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 16 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 483 550 586
Rank change year-on-year +67 +36 -14
Contract jobs citing Blockchain 67 86 201
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.18% 0.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.59% 0.54% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 59 177
10th Percentile £463 £438 £425
25th Percentile £488 £538 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £731 £738 £750
90th Percentile £770 £793 £875
UK median daily rate £625 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £92.50 £56.50
Median hourly rate - £95.00 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year - +61.02% -
75th Percentile - £97.50 £61.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £95.00 £59.00
% 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 11,349 15,786 23,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.26% 33.56% 33.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,319 11,005 17,096
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £698 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 850 549 600
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.39 £10.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.04
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

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 16 June 2024.

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 16 June 2024. 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 +58 52 £650 +0.97% 75
North of England - 5 £463 - 4
South West +4 4 - - 2
North West - 4 £463 - 4
Midlands +17 1 £550 - 1
South East +13 1 £550 -24.14% 5
Yorkshire - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £550 -
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 4 (5.97%) Ethereum
2 3 (4.48%) Hyperledger
3 1 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.49%) CMS
3 1 (1.49%) MetaMask
3 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.49%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.49%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 19 (28.36%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (4.48%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 10 (14.93%) AWS
2 9 (13.43%) GCP
3 4 (5.97%) OCI
4 3 (4.48%) WhatsApp
5 2 (2.99%) Azure
5 2 (2.99%) GitHub
6 1 (1.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (1.49%) Contentful
6 1 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.49%) IaaS
6 1 (1.49%) PaaS
6 1 (1.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.96%) Internet
2 1 (1.49%) Firewall
2 1 (1.49%) SSH
2 1 (1.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.46%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.97%) Data Lake
2 4 (5.97%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.99%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.49%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Git
2 3 (4.48%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.99%) GitLab
4 1 (1.49%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.49%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.49%) Gatling
4 1 (1.49%) Jaeger
4 1 (1.49%) JMeter
4 1 (1.49%) Selenium
4 1 (1.49%) Spinnaker
4 1 (1.49%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.49%) WebDriver
General
1 22 (32.84%) Finance
1 22 (32.84%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.94%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.97%) Banking
3 4 (5.97%) Financial Institution
3 4 (5.97%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.97%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.99%) Marketing
4 2 (2.99%) Public Speaking
5 1 (1.49%) Games
5 1 (1.49%) Law
Job Titles
1 18 (26.87%) Architect
2 15 (22.39%) Developer
3 12 (17.91%) Solutions Architect
4 9 (13.43%) Blockchain Developer
5 7 (10.45%) Blockchain Architect
5 7 (10.45%) Blockchain Engineer
5 7 (10.45%) Lead
5 7 (10.45%) Senior
6 5 (7.46%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (7.46%) Product Manager
7 4 (5.97%) Data Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) Blockchain Lead
8 3 (4.48%) Senior Developer
9 2 (2.99%) Applications Architect
9 2 (2.99%) ERP Architect
9 2 (2.99%) IT Architect
9 2 (2.99%) JavaScript Engineer
9 2 (2.99%) Software Engineer
9 2 (2.99%) Technical Manager
9 2 (2.99%) Technical Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.42%) Node.js
2 10 (14.93%) web3js
3 8 (11.94%) React
4 7 (10.45%) Smart Contracts
5 5 (7.46%) .NET
5 5 (7.46%) OpenID
6 4 (5.97%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (4.48%) AngularJS
7 3 (4.48%) CSS
7 3 (4.48%) HTML
8 2 (2.99%) ASP.NET
8 2 (2.99%) Django
8 2 (2.99%) Hugging Face
8 2 (2.99%) JSON
8 2 (2.99%) Vue
9 1 (1.49%) GraphQL
9 1 (1.49%) Jetpack Compose
9 1 (1.49%) SwiftUI
9 1 (1.49%) TensorFlow
9 1 (1.49%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 17 (25.37%) Web3
2 9 (13.43%) IoT
3 7 (10.45%) Distributed Applications
4 6 (8.96%) CBDC
5 5 (7.46%) Algorithms
6 4 (5.97%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (4.48%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.99%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (2.99%) NFT
8 2 (2.99%) Product Ownership
9 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.49%) PKI
9 1 (1.49%) Sports Betting
9 1 (1.49%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.97%) Linux
2 2 (2.99%) Android
3 1 (1.49%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.49%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (19.40%) Fintech
2 12 (17.91%) Computer Science
3 11 (16.42%) Cryptography
3 11 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (14.93%) DeFi
4 10 (14.93%) Software Engineering
5 9 (13.43%) Agile
5 9 (13.43%) Artificial Intelligence
6 8 (11.94%) API Development
6 8 (11.94%) Data Science
6 8 (11.94%) DevOps
6 8 (11.94%) Microservices
7 7 (10.45%) Machine Learning
8 6 (8.96%) Translating Business Requirements
9 5 (7.46%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (7.46%) Decision-Making
9 5 (7.46%) Strategic Thinking
9 5 (7.46%) Use Case
10 4 (5.97%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 4 (5.97%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.94%) Java
2 7 (10.45%) Python
3 6 (8.96%) C++
3 6 (8.96%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.97%) Solidity
4 4 (5.97%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.48%) SQL
6 2 (2.99%) DAML
6 2 (2.99%) Go
6 2 (2.99%) Kotlin
6 2 (2.99%) PHP
6 2 (2.99%) Rust
7 1 (1.49%) Bash
7 1 (1.49%) C#
7 1 (1.49%) Perl
7 1 (1.49%) Ruby
7 1 (1.49%) Scala
7 1 (1.49%) Swift
Qualifications
1 12 (17.91%) Degree
1 12 (17.91%) SC Cleared
1 12 (17.91%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.97%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.99%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.99%) QA
2 1 (1.49%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (7.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (13.43%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.97%) Terraform
3 3 (4.48%) Grafana
4 2 (2.99%) Ansible
4 2 (2.99%) Argo
4 2 (2.99%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (8.96%) Oracle
2 2 (2.99%) SAP
3 1 (1.49%) Finsemble