CBDC Contract Job Trends in England

Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CBDC in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CBDC over the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 533 - 574
Rank change year-on-year - - +191
Contract jobs citing CBDC 2 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.007% - 0.013%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.018% - 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.00%
UK median daily rate - - £525
% change year-on-year - - -30.00%

All Generic Skills
England

CBDC 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 10,821 9,766 12,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.38% 31.24% 32.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,767 5,850 8,809
10th Percentile £286 £294 £281
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 591 296 464
10th Percentile £14.34 £16.49 £17.15
25th Percentile £18.50 £23.75 £21.31
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% +6.15% +65.86%
75th Percentile £50.88 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.00 £75.16 £77.85
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.50% -10.11% +64.94%

CBDC
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

CBDC job vacancy trend in England

CBDC
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CBDC

CBDC
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 CBDC within the England region over the 6 months to 7 November 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 - 2 - - 8
CBDC
UK

CBDC
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (100.00%) Military
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Python Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Currency
1 2 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Development
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C
1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) Go
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform