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 18 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 499 520 581
Rank change year-on-year +21 +61 +181
Contract jobs citing Distributed Ledger 3 8 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.011% 0.024% 0.057%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.13% 0.34% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 21
10th Percentile £1,005 £721 £600
25th Percentile £1,013 £727 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,075 £775 £700
Median % change year-on-year +38.71% +10.71% +27.27%
75th Percentile £1,138 £863 £738
90th Percentile £1,145 £875 £850
UK median daily rate £1,075 £775 £700
% change year-on-year +38.71% +10.71% +27.27%

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 2,332 2,357 2,938
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 8.44% 7.11% 6.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,422 1,404 1,755
10th Percentile £360 £371 £363
25th Percentile £447 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £555
Median % change year-on-year - -0.90% -1.77%
75th Percentile £674 £688 £680
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 74 61
10th Percentile £12.86 £23.43 £26.00
25th Percentile £27.06 £35.09 £49.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -20.34% +45.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.20 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £67.05 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £53.67
% change year-on-year -15.56% -16.15% +19.26%

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 18 August 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 +4 2 £1,075 +38.71% 14
North West - 1 - -
North of England - 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Snowflake
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Big Data
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Lead
2 2 (66.67%) Lead Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Lead Enterprise Architect
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Architect
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Solution Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Solutions Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (33.33%) Blockchain
2 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Private Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) API Management
2 2 (66.67%) Asset Management
2 2 (66.67%) Business Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Investment Management
2 2 (66.67%) IT Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) R
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Bloomberg
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks
1 2 (66.67%) Refinitiv
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) VMware