DeFi Jobs in Central London

Decentralised Finance (DeFi)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring DeFi skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DeFi over the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 183 -
Rank change year-on-year +26 - -
Permanent jobs citing DeFi 3 5 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.12% 0.13% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.14% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 0
10th Percentile £103,000 - -
25th Percentile £111,250 £66,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £75,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +73.33% - -
75th Percentile £151,250 £160,000 -
90th Percentile £161,000 - -
London median annual salary £105,000 £110,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +76.00% -55.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

DeFi falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,423 3,473 4,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 96.38% 92.17% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,667 2,689 4,053
10th Percentile £41,900 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,565 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.28% -5.91% +7.14%

DeFi
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing DeFi as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for DeFi in Central London

DeFi
Salary Trend in Central London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DeFi in Central London.

Salary trend for DeFi in Central London

DeFi
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DeFi in Central London over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DeFi in Central London

DeFi
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DeFi within the Central London region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +27 3 £130,000 +73.33% 6
DeFi
London

DeFi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (66.67%) Ethereum
1 2 (66.67%) Solana
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Blockchain Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Blockchain Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Junior
2 1 (33.33%) Junior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) LINQ to SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Smart Contracts
2 1 (33.33%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Blockchain
2 2 (66.67%) Bitcoin
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Key Management
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Rust
2 1 (33.33%) Solidity
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes