Distributed Ledger Contract Job Trends

Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT, Shared Ledger)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Distributed Ledger skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 665 557 575
Rank change year-on-year -108 +18 +51
Contract jobs citing Distributed Ledger 7 6 7
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.013% 0.018% 0.018%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.18% 0.22% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 6
10th Percentile £429 £1,005 £721
25th Percentile £452 £1,013 £727
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £1,075 £775
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +38.71% +10.71%
75th Percentile £588 £1,138 £863
90th Percentile £775 £1,145 £875
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 - -

All Business Application Skills
UK

Distributed Ledger falls under the Business Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring business application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 3,816 2,778 2,810
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.12% 8.54% 7.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,128 1,573 1,561
10th Percentile £363 £358 £353
25th Percentile £463 £448 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £650 £663 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £537 £548
% change year-on-year -2.23% -1.92% +4.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 54 83
10th Percentile £16.60 £14.76 £24.60
25th Percentile £23.14 £25.25 £35.18
Median hourly rate £40.00 £35.48 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.74% -21.16% -15.62%
75th Percentile £71.91 £62.81 £61.60
90th Percentile £92.00 £74.25 £65.81
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £44.24 £45.00
% change year-on-year -9.58% -1.69% -19.89%

Distributed Ledger
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Distributed Ledger job vacancy trend in the UK

Distributed Ledger
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Distributed Ledger

Distributed Ledger
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Ledger over the 6 months to 2 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Ledger in the UK

Distributed Ledger
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Distributed Ledger

Distributed Ledger
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Ledger within the UK over the 6 months to 2 September 2026. 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
London -69 5 £488 -54.65% 29
England -110 5 £488 -54.65% 33
Work from Home -61 3 £538 -50.00% 19
UK excluding London -104 1 £600 - 18
Scotland - 1 £600 - 8

Distributed Ledger
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 3 (42.86%) Ethereum
2 2 (28.57%) Hyperledger
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) Azure AKS
1 3 (42.86%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Relational Database
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Banking
2 3 (42.86%) Publishing
3 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Java Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Blockchain Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Smart Contracts
2 3 (42.86%) Node.js
2 3 (42.86%) REST
2 3 (42.86%) Spring
2 3 (42.86%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Blockchain
1 4 (57.14%) Onboarding
2 3 (42.86%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
4 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
4 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Integration Patterns
2 5 (71.43%) Microservices
3 4 (57.14%) API Development
4 3 (42.86%) Analytics
4 3 (42.86%) API Design
4 3 (42.86%) Backends for Frontends
4 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
4 3 (42.86%) Contract Management
4 3 (42.86%) Digital Enablement
4 3 (42.86%) Fund Accounting
4 3 (42.86%) High Availability
4 3 (42.86%) Observability
4 3 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
5 2 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (28.57%) Cryptography
5 2 (28.57%) Data Privacy
5 2 (28.57%) DevOps
5 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
5 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) DAML
3 2 (28.57%) Go
3 2 (28.57%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) Rust
3 2 (28.57%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle