Solidity Contract Job Trends

Solidity
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Solidity skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 550 544 625
Rank change year-on-year -6 +81 +121
Contract jobs citing Solidity 6 11 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.018% 0.029% 0.013%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.055% 0.092% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 3
10th Percentile £461 £491 -
25th Percentile £469 £628 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £700 £500
Median % change year-on-year -31.00% +40.00% -36.51%
75th Percentile £500 £800 £613
90th Percentile £695 £954 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Programming Languages
UK

Solidity falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,842 12,000 15,149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.68% 32.02% 31.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,124 7,845 10,808
10th Percentile £345 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £664
90th Percentile £733 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 298 321 443
10th Percentile £29.00 £25.99 £34.40
25th Percentile £41.25 £41.25 £48.31
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £67.19 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.88 £75.00 £79.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

Solidity
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Solidity job vacancy trend in the UK

Solidity
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Solidity
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solidity over the 6 months to 14 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solidity in the UK

Solidity
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 Solidity within the UK over the 6 months to 14 October 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 +1 5 £476 -32.00% 2
London +23 4 £469 -33.00% 2
Work from Home +28 3 £485 -25.46% 3

Solidity
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 4 (66.67%) Hyperledger
2 3 (50.00%) Ethereum
3 1 (16.67%) Solana
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Hardhat
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Blockchain Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Blockchain Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) web3js
2 5 (83.33%) Smart Contracts
3 3 (50.00%) Truffle
4 1 (16.67%) ERC20
4 1 (16.67%) ethers.js
4 1 (16.67%) Next.js
4 1 (16.67%) Node.js
4 1 (16.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Blockchain
2 3 (50.00%) Web3
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (50.00%) Open Source
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) DeFi
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Go
2 1 (16.67%) Rust
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Foundry
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft