Smart Contracts Contracts in England

Smart Contract
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Smart Contracts skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Smart Contracts 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 474 531 635
Rank change year-on-year +57 +104 +103
Contract jobs citing Smart Contracts 11 11 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.045% 0.030% 0.036%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.20% 0.15% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 13
10th Percentile £585 £470 £533
25th Percentile £597 £525 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £725
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -10.34% +16.00%
75th Percentile £883 £775 £800
90th Percentile £998 £778 £868
UK median daily rate £675 £650 £738
% change year-on-year +3.85% -11.86% +20.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £62.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £62.00 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Smart Contracts falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Smart Contracts
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Smart Contracts as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Smart Contracts in England

Smart Contracts
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Smart Contracts in England.

Daily rate trend for Smart Contracts in England

Smart Contracts
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Smart Contracts in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Smart Contracts in England

Smart Contracts
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 Smart Contracts 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 +43 11 £675 -3.57% 44
Smart Contracts
UK

Smart Contracts
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 1 (9.09%) Ethereum
1 1 (9.09%) Hyperledger
1 1 (9.09%) MetaMask
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Azure
3 3 (27.27%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Hardhat
General
1 10 (90.91%) Finance
2 8 (72.73%) Banking
3 7 (63.64%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (54.55%) Investment Banking
5 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Developer
2 5 (45.45%) Blockchain Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Java Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Architect
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Blockchain Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Java Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Product Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior
5 1 (9.09%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
2 1 (9.09%) React
2 1 (9.09%) RESTful
2 1 (9.09%) Truffle
2 1 (9.09%) Vue
2 1 (9.09%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) Blockchain
2 7 (63.64%) Equities
2 7 (63.64%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) TDD
2 5 (45.45%) SDLC
3 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
4 2 (18.18%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (9.09%) Cryptography
5 1 (9.09%) Front End Development
5 1 (9.09%) Low Latency
5 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
5 1 (9.09%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (9.09%) Secure Coding
5 1 (9.09%) Software Delivery
5 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
5 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (9.09%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (9.09%) Threat Modelling
5 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Python
2 8 (72.73%) Java
3 7 (63.64%) JavaScript
4 4 (36.36%) DAML
4 4 (36.36%) Solidity
5 2 (18.18%) C++
5 2 (18.18%) Rust
6 1 (9.09%) C
6 1 (9.09%) Go
6 1 (9.09%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) PhD
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Alibaba
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle