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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 335 346
Rank change year-on-year -69 +11 +55
Contract jobs citing Blockchain 16 12 53
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.085% 0.098% 0.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.24% 0.27% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 34
10th Percentile £440 £561 £466
25th Percentile £521 £631 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £648 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.27% -0.31% +2.97%
75th Percentile £763 £675 £738
90th Percentile £800 £684 £768
England median daily rate £505 £643 £625
% change year-on-year -21.43% +2.84% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £85.00 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £90.00 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -
75th Percentile £95.00 £87.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £90.00 £75.00 -
% change year-on-year +20.00% - -

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 6,753 4,457 5,883
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.93% 36.40% 33.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,295 2,971 4,140
10th Percentile £360 £333 £315
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £725
90th Percentile £800 £838 £850
England median daily rate £525 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -0.18% -4.38% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 88 146
10th Percentile £19.03 £15.84 £15.46
25th Percentile £23.08 £22.50 £19.40
Median hourly rate £35.25 £33.70 £27.42
Median % change year-on-year +4.61% +22.88% -21.66%
75th Percentile £62.06 £49.56 £50.63
90th Percentile £88.75 £78.88 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £33.91 £36.27
% change year-on-year +29.64% -6.51% +61.32%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 -18 1 £92 -86.39% 7
East London - 1 £432 -
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 (75.00%) Ethereum
2 7 (43.75%) Hyperledger
3 1 (6.25%) CMS
3 1 (6.25%) Solana
Business Applications
1 6 (37.50%) R3 Corda
2 5 (31.25%) Quorum
3 4 (25.00%) Ripple
4 1 (6.25%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) AWS
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 2 (12.50%) RDBMS
1 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
1 2 (12.50%) JUnit
2 1 (6.25%) Hardhat
General
1 10 (62.50%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Banking
3 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Financial Institution
5 1 (6.25%) Legal
5 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Developer
2 6 (37.50%) Blockchain Developer
2 6 (37.50%) Senior
3 5 (31.25%) Senior Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Lead
4 2 (12.50%) Lead Software Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Backend Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Blockchain Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Content Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Digital Content Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Digital Director
5 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Monitoring Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Backend Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Content Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (56.25%) Smart Contracts
2 6 (37.50%) REST
2 6 (37.50%) RESTful
2 6 (37.50%) Spring
2 6 (37.50%) Spring Boot
3 5 (31.25%) Node.js
4 4 (25.00%) AngularJS
5 3 (18.75%) web3js
6 2 (12.50%) gRPC
6 2 (12.50%) J2EE
6 2 (12.50%) Kafka
6 2 (12.50%) React
6 2 (12.50%) Spring Batch
7 1 (6.25%) ethers.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 6 (37.50%) Cloud Native
3 3 (18.75%) Web3
4 2 (12.50%) Derivative
4 2 (12.50%) OTC Derivatives
5 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
5 1 (6.25%) Clustering
5 1 (6.25%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Microservices
2 7 (43.75%) Event-Driven
3 6 (37.50%) Software Engineering
4 5 (31.25%) Agile
5 4 (25.00%) AI
5 4 (25.00%) Code Quality
5 4 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 4 (25.00%) Scrum
6 3 (18.75%) Backlog Management
6 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
6 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (18.75%) Portfolio Management
6 3 (18.75%) Prototyping
7 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
7 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 2 (12.50%) OOP
7 2 (12.50%) Physics
7 2 (12.50%) Unit Testing
7 2 (12.50%) User Experience
7 2 (12.50%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) Java
2 7 (43.75%) Solidity
3 6 (37.50%) TypeScript
4 3 (18.75%) C#
5 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 2 (12.50%) Python
5 2 (12.50%) SQL
6 1 (6.25%) DAML
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Google