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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 330 336
Rank change year-on-year -37 +6 +82
Contract jobs citing Blockchain 24 23 55
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.16% 0.17% 0.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.42% 0.49% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 15 36
10th Percentile £281 £585 £495
25th Percentile £425 £590 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £610 £700
Median % change year-on-year -23.11% -12.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £700 £710 £750
90th Percentile £812 £725 £775
England median daily rate £503 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -19.60% -3.85% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £85.00 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £90.00 - -

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 5,669 4,655 6,099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.18% 34.56% 32.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,688 2,951 4,294
10th Percentile £350 £319 £300
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £800 £844 £813
England median daily rate £510 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -6.42% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 60 179
10th Percentile £17.50 £21.16 £16.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £25.48 £19.73
Median hourly rate £28.94 £39.02 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.83% +34.55% -15.72%
75th Percentile £53.59 £61.50 £48.29
90th Percentile £72.50 £81.00 £66.80
England median hourly rate £32.75 £37.00 £32.12
% change year-on-year -11.49% +15.21% +42.83%

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 16 February 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 16 February 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 - 3 £277 - 13
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 12 (50.00%) Ethereum
2 9 (37.50%) Hyperledger
3 1 (4.17%) Solana
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (8.33%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.50%) GCP
1 3 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 3 (12.50%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
1 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) GitLab
1 3 (12.50%) Hardhat
1 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.33%) Git
2 2 (8.33%) JIRA
2 2 (8.33%) JUnit
General
1 16 (66.67%) Finance
2 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
3 5 (20.83%) Legal
4 3 (12.50%) Banking
5 2 (8.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Developer
2 5 (20.83%) Blockchain Developer
3 3 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) GCP DevOps
3 3 (12.50%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) GCP Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Product Manager
3 3 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Blockchain Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Engineering Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Subject Matter Expert
5 1 (4.17%) Backend Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Lead
5 1 (4.17%) Product Designer
5 1 (4.17%) Rust Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (45.83%) Smart Contracts
2 6 (25.00%) web3js
3 3 (12.50%) React Native
3 3 (12.50%) Truffle
4 2 (8.33%) AngularJS
4 2 (8.33%) gRPC
4 2 (8.33%) J2EE
4 2 (8.33%) Kafka
4 2 (8.33%) Next.js
4 2 (8.33%) REST
4 2 (8.33%) RESTful
4 2 (8.33%) Spring
4 2 (8.33%) Spring Batch
4 2 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (12.50%) Mobile App
1 3 (12.50%) Web3
2 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) Low-Code
3 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Android
1 4 (16.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 6 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 5 (20.83%) Product Roadmap
4 4 (16.67%) Agile
4 4 (16.67%) API Integration
4 4 (16.67%) Code Quality
4 4 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (16.67%) Data Privacy
4 4 (16.67%) Fintech
4 4 (16.67%) Product Vision
4 4 (16.67%) Use Case
4 4 (16.67%) User Experience
5 3 (12.50%) AI
5 3 (12.50%) Analytics
5 3 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 3 (12.50%) Incident Response
5 3 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) Solidity
2 5 (20.83%) Java
2 5 (20.83%) TypeScript
3 3 (12.50%) Bash
3 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 3 (12.50%) Python
4 1 (4.17%) Kotlin
4 1 (4.17%) Rust
4 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Degree
2 3 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (8.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 2 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Docker
2 2 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Kubernetes
2 3 (12.50%) Ansible
2 3 (12.50%) Grafana
2 3 (12.50%) Prometheus
2 3 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Google
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft