Web3 Contract Job Trends in London

Web3
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Web3 in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Web3 over the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 377 378 398
Rank change year-on-year +1 +20 +141
Contract jobs citing Web3 5 5 5
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.035% 0.033% 0.027%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.089% 0.097% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £296 £625 -
25th Percentile £315 £644 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £750 £500
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +50.00% -12.28%
75th Percentile £475 £888 £510
90th Percentile - £925 -
England median daily rate £450 £750 £450
% change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% -23.73%

All Generic Skills
London

Web3 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 5,593 5,154 6,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.89% 34.29% 33.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,585 3,295 4,513
10th Percentile £343 £325 £321
25th Percentile £430 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £725
90th Percentile £800 £850 £825
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 66 107
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.87
25th Percentile £20.00 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £26.11 £34.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.32% +15.00% -11.30%
75th Percentile £45.95 £55.94 £49.48
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £65.76
England median hourly rate £29.00 £37.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -21.62% -15.60% +25.25%

Web3
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Web3 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Web3 job vacancy trend in London

Web3
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Web3.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Web3

Web3
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web3 in London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Web3 in London

Web3
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Datadog
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Hardhat
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Blockchain Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Smart Contracts
1 4 (80.00%) web3js
2 3 (60.00%) React Native
3 2 (40.00%) Next.js
4 1 (20.00%) .NET
4 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (20.00%) Truffle
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Blockchain
2 3 (60.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Android
1 3 (60.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) API Integration
2 3 (60.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (60.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (60.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) C
3 1 (20.00%) C++
3 1 (20.00%) Go
3 1 (20.00%) Perl
3 1 (20.00%) Rust
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) KVM
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Foundry
1 1 (20.00%) VMware