Distributed Ledger Contracts in England

Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT, Shared Ledger)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Distributed Ledger skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Ledger over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 518 634
Rank change year-on-year +37 +116 +135
Contract jobs citing Distributed Ledger 4 24 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.016% 0.065% 0.038%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.21% 0.92% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 17 16
10th Percentile - £670 £650
25th Percentile £825 £700 £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £725 £725
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £875 £788 £775
90th Percentile - £875 £863
UK median daily rate £850 £725 £725
% change year-on-year +17.24% - +38.10%

All Business Application Skills
England

Distributed Ledger falls under the Business Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring business application skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 1,949 2,595 3,043
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 8.00% 6.98% 6.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,165 1,610 1,923
10th Percentile £400 £363 £376
25th Percentile £475 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £669 £688 £688
90th Percentile £788 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £565 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +2.73% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 101 50
10th Percentile £22.27 £14.71 £22.40
25th Percentile £40.00 £21.25 £30.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £41.23 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.53% -13.20% +40.75%
75th Percentile £77.50 £58.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £62.50 £70.75
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £43.75 £47.50
% change year-on-year +37.14% -7.89% +35.71%

Distributed Ledger
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Distributed Ledger as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Ledger in England

Distributed Ledger
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Distributed Ledger in England.

Daily rate trend for Distributed Ledger in England

Distributed Ledger
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Distributed Ledger in England.

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Ledger in England

Distributed Ledger
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 Distributed Ledger within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +17 3 £850 +17.24% 9
North West - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - - 1
Distributed Ledger
UK

Distributed Ledger
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Java Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Architect
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Solution Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Gen AI Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Blockchain
1 1 (25.00%) DTCC
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (25.00%) GitOps
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Lean Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (25.00%) VMware