Ethereum Contract Job Trends

Ethereum
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Ethereum skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 566 542 612
Rank change year-on-year -24 +70 +126
Contract jobs citing Ethereum 8 8 10
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.023% 0.022% 0.021%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.22% 0.20% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 7
10th Percentile £430 £605 £500
25th Percentile £447 £675 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £700 £690
Median % change year-on-year -35.04% +1.45% -3.16%
75th Percentile £469 £838 £738
90th Percentile £476 £965 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Application Platform Skills
UK

Ethereum falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,710 4,028 4,857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.73% 11.11% 10.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,483 2,501 3,243
10th Percentile £288 £263 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £507 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +1.40% -4.76%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £631
90th Percentile £700 £800 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £463 £470
% change year-on-year +0.54% -1.60% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 79 147
10th Percentile £16.47 £19.88 £15.44
25th Percentile £20.50 £24.18 £18.81
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +36.36% +34.15%
75th Percentile £65.25 £65.36 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £74.00 £74.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £50.00 £26.78
% change year-on-year -30.00% +86.71% +48.78%

Ethereum
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ethereum relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Ethereum job vacancy trend in the UK

Ethereum
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Ethereum.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Ethereum

Ethereum
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Ethereum.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Ethereum

Ethereum
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 Ethereum within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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 +7 6 £455 -35.04% 19
England -24 6 £455 -35.04% 29
Work from Home +14 4 £447 -38.34% 11

Ethereum
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 8 (100.00%) Hyperledger
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (25.00%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) GCP
1 3 (37.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 3 (37.50%) Stackdriver
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) GitLab
1 3 (37.50%) Hardhat
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Blockchain Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) GCP DevOps
1 3 (37.50%) GCP DevOps Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Blockchain Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Smart Contracts
1 3 (37.50%) Truffle
1 3 (37.50%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Blockchain
2 3 (37.50%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) AIOps
2 3 (37.50%) Computer Science
2 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
2 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
2 3 (37.50%) High Availability
2 3 (37.50%) Incident Response
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (37.50%) MLOps
2 3 (37.50%) Open Source
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Asset Management
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) Bash
2 3 (37.50%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Solidity
3 2 (25.00%) DAML
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
2 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (37.50%) Ansible
2 3 (37.50%) Grafana
2 3 (37.50%) Prometheus
2 3 (37.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Google
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft