Ethereum Contracts

Ethereum
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Ethereum skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Ethereum over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 594 695 786
Rank change year-on-year +101 +91 -121
Contract jobs citing Ethereum 4 24 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.040% 0.071%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.097% 0.36% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 18 59
10th Percentile £533 £551 £455
25th Percentile £544 £625 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +23.81%
75th Percentile £775 £750 £750
90th Percentile - £831 £900
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £1,000 £888
% change year-on-year -45.00% +12.68% -

All Application Platform Skills
UK

Ethereum is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,145 6,581 11,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.57% 11.00% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,849 4,620 7,600
10th Percentile £250 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% +9.47%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 150 212
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.42 £18.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.52 £42.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.26% +93.18% -2.22%
75th Percentile £46.18 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £79.19 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.75 £26.24 £18.75
% change year-on-year -9.49% +39.95% -6.25%

Ethereum
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Ethereum in the UK

Ethereum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Ethereum in the UK

Ethereum
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ethereum over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ethereum in the UK

Ethereum
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 Ethereum within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +109 4 £650 -7.14% 16
London +82 3 £750 +7.14% 14
Work from Home +118 2 £550 -21.43% 11
UK excluding London +64 1 £550 -45.00% 1
East Midlands - 1 £550 -
Midlands - 1 £550 -

Ethereum
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 3 (75.00%) Hyperledger
2 1 (25.00%) MetaMask
2 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) R3 Corda
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Blockchain Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Blockchain Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Blockchain Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Smart Contracts
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) CSS3
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) jQuery
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (25.00%) Truffle
2 1 (25.00%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Blockchain
2 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (25.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Low Latency
3 1 (25.00%) Backtesting
3 1 (25.00%) Cryptocurrency
3 1 (25.00%) DeFi
3 1 (25.00%) High-Frequency Trading
3 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Change
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) DAML
1 2 (50.00%) Solidity
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
2 1 (25.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Master's Degree