Smart Contracts Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Smart Contract
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Smart Contracts skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 391 - 418
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Smart Contracts 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.018% - 0.005%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.093% - 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £527 - -
25th Percentile £545 - £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £545
75th Percentile £663 - £568
90th Percentile £700 - -
UK median daily rate £624 £673 £500
% change year-on-year -7.21% +34.50% -33.33%

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 3,209 2,886 3,786
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.27% 17.21% 18.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,123 1,763 2,674
10th Percentile £316 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £684
UK median daily rate £505 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -7.34% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 97 147
10th Percentile £30.95 £25.40 £45.37
25th Percentile £43.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.25 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £66.38 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £72.40 £77.70
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.53
% change year-on-year -16.92% +17.05% -14.57%

Smart Contracts
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Smart Contracts job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Smart Contracts
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Smart Contracts
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Smart Contracts in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 31 October 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 - 2 £564 - 1
North of England - 2 £564 - 2
South East - 1 £650 - 10
Smart Contracts
UK

Smart Contracts
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 2 (66.67%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Blockchain
2 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