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 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 677 547 560
Rank change year-on-year -130 +13 +81
Contract jobs citing Distributed Ledger 6 6 7
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.011% 0.018% 0.019%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.16% 0.21% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 6
10th Percentile £531 £1,005 £721
25th Percentile £563 £1,013 £727
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £1,075 £775
Median % change year-on-year -37.21% +38.71% +11.51%
75th Percentile £788 £1,138 £863
90th Percentile £875 £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 3,863 2,874 2,762
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.04% 8.75% 7.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,140 1,639 1,470
10th Percentile £360 £360 £360
25th Percentile £463 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £652 £673 £675
90th Percentile £755 £761 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 48 75
10th Percentile £15.00 £12.95 £24.70
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.23 £35.36
Median hourly rate £37.87 £32.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.51% -27.78% -18.18%
75th Percentile £71.91 £60.63 £61.60
90th Percentile £91.60 £75.75 £65.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.68 £41.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -8.09% -8.89% -20.34%

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 30 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 30 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 -83 4 £775 -27.91% 34
England -124 4 £775 -27.91% 40
Work from Home -74 2 £538 -50.00% 18
UK excluding London -101 1 £600 - 19
Scotland - 1 £600 - 7

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 5 (83.33%) Ethereum
2 2 (33.33%) Hyperledger
3 1 (16.67%) Solana
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) GCP
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) AWS
General
1 4 (66.67%) Banking
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Blockchain Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Blockchain Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Developer - Fintech
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Blockchain
2 4 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
5 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 3 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
1 3 (50.00%) Microservices
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Anti-Money Laundering
2 2 (33.33%) API Development
2 2 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Cryptography
2 2 (33.33%) Data Privacy
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven Programming
2 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (33.33%) Key Management
2 2 (33.33%) KYC
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) AI
3 1 (16.67%) Fintech
3 1 (16.67%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) DAML
3 2 (33.33%) Go
3 2 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) Rust
3 2 (33.33%) Solidity
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes