Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CBDC in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CBDC over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 589 717 -
Rank change year-on-year +128 - -
Contract jobs citing CBDC 9 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.003% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.068% 0.010% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £713 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - -
75th Percentile £738 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Generic Skills
UK

CBDC is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,143 19,914 29,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.35% 33.30% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,422 13,704 20,462
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £653
90th Percentile £788 £800 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 903 647 727
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.11
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £16.88
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%

CBDC
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CBDC in the UK

CBDC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for CBDC in the UK

CBDC
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CBDC within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +135 9 £725 -
London +107 8 £725 -
Work from Home - 2 - -

CBDC
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 3 (33.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
1 3 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Internet
2 1 (11.11%) DHCP
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (22.22%) MySQL
1 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (11.11%) CouchDB
2 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (22.22%) Darcs
2 2 (22.22%) Git
2 2 (22.22%) Mercurial
3 1 (11.11%) CircleCI
3 1 (11.11%) Jaeger
3 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 1 (11.11%) Travis CI
General
1 7 (77.78%) Finance
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Public Sector
3 3 (33.33%) Banking
4 2 (22.22%) Financial Institution
4 2 (22.22%) Retail
5 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (11.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Architect
1 6 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Backend Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Blockchain Architect
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (22.22%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
2 1 (11.11%) CSS
2 1 (11.11%) HTML
2 1 (11.11%) React
2 1 (11.11%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Blockchain
1 6 (66.67%) Web3
2 3 (33.33%) IoT
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Currency
3 1 (11.11%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) DeFi
1 6 (66.67%) Fintech
2 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) Mentoring
2 5 (55.56%) Translating Business Requirements
3 4 (44.44%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
4 3 (33.33%) API Development
4 3 (33.33%) Cryptography
4 3 (33.33%) Data Science
4 3 (33.33%) Kanban
4 3 (33.33%) Mathematics
4 3 (33.33%) Regtech
4 3 (33.33%) Scrum
5 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
5 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
6 1 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) C
2 2 (22.22%) C#
2 2 (22.22%) C++
2 2 (22.22%) Go
2 2 (22.22%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) Rust
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) Groovy
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) SC Cleared
1 8 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) Degree
3 3 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (11.11%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) ISO 20022
2 1 (11.11%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Ansible
1 2 (22.22%) Grafana
1 2 (22.22%) Kibana
1 2 (22.22%) logstash
1 2 (22.22%) Progress Chef
1 2 (22.22%) Prometheus
1 2 (22.22%) Puppet
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Google
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 2 (22.22%) Splunk