Blockchain Contract Job Trends in London

Blockchain
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blockchain in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Blockchain over the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 435 348 361
Rank change year-on-year -87 +13 +42
Contract jobs citing Blockchain 19 19 28
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.093% 0.14% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.25% 0.37% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 21
10th Percentile £508 £337 £463
25th Percentile £522 £635 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -15.78% +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £763 £723 £725
90th Percentile £868 £750 £900
England median daily rate £569 £649 £625
% change year-on-year -12.40% +3.84% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
England median hourly rate - £75.00 -

All Generic Skills
London

Blockchain 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 7,690 5,142 5,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.82% 38.36% 33.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,826 3,342 3,640
10th Percentile £350 £335 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £738
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 120 72
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £17.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.24 £22.00
Median hourly rate £33.60 £28.60 £30.11
Median % change year-on-year +17.49% -5.01% -13.99%
75th Percentile £56.25 £46.81 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.63 £71.25
England median hourly rate £37.50 £33.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +13.64% -42.46% +25.00%

Blockchain
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Blockchain job vacancy trend in London

Blockchain
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Blockchain.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Blockchain

Blockchain
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Blockchain in London over the 6 months to 9 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Blockchain in London

Blockchain
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Blockchain.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Blockchain

Blockchain
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Blockchain within the London region over the 6 months to 9 September 2026. 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
Central London -24 1 £525 -22.51% 6
East London - 1 £432 - 2
West London - 1 - - 7
Blockchain
England

Blockchain
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (68.42%) Ethereum
2 5 (26.32%) Hyperledger
3 1 (5.26%) CMS
3 1 (5.26%) Solana
Business Applications
1 5 (26.32%) R3 Corda
2 4 (21.05%) Quorum
2 4 (21.05%) Ripple
3 3 (15.79%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) Azure
2 7 (36.84%) AWS
3 4 (21.05%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) RDBMS
1 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Hardhat
General
1 12 (63.16%) Finance
2 5 (26.32%) Banking
3 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Developer
2 8 (42.11%) Blockchain Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Senior
4 3 (15.79%) Lead
4 3 (15.79%) Senior Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Blockchain Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Lead Software Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Blockchain Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Content Manager
6 1 (5.26%) Digital Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Digital Content Manager
6 1 (5.26%) Monitoring Specialist
6 1 (5.26%) Platform Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Content Manager
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) Smart Contracts
1 7 (36.84%) web3js
2 5 (26.32%) Node.js
3 4 (21.05%) REST
3 4 (21.05%) RESTful
3 4 (21.05%) Spring
3 4 (21.05%) Spring Boot
4 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
4 2 (10.53%) React
5 1 (5.26%) ethers.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Cloud Native
1 7 (36.84%) Web3
2 6 (31.58%) Product Ownership
3 2 (10.53%) Derivative
3 2 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (10.53%) OTC Derivatives
4 1 (5.26%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.26%) Clustering
4 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.26%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Event-Driven
2 7 (36.84%) Software Engineering
3 6 (31.58%) Microservices
4 4 (21.05%) AI
4 4 (21.05%) Data Modelling
5 3 (15.79%) API Development
5 3 (15.79%) Backlog Management
5 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (15.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 3 (15.79%) Event-Driven Programming
5 3 (15.79%) Integration Patterns
5 3 (15.79%) Prototyping
6 2 (10.53%) Business Strategy
6 2 (10.53%) CI/CD
6 2 (10.53%) Front End Development
6 2 (10.53%) Key Management
6 2 (10.53%) OOP
6 2 (10.53%) Portfolio Management
6 2 (10.53%) Product Backlog
6 2 (10.53%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) Java
2 6 (31.58%) Solidity
3 4 (21.05%) TypeScript
4 3 (15.79%) C#
4 3 (15.79%) DAML
4 3 (15.79%) Python
5 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
5 2 (10.53%) SQL
6 1 (5.26%) Go
6 1 (5.26%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Google