Distributed Ledger Contracts

Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT, Shared Ledger)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Distributed Ledger skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Ledger over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 534 566 666
Rank change year-on-year +32 +100 +202
Contract jobs citing Distributed Ledger 5 24 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.055% 0.034%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.19% 0.76% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 17 16
10th Percentile - £670 £650
25th Percentile £1,000 £700 £696
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,050 £725 £713
Median % change year-on-year +44.83% +1.75% -5.00%
75th Percentile £1,100 £775 £750
90th Percentile - £875 £863
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £725

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 2,585 3,161 3,917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.25% 7.27% 7.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,462 1,856 2,214
10th Percentile £387 £366 £363
25th Percentile £456 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £665 £675 £678
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 113 58
10th Percentile £20.00 £15.74 £22.82
25th Percentile £30.25 £25.00 £39.56
Median hourly rate £57.50 £40.33 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.59% -18.54% +36.89%
75th Percentile £72.50 £57.50 £61.56
90th Percentile £86.00 £65.00 £72.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £40.00 £53.67
% change year-on-year +50.00% -25.46% +59.02%

Distributed Ledger
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Ledger in the UK

Distributed Ledger
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Ledger in the UK

Distributed Ledger
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Distributed Ledger.

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Ledger in the UK

Distributed Ledger
Top 6 Contract 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 3 July 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 +37 3 £1,050 +44.83% 63
Work from Home +26 3 £1,050 +50.00% 36
London +25 2 £1,050 +44.83% 50
North West - 1 - -
UK excluding London - 1 - - 17
North of England - 1 - -

Distributed Ledger
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 2 (40.00%) Ethereum
1 2 (40.00%) Hyperledger
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
2 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Big Data
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Blockchain Architect
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Architect
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Solution Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Java Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Enterprise Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Blockchain
2 1 (20.00%) DTCC
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Asset Management
3 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
4 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Fraud Detection
4 1 (20.00%) GitOps
4 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Investment Management
4 1 (20.00%) IT Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Lean Software Development
4 1 (20.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) DAML
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) R
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Bloomberg
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (20.00%) Refinitiv
1 1 (20.00%) VMware