Blockchain Contract Job Trends 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 6 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 398 353 407
Rank change year-on-year -45 +54 +90
Contract jobs citing Blockchain 3 9 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.018% 0.054% 0.024%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.052% 0.18% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile £527 £478 -
25th Percentile £545 £500 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £400
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +75.00% -23.81%
75th Percentile £663 - £425
90th Percentile £700 - -
UK median daily rate £526 £630 £598
% change year-on-year -16.49% +5.35% -0.33%

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 5,794 4,928 6,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.38% 29.46% 31.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,526 2,707 4,182
10th Percentile £208 £203 £213
25th Percentile £360 £363 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 490 265 382
10th Percentile £13.08 £15.62 £16.54
25th Percentile £16.95 £22.22 £21.05
Median hourly rate £26.25 £42.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -38.24% -7.97% +100.78%
75th Percentile £52.50 £70.00 £66.14
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £78.32
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.50% -10.11% +64.94%

Blockchain
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Blockchain job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Blockchain
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Blockchain.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Blockchain

Blockchain
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Blockchain in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Blockchain in the UK excluding London

Blockchain
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Blockchain.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Blockchain

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 6 November 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
Yorkshire -33 2 £564 -19.48% 3
North of England -40 2 £564 -19.48% 11
South East - 1 £650 - 95
Blockchain
UK

Blockchain
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (33.33%) Hyperledger
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
General
1 2 (66.67%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Hyperledger Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Smart Contracts
2 2 (66.67%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) AI
1 2 (66.67%) Anti-Money Laundering
1 2 (66.67%) Application Security
1 2 (66.67%) Cryptography
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Data Security
1 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
1 2 (66.67%) Federated Learning
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) KYC
1 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
1 2 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Regulatory Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Risk Assessment
1 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
1 2 (66.67%) SDLC
1 2 (66.67%) Software Delivery
1 2 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Rust
1 2 (66.67%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CCSK
1 2 (66.67%) CEH
1 2 (66.67%) CISA
1 2 (66.67%) CISM
1 2 (66.67%) CISSP
1 2 (66.67%) OSCP
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
1 2 (66.67%) PCI DSS
1 2 (66.67%) SOC 2