Blockchain Contract Job Trends

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 24 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 543 512 542
Rank change year-on-year -31 +30 +88
Contract jobs citing Blockchain 43 41 48
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.12% 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.33% 0.38% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 29 29
10th Percentile £325 £456 £435
25th Percentile £447 £585 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £650 £598
Median % change year-on-year -26.38% +8.70% +2.66%
75th Percentile £691 £725 £750
90th Percentile £750 £829 £810
UK excluding London median daily rate £527 £700 £363
% change year-on-year -24.68% +93.10% -29.27%

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 12,900 10,871 13,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.87% 32.02% 31.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,070 6,494 9,056
10th Percentile £275 £269 £263
25th Percentile £406 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.25% -3.09% -
75th Percentile £626 £660 £666
90th Percentile £738 £775 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 641 337 501
10th Percentile £13.93 £17.40 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.05 £22.72 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £33.54 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.50% -21.08% +21.43%
75th Percentile £60.61 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.75 £76.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -16.28% -27.78% +51.41%

Blockchain
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Blockchain relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Blockchain job vacancy trend in the UK

Blockchain
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Blockchain.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Blockchain

Blockchain
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Blockchain over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Blockchain in the UK

Blockchain
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Blockchain.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Blockchain

Blockchain
Top 9 Contract Job 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 24 December 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 -29 34 £493 -29.10% 146
London -12 28 £479 -24.05% 77
Work from Home +13 22 £469 -14.73% 49
UK excluding London -41 4 £527 -24.68% 78
Yorkshire -39 2 £564 -19.48% 9
North of England -52 2 £564 -19.48% 16
East Midlands - 1 - - 7
Midlands - 1 - - 14
South East - 1 £503 - 28

Blockchain
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 13 (30.23%) Ethereum
1 13 (30.23%) Hyperledger
2 1 (2.33%) Confluence
2 1 (2.33%) Solana
Business Applications
1 6 (13.95%) Distributed Ledger
2 5 (11.63%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.93%) AWS
2 8 (18.60%) GCP
3 5 (11.63%) Azure
4 3 (6.98%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 3 (6.98%) Stackdriver
5 1 (2.33%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) Firewall
1 1 (2.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.65%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (11.63%) Hardhat
2 3 (6.98%) GitLab
2 3 (6.98%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.65%) Git
4 1 (2.33%) JIRA
General
1 24 (55.81%) Finance
2 14 (32.56%) Social Skills
3 8 (18.60%) Banking
4 7 (16.28%) Legal
5 5 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.98%) Back Office
6 3 (6.98%) Investment Banking
6 3 (6.98%) Marketing
7 1 (2.33%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.33%) iGaming
7 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (18.60%) Developer
2 7 (16.28%) Architect
3 6 (13.95%) Blockchain Architect
4 5 (11.63%) Software Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Blockchain Developer
6 3 (6.98%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) GCP DevOps
6 3 (6.98%) GCP DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) GCP Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Product Manager
7 2 (4.65%) Blockchain Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Consultant
7 2 (4.65%) Engineering Manager
7 2 (4.65%) Java Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Rust Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Senior
7 2 (4.65%) Subject Matter Expert
8 1 (2.33%) Lead
8 1 (2.33%) Product Designer
8 1 (2.33%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (55.81%) Smart Contracts
2 11 (25.58%) web3js
3 5 (11.63%) Next.js
3 5 (11.63%) REST
4 4 (9.30%) React Native
4 4 (9.30%) Truffle
5 3 (6.98%) React
6 2 (4.65%) Flash
7 1 (2.33%) .NET
7 1 (2.33%) CSS
7 1 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (2.33%) GraphQL
7 1 (2.33%) HTML
7 1 (2.33%) Node.js
7 1 (2.33%) Quarkus
7 1 (2.33%) Redux
7 1 (2.33%) Spring
7 1 (2.33%) Spring Boot
7 1 (2.33%) ZK
7 1 (2.33%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.93%) Web3
2 6 (13.95%) Onboarding
3 4 (9.30%) Mobile App
3 4 (9.30%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (6.98%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.65%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.33%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.33%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.33%) Low-Code
6 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.30%) Android
1 4 (9.30%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (25.58%) CI/CD
2 10 (23.26%) AI
3 9 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (18.60%) Anti-Money Laundering
4 8 (18.60%) Data Privacy
4 8 (18.60%) KYC
5 7 (16.28%) DevOps
5 7 (16.28%) Digital Identity
5 7 (16.28%) Roadmaps
5 7 (16.28%) SDLC
5 7 (16.28%) Software Engineering
6 6 (13.95%) Product Roadmap
6 6 (13.95%) Requirements Gathering
6 6 (13.95%) Use Case
7 5 (11.63%) Computer Science
7 5 (11.63%) Cryptography
7 5 (11.63%) DevSecOps
7 5 (11.63%) Incident Response
7 5 (11.63%) Open Source
8 4 (9.30%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (25.58%) Java
2 9 (20.93%) Solidity
3 8 (18.60%) JavaScript
3 8 (18.60%) Python
4 7 (16.28%) TypeScript
5 6 (13.95%) Rust
6 5 (11.63%) Bash
7 3 (6.98%) DAML
8 1 (2.33%) C
8 1 (2.33%) C++
8 1 (2.33%) Go
8 1 (2.33%) Kotlin
8 1 (2.33%) Perl
8 1 (2.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (13.95%) Degree
2 4 (9.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.65%) CCIP
3 2 (4.65%) CCSK
3 2 (4.65%) CEH
3 2 (4.65%) CISA
3 2 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (4.65%) CISM
3 2 (4.65%) CISSP
3 2 (4.65%) Master's Degree
3 2 (4.65%) OSCP
4 1 (2.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.65%) GDPR
2 2 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.65%) NIST
2 2 (4.65%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.65%) QA
2 2 (4.65%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.33%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 8 (18.60%) Docker
2 2 (4.65%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.33%) KVM
3 1 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (13.95%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.30%) Grafana
2 4 (9.30%) Prometheus
2 4 (9.30%) Terraform
3 3 (6.98%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (6.98%) Google
2 2 (4.65%) Foundry
2 2 (4.65%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.33%) VMware