Web3 Contract Job Trends

Web3
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Web3 in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Web3 over the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 575 538 592
Rank change year-on-year -37 +54 +171
Contract jobs citing Web3 9 6 13
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.024% 0.018% 0.029%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.070% 0.055% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 8
10th Percentile £304 £625 £313
25th Percentile £322 £644 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £750 £475
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +57.89% -19.49%
75th Percentile £475 £888 £539
90th Percentile £494 £925 £636
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £450
% change year-on-year - - -10.00%

All Generic Skills
UK

Web3 falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,897 10,908 13,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.02% 31.91% 31.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,055 6,528 9,313
10th Percentile £275 £269 £263
25th Percentile £406 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.05% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £625 £656 £668
90th Percentile £738 £775 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 648 339 495
10th Percentile £13.80 £17.45 £16.50
25th Percentile £18.03 £22.86 £20.50
Median hourly rate £27.21 £33.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.55% -22.35% +21.43%
75th Percentile £59.31 £64.63 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £78.47 £77.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £45.21
% change year-on-year -15.38% -28.11% +52.12%

Web3
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Web3 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Web3 job vacancy trend in the UK

Web3
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Web3.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Web3

Web3
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web3 over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Web3 in the UK

Web3
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 Web3 within the UK over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Work from Home +3 7 £450 -45.45% 5
England -28 6 £450 -40.00% 7
London -11 5 £400 -46.67% 7

Web3
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Datadog
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
1 2 (22.22%) Hardhat
General
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) Banking
4 1 (11.11%) iGaming
4 1 (11.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
1 3 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Blockchain Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Blockchain Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (88.89%) web3js
2 7 (77.78%) Smart Contracts
3 5 (55.56%) Next.js
4 3 (33.33%) React
4 3 (33.33%) React Native
5 1 (11.11%) .NET
5 1 (11.11%) CSS
5 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
5 1 (11.11%) HTML
5 1 (11.11%) Node.js
5 1 (11.11%) Redux
5 1 (11.11%) REST
5 1 (11.11%) Truffle
5 1 (11.11%) ZK
5 1 (11.11%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) Blockchain
2 3 (33.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
3 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
3 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Android
1 3 (33.33%) Apple iOS
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
1 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) Software Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) API Integration
3 3 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 3 (33.33%) SDLC
4 2 (22.22%) DeFi
4 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (22.22%) Open Source
5 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
5 1 (11.11%) DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (11.11%) Front End Development
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (11.11%) Observability
5 1 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (11.11%) Security Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) TypeScript
2 6 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (22.22%) Bash
3 2 (22.22%) Java
3 2 (22.22%) Python
3 2 (22.22%) Rust
3 2 (22.22%) Solidity
4 1 (11.11%) C
4 1 (11.11%) C++
4 1 (11.11%) Go
4 1 (11.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) CCIP
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) KVM
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Grafana
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Foundry
2 1 (11.11%) VMware