citing Blockchain 26 50 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.093% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.26% 0.49% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 37 34
10th Percentile £409 £456 £433
25th Percentile £500 £488 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £649 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +3.84% -3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £730 £725 £734
90th Percentile £750 £810 £776
UK median daily rate £648 £625 £625
% change year-on-year +3.68% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - -

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 9,986 10,162 13,778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.91% 30.84% 32.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,279 6,263 9,542
10th Percentile £300 £300 £300
25th Percentile £408 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £790
UK median daily rate £515 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -4.63% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 498 413 414
10th Percentile £15.48 £15.11 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £33.03 £57.35 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -42.41% +25.00% +81.06%
75th Percentile £58.75 £70.00 £67.69
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.16 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +12.36% +71.15%

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
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Blockchain.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Blockchain

Blockchain
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Blockchain in England over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Blockchain in England

Blockchain
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Blockchain.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Blockchain

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 19 September 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 -12 18 £675 +8.00% 83
Midlands - 4 £500 - 4
West Midlands - 4 £500 - 3
North West -11 1 - - 5
North of England -36 1 - - 5
South East - 1 £650 - 14
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 2 (7.69%) Hyperledger
2 1 (3.85%) Apache
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.85%) Solana
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 13 (50.00%) AWS
2 9 (34.62%) Azure
2 9 (34.62%) GCP
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (3.85%) Datadog
3 1 (3.85%) dbt
3 1 (3.85%) GitHub
3 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (3.85%) Google Docs
3 1 (3.85%) Google Sheets
3 1 (3.85%) Google Workspace
3 1 (3.85%) OpenShift
3 1 (3.85%) Serverless
3 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) Firewall
2 1 (3.85%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Airbyte
1 1 (3.85%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (3.85%) BigQuery
1 1 (3.85%) DynamoDB
1 1 (3.85%) Metadata
1 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Hardhat
2 1 (3.85%) Git
General
1 11 (42.31%) Finance
2 10 (38.46%) Banking
3 9 (34.62%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (30.77%) Investment Banking
5 5 (19.23%) Back Office
6 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
7 3 (11.54%) Legal
8 1 (3.85%) Financial Institution
8 1 (3.85%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Architect
1 6 (23.08%) Developer
2 4 (15.38%) Applications Architect
2 4 (15.38%) Blockchain Developer
2 4 (15.38%) Java Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Software Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Java Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Python Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Python Software Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Architect
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Compliance Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Data Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Hyperledger Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Payments Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Rust Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (50.00%) Smart Contracts
2 9 (34.62%) REST
3 4 (15.38%) web3js
4 2 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (7.69%) Kafka
4 2 (7.69%) Node.js
4 2 (7.69%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.85%) .NET
5 1 (3.85%) Django
5 1 (3.85%) ERC20
5 1 (3.85%) ethers.js
5 1 (3.85%) FastAPI
5 1 (3.85%) Flask
5 1 (3.85%) Great Expectations
5 1 (3.85%) pytest
5 1 (3.85%) Quarkus
5 1 (3.85%) RESTful
5 1 (3.85%) SOAP
5 1 (3.85%) Spring
5 1 (3.85%) Truffle
Miscellaneous
1 9 (34.62%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (19.23%) Web3
3 4 (15.38%) Equities
3 4 (15.38%) IoT
4 3 (11.54%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (11.54%) Data Structures
5 2 (7.69%) Public Cloud
6 1 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
6 1 (3.85%) Private Cloud
6 1 (3.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Android
1 1 (3.85%) Apple iOS
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) DevOps
2 8 (30.77%) SDLC
2 8 (30.77%) TDD
3 6 (23.08%) Software Engineering
4 5 (19.23%) Agile
4 5 (19.23%) Machine Learning
4 5 (19.23%) Microservices
4 5 (19.23%) Migration
4 5 (19.23%) Roadmaps
5 4 (15.38%) Architectural Design
5 4 (15.38%) Fintech
6 3 (11.54%) CI/CD
6 3 (11.54%) Data Protection
6 3 (11.54%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (11.54%) Interface Catalogue
6 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (11.54%) Project Planning
6 3 (11.54%) SOA
6 3 (11.54%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (11.54%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 13 (50.00%) Java
2 12 (46.15%) Python
3 9 (34.62%) DAML
4 8 (30.77%) JavaScript
5 3 (11.54%) Rust
6 2 (7.69%) Go
6 2 (7.69%) Solidity
7 1 (3.85%) Bash
7 1 (3.85%) C
7 1 (3.85%) C++
7 1 (3.85%) Kotlin
7 1 (3.85%) Perl
7 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) ISO 20022
1 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) KVM
2 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Grafana
1 2 (7.69%) Prometheus
1 2 (7.69%) Terraform
2 1 (3.85%) Ansible
2 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (7.69%) Foundry
1 2 (7.69%) VMware
2 1 (3.85%) Google
2 1 (3.85%) Red Hat