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 16 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 350 368 397
Rank change year-on-year +18 +29 +46
Contract jobs citing Blockchain 18 30 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.19% 0.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.35% 0.56% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 22 32
10th Percentile £320 £463 £475
25th Percentile £631 £488 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £660 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +1.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £731 £725 £738
90th Percentile £750 £893 £784
England median daily rate £649 £695 £650
% change year-on-year -6.62% +6.92% +8.33%
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 5,074 5,393 7,803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.06% 33.62% 35.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,282 3,573 5,646
10th Percentile £333 £325 £350
25th Percentile £438 £450 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.26% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £700 £738 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £825
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 68 86
10th Percentile £16.37 £17.25 £17.28
25th Percentile £23.98 £23.35 £19.99
Median hourly rate £27.50 £31.31 £29.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.17% +5.24% -2.46%
75th Percentile £46.35 £54.06 £53.19
90th Percentile £69.75 £71.44 £74.33
England median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £45.88
% change year-on-year -42.37% +25.00% +76.46%

Blockchain
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Blockchain as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Blockchain 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 3 £675 +17.39% 14
Blockchain
England

Blockchain
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (5.56%) Apache
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.56%) Hyperledger
1 1 (5.56%) Solana
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 11 (61.11%) AWS
2 9 (50.00%) Azure
2 9 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (5.56%) Datadog
3 1 (5.56%) dbt
3 1 (5.56%) GitHub
3 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
1 1 (5.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Airbyte
1 1 (5.56%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (5.56%) BigQuery
1 1 (5.56%) DynamoDB
1 1 (5.56%) Metadata
1 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) Hardhat
General
1 9 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 9 (50.00%) Banking
1 9 (50.00%) Finance
2 8 (44.44%) Investment Banking
3 5 (27.78%) Back Office
4 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Legal
6 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
6 1 (5.56%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Blockchain Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Java Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Software Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Java Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Python Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Python Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Architect
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Compliance Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Designer
5 1 (5.56%) Payments Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Product Designer
5 1 (5.56%) Rust Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (61.11%) Smart Contracts
2 9 (50.00%) REST
3 3 (16.67%) web3js
4 2 (11.11%) Spring Boot
5 1 (5.56%) .NET
5 1 (5.56%) Django
5 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (5.56%) ERC20
5 1 (5.56%) FastAPI
5 1 (5.56%) Flask
5 1 (5.56%) Great Expectations
5 1 (5.56%) Kafka
5 1 (5.56%) Node.js
5 1 (5.56%) pytest
5 1 (5.56%) Quarkus
5 1 (5.56%) RESTful
5 1 (5.56%) SOAP
5 1 (5.56%) Spring
5 1 (5.56%) Truffle
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (22.22%) Equities
2 4 (22.22%) Web3
3 2 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Android
1 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) DevOps
2 8 (44.44%) SDLC
2 8 (44.44%) TDD
3 6 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 3 (16.67%) Fintech
5 2 (11.11%) Agile
5 2 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (11.11%) Data Protection
5 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
6 1 (5.56%) Analytics
6 1 (5.56%) Change Management
6 1 (5.56%) Data Management
6 1 (5.56%) Data Modelling
6 1 (5.56%) Information Architecture
6 1 (5.56%) Migration
6 1 (5.56%) Risk Assessment
6 1 (5.56%) Use Case
6 1 (5.56%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) Java
1 12 (66.67%) Python
2 9 (50.00%) DAML
3 8 (44.44%) JavaScript
4 2 (11.11%) Rust
5 1 (5.56%) Bash
5 1 (5.56%) C
5 1 (5.56%) C++
5 1 (5.56%) Go
5 1 (5.56%) Kotlin
5 1 (5.56%) Perl
5 1 (5.56%) Solidity
5 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) ISO 20022
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) KVM
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Grafana
1 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) Foundry
1 1 (5.56%) VMware