Smart Contracts Contracts in the UK excluding London

Smart Contract
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Smart Contracts skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Smart Contracts over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 397 439
Rank change year-on-year +45 +42 +71
Contract jobs citing Smart Contracts 1 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.007% 0.019% 0.009%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.039% 0.12% 0.049%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £435 -
25th Percentile £575 £450 £950
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £1,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -50.00% +42.17%
75th Percentile £725 £550 £1,050
90th Percentile - £565 -
UK median daily rate £675 £688 £738
% change year-on-year -1.82% -6.78% +5.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £62.00 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £62.00 -
% change year-on-year +20.97% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,533 3,449 4,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.65% 16.24% 17.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,747 2,213 3,062
10th Percentile £320 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £559 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £514 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.37% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 241 90
10th Percentile £33.27 £22.75 £22.47
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £58.00 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.76% -10.08% +17.27%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £80.41 £74.44 £78.12
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +28.40%

Smart Contracts
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Smart Contracts in the UK excluding London

Smart Contracts
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Smart Contracts in the UK excluding London

Smart Contracts
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 Smart Contracts within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
South East +46 1 £650 - 8
Smart Contracts
UK

Smart Contracts
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%) Hyperledger
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Hyperledger Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Blockchain
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case