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 12 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 475 521 616
Rank change year-on-year +46 +95 +92
Contract jobs citing Smart Contracts 13 9 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.053% 0.024% 0.032%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.24% 0.11% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 12
10th Percentile £631 £485 £571
25th Percentile £648 £538 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £738
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -11.86% +5.36%
75th Percentile £888 £725 £809
90th Percentile £975 £775 £871
UK median daily rate £675 £688 £738
% change year-on-year -1.82% -6.78% +5.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £62.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.97% - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £62.00 -
% change year-on-year +20.97% - -

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 5,525 7,835 10,661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.53% 20.91% 22.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,838 5,501 7,934
10th Percentile £360 £350 £394
25th Percentile £413 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £788 £800 £798
UK median daily rate £520 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -3.26% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 248 135
10th Percentile £31.07 £22.68 £32.45
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £48.97 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.64% -24.67% +23.22%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.22 £75.00 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £58.88 £49.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.94% -23.85% +23.81%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +54 12 £675 +3.85% 38
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 2 (15.38%) Hyperledger
2 1 (7.69%) Ethereum
2 1 (7.69%) MetaMask
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) Azure
3 5 (38.46%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Metadata
1 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Hardhat
General
1 9 (69.23%) Finance
2 8 (61.54%) Banking
3 7 (53.85%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (46.15%) Investment Banking
5 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
6 2 (15.38%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Blockchain Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Java Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Blockchain Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Java Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior
4 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Product Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Python Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Python Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) REST
2 3 (23.08%) web3js
3 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
3 1 (7.69%) ERC20
3 1 (7.69%) ethers.js
3 1 (7.69%) Node.js
3 1 (7.69%) React
3 1 (7.69%) RESTful
3 1 (7.69%) Truffle
3 1 (7.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (76.92%) Blockchain
2 7 (53.85%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (38.46%) Equities
4 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
4 2 (15.38%) Web3
5 1 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) SDLC
1 7 (53.85%) TDD
2 5 (38.46%) DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling
4 2 (15.38%) DeFi
4 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (15.38%) Project Delivery
4 2 (15.38%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (7.69%) Agile
5 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
5 1 (7.69%) Cryptography
5 1 (7.69%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
5 1 (7.69%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (7.69%) Static Application Security Testing
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) Python
2 8 (61.54%) Java
3 7 (53.85%) JavaScript
4 6 (46.15%) DAML
5 4 (30.77%) Solidity
6 3 (23.08%) Rust
7 2 (15.38%) C++
7 2 (15.38%) Go
8 1 (7.69%) C
8 1 (7.69%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) PhD
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Alibaba
2 1 (7.69%) Foundry
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle