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 5 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 611 486 478
Rank change year-on-year -125 -8 +64
Contract jobs citing Blockchain 29 31 53
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.063% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.18% 0.31% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 21 36
10th Percentile £521 £413 £463
25th Percentile £553 £456 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £691 £648 £673
Median % change year-on-year +6.64% -3.64% +7.60%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £725
90th Percentile £783 - £834
UK median daily rate £671 £643 £630
% change year-on-year +4.32% +2.02% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
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 15,836 10,154 10,035
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.34% 36.36% 30.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,511 6,358 6,064
10th Percentile £325 £300 £294
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year - -3.27% -1.32%
75th Percentile £644 £645 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £527
% change year-on-year +0.96% -1.28% -4.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,155 528 372
10th Percentile £13.95 £15.13 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.57 £18.87 £24.18
Median hourly rate £33.99 £30.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +13.30% -47.69% +24.59%
75th Percentile £67.77 £56.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.32 £73.75 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £28.13 £49.75
% change year-on-year +28.00% -43.47% +11.17%

Blockchain
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Blockchain relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Blockchain job vacancy trend 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 5 October 2026.

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 5 October 2026. 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 -85 25 £691 +7.51% 283
North of England -67 4 - - 19
North West -43 2 - - 7
Yorkshire - 2 - - 9
Blockchain
UK

Blockchain
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 16 (55.17%) Ethereum
2 5 (17.24%) Hyperledger
3 4 (13.79%) Solana
Business Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Distributed Ledger
2 5 (17.24%) R3 Corda
3 4 (13.79%) Quorum
3 4 (13.79%) Ripple
Cloud Services
1 10 (34.48%) Azure
2 9 (31.03%) AWS
3 6 (20.69%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) RDBMS
1 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Claude Code
General
1 21 (72.41%) Finance
2 10 (34.48%) Banking
3 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Back Office
5 1 (3.45%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (48.28%) Developer
2 10 (34.48%) Senior
3 8 (27.59%) Blockchain Developer
4 7 (24.14%) Architect
4 7 (24.14%) Senior Developer
5 4 (13.79%) Enterprise Architect
5 4 (13.79%) Java Developer
5 4 (13.79%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Blockchain Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Lead
6 3 (10.34%) Senior Architect
6 3 (10.34%) Senior Enterprise Architect
7 2 (6.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Java Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Lead Software Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Software Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Digital Architect
8 1 (3.45%) Platform Architect
8 1 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (41.38%) Smart Contracts
2 6 (20.69%) Spring
2 6 (20.69%) Spring Boot
2 6 (20.69%) web3js
3 4 (13.79%) AngularJS
3 4 (13.79%) Node.js
3 4 (13.79%) React
3 4 (13.79%) REST
3 4 (13.79%) RESTful
4 2 (6.90%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (6.90%) Redux
5 1 (3.45%) Kafka
5 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Cloud Native
1 7 (24.14%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (20.69%) Product Ownership
2 6 (20.69%) Web3
3 4 (13.79%) AI Agents
4 3 (10.34%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (6.90%) Derivative
5 2 (6.90%) Equities
5 2 (6.90%) Fixed Income
5 2 (6.90%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (6.90%) OTC Derivatives
6 1 (3.45%) Clustering
6 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
6 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
6 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) Event-Driven
2 11 (37.93%) AI
2 11 (37.93%) Software Engineering
3 8 (27.59%) Microservices
4 6 (20.69%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 5 (17.24%) DeFi
5 5 (17.24%) Enterprise Architecture
5 5 (17.24%) Integration Patterns
6 4 (13.79%) Architectural Patterns
6 4 (13.79%) Architecture Governance
6 4 (13.79%) Data Loss Prevention
6 4 (13.79%) Data Modelling
6 4 (13.79%) Fintech
6 4 (13.79%) Front End Development
6 4 (13.79%) Machine Learning
6 4 (13.79%) Roadmaps
6 4 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (10.34%) API Development
7 3 (10.34%) Business Strategy
7 3 (10.34%) Event-Driven Programming
Programming Languages
1 15 (51.72%) Java
2 7 (24.14%) Solidity
3 6 (20.69%) TypeScript
4 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
4 4 (13.79%) Python
5 2 (6.90%) C#
5 2 (6.90%) DAML
5 2 (6.90%) SQL
6 1 (3.45%) Go
6 1 (3.45%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (6.90%) Degree
2 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (10.34%) Google