DeFi Contracts in the UK excluding London

Decentralised Finance (DeFi)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for DeFi skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DeFi over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 392 - 504
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DeFi 1 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.005% - 0.026%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.006% - 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £303
25th Percentile £525 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £650
75th Percentile £575 - £925
90th Percentile - - £948
UK median daily rate £725 £750 £675
% change year-on-year -3.33% +11.11% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

DeFi is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,509 21,592 27,554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.76% 89.53% 88.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,486 14,972 19,224
10th Percentile £248 £252 £231
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,026 1,320 1,373
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.99 £14.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £45.20
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.60 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

DeFi
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for DeFi in the UK excluding London

DeFi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for DeFi in the UK excluding London

DeFi
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 DeFi within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
East Midlands - 1 £550 -
Midlands - 1 £550 -
DeFi
UK

DeFi
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Ethereum
1 1 (100.00%) MetaMask
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Blockchain Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Blockchain Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Smart Contracts
1 1 (100.00%) Truffle
1 1 (100.00%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Blockchain
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Solidity