Digital Currency Contracts

Digital Currency (Digital/Electronic Money)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Digital Currency in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Digital Currency over the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 549 562 660
Rank change year-on-year +13 +98 +195
Contract jobs citing Digital Currency 2 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.006% 0.005% 0.010%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.017% 0.017% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £377
25th Percentile £650 - £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £476
Median % change year-on-year - - -47.14%
75th Percentile £750 - £524
90th Percentile - - £539
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Generic Skills
UK

Digital Currency 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 11,653 11,762 16,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.16% 30.36% 32.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,131 7,537 11,621
10th Percentile £305 £300 £300
25th Percentile £406 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £825 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 594 407
10th Percentile £15.02 £12.32 £16.58
25th Percentile £18.87 £18.27 £20.63
Median hourly rate £29.33 £45.00 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year -34.82% +11.59% +52.17%
75th Percentile £57.50 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £78.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.33 £45.00 £40.59
% change year-on-year -34.82% +10.86% +88.79%

Digital Currency
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Currency in the UK

Digital Currency
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Digital Currency in the UK

Digital Currency
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Currency within the UK over the 6 months to 17 August 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 +23 2 £700 - 20
London +19 1 £700 - 16
South West - 1 - - 2
UK excluding London - 1 - - 4

Digital Currency
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Legal
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Network Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Data Extraction
1 1 (50.00%) Data Interpretation
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) Fintech
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft