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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 557 545 612
Rank change year-on-year -12 +67 +218
Contract jobs citing Distributed Ledger 6 6 19
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.018% 0.016% 0.040%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.20% 0.22% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 16
10th Percentile £800 £721 -
25th Percentile £875 £727 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,050 £775 £750
Median % change year-on-year +35.48% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £1,125 £863 £856
90th Percentile £1,140 £875 £875
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

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 2,979 2,679 3,734
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.70% 7.33% 7.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,689 1,435 2,066
10th Percentile £357 £363 £375
25th Percentile £450 £459 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £660 £667 £668
90th Percentile £750 £757 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 66 86
10th Percentile £14.58 £27.70 £30.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £35.00 £49.00
Median hourly rate £40.49 £40.91 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -1.03% -27.58% +25.53%
75th Percentile £77.50 £61.60 £80.00
90th Percentile £90.09 £79.75 £90.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.86 £40.33 £56.49
% change year-on-year +3.79% -28.62% +41.23%

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 November 2025.

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 3 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 November 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
London +6 4 £1,050 +35.48% 4
England -12 4 £1,050 +35.48% 5
Work from Home +9 3 £1,075 +26.47% 4

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 2 (33.33%) Apache Spark
1 2 (33.33%) Ethereum
1 2 (33.33%) Hyperledger
2 1 (16.67%) Solana
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Big Data
1 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Blockchain Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Enterprise Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Product Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Rust Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Blockchain
2 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Asset Management
1 4 (66.67%) Microservices
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) AI
3 2 (33.33%) API Management
3 2 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Investment Management
3 2 (33.33%) IT Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) DAML
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) R
3 1 (16.67%) Kotlin
3 1 (16.67%) Rust
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Bloomberg
1 2 (33.33%) Databricks
1 2 (33.33%) Refinitiv