Blockchain Contracts in the UK excluding London

Blockchain
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blockchain in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Blockchain over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 385 440
Rank change year-on-year +58 +55 +46
Contract jobs citing Blockchain 9 8 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.070% 0.039% 0.034%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.21% 0.13% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 4
10th Percentile - - £448
25th Percentile - £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £663
Median % change year-on-year - -24.53% +18.99%
75th Percentile - £556 £816
90th Percentile - £568 £956
UK median daily rate £585 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £92.50
Median hourly rate - - £95.00
75th Percentile - - £97.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £95.00
% change year-on-year - - +61.02%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,235 5,974 7,630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.11% 29.17% 32.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,590 3,583 5,127
10th Percentile £208 £210 £220
25th Percentile £363 £375 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £614
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 306 723 433
10th Percentile £16.71 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £19.06 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £30.93 £28.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.53% +29.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £64.88 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.31 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £31.25 £22.49
% change year-on-year +4.00% +38.98% -18.24%

Blockchain
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Blockchain as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Blockchain in the UK excluding London

Blockchain
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Blockchain in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Blockchain in the UK excluding London

Blockchain
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Blockchain in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Blockchain in the UK excluding London

Blockchain
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Midlands +14 5 £500 -9.09% 18
West Midlands - 5 £500 - 6
North of England +18 3 - - 30
Yorkshire - 2 - - 3
North West +12 1 - - 27
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1
Blockchain
UK

Blockchain
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
1 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Architect
2 7 (77.78%) Applications Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Architect
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Solution Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) IoT
2 6 (66.67%) Data Structures
3 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Machine Learning
1 8 (88.89%) Migration
2 7 (77.78%) Architectural Design
2 7 (77.78%) DevOps
2 7 (77.78%) Microservices
3 6 (66.67%) Agile
3 6 (66.67%) Cost Reduction
3 6 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 6 (66.67%) Interface Catalogue
3 6 (66.67%) Project Planning
3 6 (66.67%) Roadmaps
3 6 (66.67%) SOA
3 6 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
3 6 (66.67%) Thought Leadership
4 2 (22.22%) Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (11.11%) Customer Analytics
5 1 (11.11%) Data Migration
5 1 (11.11%) Process Management
5 1 (11.11%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Java
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Grafana
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Citrix
1 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
1 1 (11.11%) VMware
1 1 (11.11%) Zscaler