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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 472 485 557
Rank change year-on-year +13 +72 +22
Contract jobs citing Blockchain 24 68 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.094% 0.18% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.27% 0.60% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 44 51
10th Percentile £481 £463 £475
25th Percentile £500 £488 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £643 £613 £690
Median % change year-on-year +4.94% -11.23% +15.00%
75th Percentile £676 £728 £738
90th Percentile £713 £768 £813
UK median daily rate £619 £613 £690
% change year-on-year +1.02% -11.23% +15.00%
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 8,837 11,352 15,746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.63% 30.57% 33.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,647 7,308 10,973
10th Percentile £305 £280 £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 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 427 840 524
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.23 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.39 £11.87
Median hourly rate £32.81 £37.00 £23.65
Median % change year-on-year -11.32% +56.48% -10.77%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £62.97
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.50 £77.13
UK median hourly rate £30.90 £35.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year -13.32% +58.44% -16.60%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 +15 13 £648 -0.31% 897
Midlands +15 5 £500 -9.09% 38
West Midlands - 5 £500 - 16
North of England +3 3 - - 55
Yorkshire 0 2 - - 15
South East +53 1 £650 +18.18% 88
North West +10 1 - - 37
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 (12.50%) Hyperledger
2 1 (4.17%) Apache
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.17%) Ethereum
2 1 (4.17%) MetaMask
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (4.17%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) AWS
2 6 (25.00%) Azure
2 6 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (4.17%) dbt
3 1 (4.17%) GitHub
3 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (4.17%) Google Docs
3 1 (4.17%) Google Sheets
3 1 (4.17%) Google Workspace
3 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
3 1 (4.17%) Serverless
3 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
1 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.17%) Airbyte
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (4.17%) BigQuery
2 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.17%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Hardhat
2 1 (4.17%) Git
General
1 9 (37.50%) Finance
2 8 (33.33%) Banking
3 7 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (25.00%) Investment Banking
5 2 (8.33%) Back Office
5 2 (8.33%) Legal
5 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Architect
2 7 (29.17%) Applications Architect
2 7 (29.17%) Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Blockchain Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Java Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Blockchain Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Java Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior
5 2 (8.33%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) AWS Architect
6 1 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) AWS Solution Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Compliance Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Hyperledger Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Lead
6 1 (4.17%) Python Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (50.00%) Smart Contracts
2 5 (20.83%) REST
2 5 (20.83%) web3js
3 2 (8.33%) Kafka
3 2 (8.33%) Node.js
3 2 (8.33%) Truffle
4 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.17%) Django
4 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (4.17%) ERC20
4 1 (4.17%) ethers.js
4 1 (4.17%) FastAPI
4 1 (4.17%) Flask
4 1 (4.17%) Great Expectations
4 1 (4.17%) pytest
4 1 (4.17%) React
4 1 (4.17%) RESTful
4 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.17%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) IoT
1 7 (29.17%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (25.00%) Data Structures
3 5 (20.83%) Equities
3 5 (20.83%) Web3
4 2 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (4.17%) Private Cloud
5 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) DevOps
2 8 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 8 (33.33%) Migration
3 7 (29.17%) Agile
3 7 (29.17%) Architectural Design
3 7 (29.17%) Microservices
3 7 (29.17%) TDD
4 6 (25.00%) Cost Reduction
4 6 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 6 (25.00%) Interface Catalogue
4 6 (25.00%) Project Planning
4 6 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 6 (25.00%) SDLC
4 6 (25.00%) SOA
4 6 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
5 3 (12.50%) Fintech
5 3 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 2 (8.33%) Analytics
6 2 (8.33%) Cryptocurrency
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) Python
2 9 (37.50%) Java
3 7 (29.17%) JavaScript
4 6 (25.00%) DAML
5 4 (16.67%) Solidity
6 3 (12.50%) Go
6 3 (12.50%) Rust
7 1 (4.17%) C
7 1 (4.17%) C++
7 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
1 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.17%) PhD
3 1 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Terraform
2 1 (4.17%) Ansible
2 1 (4.17%) Grafana
2 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Foundry
2 1 (4.17%) Google
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle
2 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.17%) VMware