Distributed Ledger Contracts in the UK excluding London

Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT, Shared Ledger)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Distributed Ledger skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Ledger over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 - 461
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Ledger 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.008% - 0.004%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.11% - 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £725
75th Percentile - - £738
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £850 £725 £725
% change year-on-year +17.24% - +38.10%

All Business Application Skills
UK excluding London

Distributed Ledger falls under the Business Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring business application skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 896 1,159 1,349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.02% 5.58% 5.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 528 736 928
10th Percentile £363 £300 £325
25th Percentile £462 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £529
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -0.66% +0.67%
75th Percentile £630 £630 £657
90th Percentile £697 £725 £727
UK median daily rate £565 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +2.73% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 94 30
10th Percentile £22.33 £14.71 £22.56
25th Percentile £52.81 £21.63 £40.81
Median hourly rate £60.00 £43.75 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.14% -10.71% +108.29%
75th Percentile £81.25 £57.45 £69.69
90th Percentile £86.00 £61.60 £85.13
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £43.75 £47.50
% change year-on-year +37.14% -7.89% +35.71%

Distributed Ledger
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Ledger in the UK excluding London

Distributed Ledger
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Ledger in the UK excluding London

Distributed Ledger
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 Distributed Ledger within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
North West - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - - 1
Distributed Ledger
UK

Distributed Ledger
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Solution Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Blockchain
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Fraud Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) VMware