Smart Contracts Contracts with Work from Home Options

Smart Contract
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Smart Contracts skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Smart Contracts over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 339 457 587
Rank change year-on-year +118 +130 -101
Contract jobs citing Smart Contracts 10 9 33
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.067% 0.036% 0.075%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.28% 0.14% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 30
10th Percentile £540 £548 £513
25th Percentile £588 £606 £616
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% - -3.45%
75th Percentile £788 £750 £900
90th Percentile - £800 £938
UK median daily rate £688 £738 £675
% change year-on-year -6.78% +9.26% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £62.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.00 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

Smart Contracts is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,613 6,357 13,117
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.19% 25.24% 29.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,530 4,729 9,676
10th Percentile £337 £400 £400
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +12.82%
75th Percentile £650 £655 £644
90th Percentile £800 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 81 123
10th Percentile £24.23 £22.50 £21.20
25th Percentile - £43.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £65.13
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

Smart Contracts
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Smart Contracts as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Smart Contracts trend for jobs with a WFH option

Smart Contracts
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Smart Contracts.

Smart Contracts daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Smart Contracts
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Smart Contracts over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Smart Contracts daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Smart Contracts
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (20.00%) Ethereum
2 1 (10.00%) Hyperledger
2 1 (10.00%) MetaMask
2 1 (10.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (10.00%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Smartsheet
1 3 (30.00%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Blockchain Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Cryptography Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Architect
3 3 (30.00%) Blockchain Architect
3 3 (30.00%) Project Manager
4 2 (20.00%) Business Manager
4 2 (20.00%) Business Process Manager
4 2 (20.00%) Business Process Project Manager
4 2 (20.00%) Business Project Manager
4 2 (20.00%) Developer
4 2 (20.00%) HR Manager
4 2 (20.00%) Process Manager
5 1 (10.00%) Blockchain Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Blockchain Software Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (10.00%) CSS
1 1 (10.00%) CSS3
1 1 (10.00%) HTML
1 1 (10.00%) HTML5
1 1 (10.00%) jQuery
1 1 (10.00%) JSON
1 1 (10.00%) Node.js
1 1 (10.00%) React
1 1 (10.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (10.00%) Truffle
1 1 (10.00%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Blockchain
2 3 (30.00%) Life Science
2 3 (30.00%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (20.00%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (10.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Cryptography
2 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) BPR
3 3 (30.00%) Change Management
3 3 (30.00%) Mathematics
3 3 (30.00%) Web Development
3 3 (30.00%) Workflow
4 2 (20.00%) High Availability
4 2 (20.00%) Low Latency
4 2 (20.00%) Project Management
5 1 (10.00%) Backtesting
5 1 (10.00%) Cryptocurrency
5 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis
5 1 (10.00%) Data Security
5 1 (10.00%) DeFi
5 1 (10.00%) High-Frequency Trading
5 1 (10.00%) Regulatory Change
5 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) C++
1 6 (60.00%) Java
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (30.00%) Clojure
4 2 (20.00%) Solidity
5 1 (10.00%) Bash
5 1 (10.00%) C#
5 1 (10.00%) Perl
5 1 (10.00%) PHP
5 1 (10.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
2 3 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (30.00%) Workday