Smart Contracts Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Smart Contract
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Smart Contracts skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Smart Contracts 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.044% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.20% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
UK median daily rate £525 £750 £725
% change year-on-year -30.00% +3.45% +1.75%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 488 451 384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 21.34% 28.45% 20.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 273 262
10th Percentile £320 £358 £357
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% +3.79% -0.84%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £573
90th Percentile £638 £600 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £52.50 £52.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% - +3.03%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £36.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +23.81% -14.77% -1.83%

Smart Contracts
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Smart Contracts relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Smart Contracts job vacancy trend in Scotland

Smart Contracts
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
Edinburgh - 1 £600 - 1
Smart Contracts
UK

Smart Contracts
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (100.00%) Ethereum
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Blockchain
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) DAML
1 1 (100.00%) Java