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 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 548 554 622
Rank change year-on-year +6 +68 +225
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Distributed Ledger 6 7 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.018% 0.041%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.22% 0.25% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 19
10th Percentile £1,005 £721 £600
25th Percentile £1,013 £727 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,075 £775 £700
Median % change year-on-year +38.71% +10.71% +27.27%
75th Percentile £1,138 £863 £738
90th Percentile £1,145 £875 £800
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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 2,790 2,829 3,674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.51% 7.28% 7.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,596 1,585 2,052
10th Percentile £359 £356 £355
25th Percentile £447 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £661 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 82 73
10th Percentile £14.76 £25.10 £22.23
25th Percentile £25.25 £35.36 £46.25
Median hourly rate £35.48 £45.00 £53.67
Median % change year-on-year -21.16% -16.15% +19.26%
75th Percentile £62.81 £61.60 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.25 £65.90 £87.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.24 £45.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -1.69% -20.34% +67.39%

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
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
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 6 DemandTrendContract 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 25 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Work from Home +26 4 £1,075 +26.47% 2
England +8 4 £1,075 +38.71% 13
London +27 3 £1,075 +38.71% 12
North West - 1 - -
UK excluding London - 1 - - 3
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 (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 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Snowflake
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Big Data
1 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) 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%) AWS Architect
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Solution Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Rust Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Blockchain
2 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) Private Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Microservices
2 4 (66.67%) Asset Management
3 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (50.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) API Management
4 2 (33.33%) Business Strategy
4 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (33.33%) ETL
4 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
4 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (33.33%) Investment Management
4 2 (33.33%) IT Strategy
4 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 2 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
5 1 (16.67%) Fraud Detection
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) DAML
2 2 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) R
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Kotlin
3 1 (16.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Bloomberg
1 2 (33.33%) Databricks
1 2 (33.33%) Refinitiv
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) VMware