Web3 Contract Job Trends in England

Web3
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Web3 in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Web3 over the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 531 491 551
Rank change year-on-year -40 +60 +165
Contract jobs citing Web3 6 5 10
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.019% 0.017% 0.027%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.054% 0.053% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 6
10th Percentile £300 £625 £313
25th Percentile £325 £644 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £750 £450
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% -23.73%
75th Percentile £475 £888 £494
90th Percentile £513 £925 £505
UK median daily rate £450 £750 £450
% change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% -23.73%

All Generic Skills
England

Web3 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 11,210 9,355 11,886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.60% 32.39% 31.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,064 5,674 8,056
10th Percentile £281 £279 £263
25th Percentile £408 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.31%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £503 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.51% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 277 458
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.08 £16.75
25th Percentile £18.25 £23.59 £20.89
Median hourly rate £29.00 £37.00 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -21.62% -15.60% +25.25%
75th Percentile £61.50 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £32.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -16.92% -22.94% +21.43%

Web3
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Web3 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Web3 job vacancy trend in England

Web3
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Web3.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Web3

Web3
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web3 in England over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Web3 in England

Web3
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 Web3 within the England region over the 6 months to 20 December 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 +1 5 £400 -46.67% 7
Web3
UK

Web3
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 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Datadog
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Hardhat
General
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Blockchain Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Smart Contracts
1 5 (83.33%) web3js
2 3 (50.00%) Next.js
2 3 (50.00%) React Native
3 1 (16.67%) .NET
3 1 (16.67%) CSS
3 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) React
3 1 (16.67%) Truffle
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Blockchain
2 3 (50.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Android
1 3 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) API Integration
2 3 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (50.00%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Identity
3 1 (16.67%) Front End Development
3 1 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (16.67%) Observability
3 1 (16.67%) Open Source
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 4 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) C
3 1 (16.67%) C++
3 1 (16.67%) Go
3 1 (16.67%) Perl
3 1 (16.67%) Rust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
1 1 (16.67%) KVM
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Foundry
1 1 (16.67%) VMware