Smart Contracts Contracts in London

Smart Contract
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Smart Contracts skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Smart Contracts over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 385 476
Rank change year-on-year +43 +91 +84
Contract jobs citing Smart Contracts 11 6 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.088% 0.034% 0.063%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.34% 0.13% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 12
10th Percentile £585 £588 £529
25th Percentile £597 £625 £628
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £700 £713
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -1.75% +14.00%
75th Percentile £883 £775 £800
90th Percentile £998 £781 £834
England median daily rate £675 £650 £725
% change year-on-year +3.85% -10.34% +16.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

Smart Contracts falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,271 4,464 7,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.07% 25.04% 27.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,298 3,349 5,511
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £725 £700 £730
90th Percentile £838 £825 £813
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 26 40
10th Percentile £33.25 £16.25 £30.68
25th Percentile £36.06 £23.90 £37.84
Median hourly rate £52.50 £37.17 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.24% -43.68% +35.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £68.50 £76.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Smart Contracts
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Smart Contracts in London

Smart Contracts
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Smart Contracts in London.

Daily rate trend for Smart Contracts in London

Smart Contracts
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Smart Contracts in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Smart Contracts in London

Smart Contracts
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 Smart Contracts within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +6 3 £675 -12.90% 1
Smart Contracts
England

Smart Contracts
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 (9.09%) Ethereum
1 1 (9.09%) Hyperledger
1 1 (9.09%) MetaMask
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Azure
3 3 (27.27%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Hardhat
General
1 10 (90.91%) Finance
2 8 (72.73%) Banking
3 7 (63.64%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (54.55%) Investment Banking
5 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Developer
2 5 (45.45%) Blockchain Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Java Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Architect
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Blockchain Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Java Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Product Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior
5 1 (9.09%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
2 1 (9.09%) React
2 1 (9.09%) RESTful
2 1 (9.09%) Truffle
2 1 (9.09%) Vue
2 1 (9.09%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) Blockchain
2 7 (63.64%) Equities
2 7 (63.64%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) TDD
2 5 (45.45%) SDLC
3 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
4 2 (18.18%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (9.09%) Cryptography
5 1 (9.09%) Front End Development
5 1 (9.09%) Low Latency
5 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
5 1 (9.09%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (9.09%) Secure Coding
5 1 (9.09%) Software Delivery
5 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
5 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (9.09%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (9.09%) Threat Modelling
5 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Python
2 8 (72.73%) Java
3 7 (63.64%) JavaScript
4 4 (36.36%) DAML
4 4 (36.36%) Solidity
5 2 (18.18%) C++
5 2 (18.18%) Rust
6 1 (9.09%) C
6 1 (9.09%) Go
6 1 (9.09%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) PhD
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Alibaba
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle