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 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 339 343
Rank change year-on-year -93 +4 +34
Contract jobs citing Blockchain 25 26 38
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.12% 0.19% 0.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.32% 0.50% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 18 26
10th Percentile £521 £374 £463
25th Percentile £553 £449 £599
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £691 £643 £640
Median % change year-on-year +7.51% +0.43% +0.39%
75th Percentile £750 £745 £725
90th Percentile £783 £750 £872
England median daily rate £691 £648 £695
% change year-on-year +6.64% -6.76% +13.47%
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 7,733 5,212 5,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.27% 38.79% 33.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,919 3,355 3,522
10th Percentile £356 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £442 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £541
% change year-on-year - -3.00% -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 123 71
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.02 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.49 £23.23 £23.80
Median hourly rate £36.00 £26.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.85% -18.46% +15.56%
75th Percentile £60.25 £46.88 £55.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £77.50 £78.40
England median hourly rate £33.99 £30.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year +13.30% -44.44% +17.31%

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 October 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 October 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 -21 1 £525 -17.65% 20
West London - 1 - - 1
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 16 (64.00%) Ethereum
2 5 (20.00%) Hyperledger
3 4 (16.00%) Solana
Business Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Distributed Ledger
2 5 (20.00%) R3 Corda
3 4 (16.00%) Quorum
3 4 (16.00%) Ripple
Cloud Services
1 10 (40.00%) Azure
2 9 (36.00%) AWS
3 6 (24.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Claude Code
General
1 18 (72.00%) Finance
2 6 (24.00%) Banking
3 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Back Office
5 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (56.00%) Developer
2 8 (32.00%) Blockchain Developer
3 7 (28.00%) Senior
3 7 (28.00%) Senior Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Java Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Architect
5 3 (12.00%) Blockchain Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Lead
6 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Java Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Lead Software Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Software Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Digital Architect
7 1 (4.00%) Java Developer - Fintech
7 1 (4.00%) Monitoring Specialist
7 1 (4.00%) Payments Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.00%) Platform Architect
7 1 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (48.00%) Smart Contracts
2 6 (24.00%) Spring
2 6 (24.00%) Spring Boot
2 6 (24.00%) web3js
3 4 (16.00%) AngularJS
3 4 (16.00%) Node.js
3 4 (16.00%) React
3 4 (16.00%) REST
3 4 (16.00%) RESTful
4 2 (8.00%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (8.00%) Redux
5 1 (4.00%) Kafka
5 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Cloud Native
1 7 (28.00%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (24.00%) Product Ownership
2 6 (24.00%) Web3
3 2 (8.00%) Derivative
3 2 (8.00%) Equities
3 2 (8.00%) Fixed Income
3 2 (8.00%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (8.00%) OTC Derivatives
4 1 (4.00%) Clustering
4 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) Event-Driven
1 11 (44.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (28.00%) AI
3 6 (24.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 6 (24.00%) Microservices
4 5 (20.00%) DeFi
5 4 (16.00%) Data Modelling
5 4 (16.00%) Fintech
5 4 (16.00%) Front End Development
6 3 (12.00%) API Development
6 3 (12.00%) Event-Driven Programming
7 2 (8.00%) Architectural Patterns
7 2 (8.00%) Backlog Management
7 2 (8.00%) CI/CD
7 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 2 (8.00%) Integration Patterns
7 2 (8.00%) Key Management
7 2 (8.00%) OOP
7 2 (8.00%) Product Backlog
7 2 (8.00%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 15 (60.00%) Java
2 7 (28.00%) Solidity
3 6 (24.00%) TypeScript
4 4 (16.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (16.00%) Python
5 2 (8.00%) C#
5 2 (8.00%) DAML
5 2 (8.00%) SQL
6 1 (4.00%) Go
6 1 (4.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (8.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Google