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 17 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 340 392
Rank change year-on-year -6 +52 +29
Contract jobs citing Blockchain 25 38 49
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.19% 0.24% 0.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.48% 0.70% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 26 32
10th Percentile £361 £463 £475
25th Percentile £447 £599 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £648 £640 £638
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% +0.39% +6.25%
75th Percentile £750 £725 £738
90th Percentile £794 £872 £775
England median daily rate £648 £695 £588
% change year-on-year -6.76% +18.30% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 5,216 5,429 7,214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.92% 33.94% 34.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,346 3,489 5,212
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £442 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £700 £725 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £825
England median daily rate £525 £546 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.73% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 70 90
10th Percentile £17.20 £17.48 £18.76
25th Percentile £22.88 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £26.40 £34.13 £29.86
Median % change year-on-year -22.64% +14.28% +2.97%
75th Percentile £47.00 £57.13 £52.00
90th Percentile £76.88 £78.95 £72.62
England median hourly rate £29.27 £54.00 £46.03
% change year-on-year -45.80% +17.31% +78.69%

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 17 October 2025.

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 17 October 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
Central London +1 2 £463 -30.19% 35
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 7 (28.00%) Hyperledger
2 6 (24.00%) Ethereum
3 1 (4.00%) Solana
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 8 (32.00%) GCP
2 6 (24.00%) AWS
3 5 (20.00%) Azure
4 3 (12.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 3 (12.00%) Stackdriver
5 1 (4.00%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Firewall
1 1 (4.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Metadata
1 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Hardhat
2 3 (12.00%) GitLab
2 3 (12.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.00%) Git
General
1 14 (56.00%) Finance
2 7 (28.00%) Banking
3 6 (24.00%) Legal
3 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (20.00%) Back Office
4 5 (20.00%) Investment Banking
5 2 (8.00%) Marketing
6 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
6 1 (4.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) Blockchain Developer
1 5 (20.00%) Developer
2 4 (16.00%) Software Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) GCP DevOps
3 3 (12.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) GCP Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Java Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Product Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Engineering Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Python Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Python Software Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Subject Matter Expert
5 1 (4.00%) Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Compliance Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Designer
5 1 (4.00%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (40.00%) Smart Contracts
2 6 (24.00%) REST
2 6 (24.00%) web3js
3 4 (16.00%) Truffle
4 1 (4.00%) .NET
4 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (4.00%) ERC20
4 1 (4.00%) Quarkus
4 1 (4.00%) SOAP
4 1 (4.00%) Spring
4 1 (4.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (16.00%) Web3
3 3 (12.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (4.00%) Low-Code
5 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
5 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
5 1 (4.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Android
1 1 (4.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) DevOps
2 7 (28.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (28.00%) Roadmaps
3 6 (24.00%) Product Roadmap
4 5 (20.00%) Fintech
4 5 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 5 (20.00%) Use Case
5 4 (16.00%) Agile
5 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (16.00%) Product Vision
5 4 (16.00%) SDLC
5 4 (16.00%) TDD
6 3 (12.00%) AIOps
6 3 (12.00%) DevSecOps
6 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (12.00%) MLOps
6 3 (12.00%) Product Strategy
6 3 (12.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) Java
2 10 (40.00%) Python
3 5 (20.00%) DAML
4 4 (16.00%) Bash
4 4 (16.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (16.00%) Solidity
5 2 (8.00%) Rust
6 1 (4.00%) C
6 1 (4.00%) C++
6 1 (4.00%) Go
6 1 (4.00%) Kotlin
6 1 (4.00%) Perl
6 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Degree
2 3 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (8.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (8.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Docker
2 2 (8.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.00%) KVM
3 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (16.00%) Grafana
2 4 (16.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (12.00%) Ansible
3 3 (12.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Google
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.00%) Foundry
3 1 (4.00%) VMware