Blockchain Contracts

Blockchain
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blockchain in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Blockchain over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 494 526 613
Rank change year-on-year +32 +87 -8
Contract jobs citing Blockchain 25 74 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.086% 0.17% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.25% 0.56% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 51 67
10th Percentile - £425 £465
25th Percentile £500 £488 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% -3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £659 £738 £750
90th Percentile £678 £788 £835
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £663
% change year-on-year +11.11% -32.08% +18.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £92.50
Median hourly rate - - £95.00
75th Percentile - - £97.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £95.00
% change year-on-year - - +61.02%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,915 13,252 19,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.91% 30.40% 33.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,331 8,505 13,670
10th Percentile £300 £263 £308
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £650 £660 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.90% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 910 640
10th Percentile £16.46 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.66 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.93 £27.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year +11.46% +26.14% +9.64%

Blockchain
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Blockchain as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Blockchain in the UK

Blockchain
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Blockchain.

Daily rate trend for Blockchain in the UK

Blockchain
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Blockchain over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Blockchain in the UK

Blockchain
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Blockchain.

Hourly rate trend for Blockchain in the UK

Blockchain
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +20 21 £585 -2.50% 297
Work from Home +26 13 £675 +22.73% 184
London -3 12 £638 -1.92% 231
UK excluding London +52 9 £500 +11.11% 65
Midlands +28 5 £500 -9.09% 17
West Midlands - 5 £500 - 2
North of England +26 3 - - 29
Yorkshire +14 2 - - 4
North West +10 1 - - 25
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

Blockchain
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (4.00%) Apache
1 1 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.00%) Ethereum
1 1 (4.00%) Hyperledger
1 1 (4.00%) MetaMask
1 1 (4.00%) Solana
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (4.00%) R3 Corda
1 1 (4.00%) SAP EWM
1 1 (4.00%) SAP GTS
1 1 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (4.00%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 11 (44.00%) AWS
2 5 (20.00%) Azure
3 4 (16.00%) GCP
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.00%) dbt
4 1 (4.00%) GitHub
4 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.00%) Google Docs
4 1 (4.00%) Google Sheets
4 1 (4.00%) Google Workspace
4 1 (4.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.00%) Serverless
4 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.00%) Airbyte
2 1 (4.00%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (4.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Hardhat
General
1 10 (40.00%) Finance
2 8 (32.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (28.00%) Banking
4 6 (24.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Front Office
5 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.00%) Law
5 1 (4.00%) Legal
5 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Architect
2 7 (28.00%) Applications Architect
2 7 (28.00%) Developer
3 5 (20.00%) Blockchain Developer
4 3 (12.00%) Java Developer
5 2 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (4.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Architect
6 1 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Consultant
6 1 (4.00%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Java Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
6 1 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Support Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (32.00%) Smart Contracts
2 3 (12.00%) REST
3 2 (8.00%) Kafka
3 2 (8.00%) Node.js
3 2 (8.00%) React
3 2 (8.00%) web3js
4 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.00%) Django
4 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (4.00%) FastAPI
4 1 (4.00%) Flask
4 1 (4.00%) Great Expectations
4 1 (4.00%) pytest
4 1 (4.00%) RESTful
4 1 (4.00%) SAP TM
4 1 (4.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.00%) Truffle
4 1 (4.00%) Vue
4 1 (4.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Equities
1 7 (28.00%) IoT
1 7 (28.00%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (24.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (52.00%) DevOps
2 9 (36.00%) Migration
3 8 (32.00%) Machine Learning
4 7 (28.00%) Architectural Design
4 7 (28.00%) Microservices
4 7 (28.00%) TDD
5 6 (24.00%) Agile
5 6 (24.00%) Cost Reduction
5 6 (24.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 6 (24.00%) Interface Catalogue
5 6 (24.00%) Project Planning
5 6 (24.00%) Roadmaps
5 6 (24.00%) SOA
5 6 (24.00%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (24.00%) Thought Leadership
6 4 (16.00%) SDLC
7 3 (12.00%) Analytics
7 3 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 2 (8.00%) Data Management
8 2 (8.00%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) Python
2 8 (32.00%) Java
2 8 (32.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (16.00%) DAML
3 4 (16.00%) Solidity
4 3 (12.00%) Go
4 3 (12.00%) SQL
5 2 (8.00%) Rust
6 1 (4.00%) C
6 1 (4.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) Degree
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.00%) PhD
3 1 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Terraform
2 1 (4.00%) Ansible
2 1 (4.00%) Grafana
2 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (4.00%) Citrix
1 1 (4.00%) Google
1 1 (4.00%) Murex
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle
1 1 (4.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (4.00%) SAP
1 1 (4.00%) VMware
1 1 (4.00%) Zscaler