Blockchain Job Trends in England

Blockchain
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blockchain in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Blockchain over the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 673 547 305
Rank change year-on-year -126 -242 +176
Permanent jobs citing Blockchain 64 102 646
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.067% 0.23% 0.89%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.26% 0.55% 2.76%
Number of salaries quoted 50 34 103
10th Percentile £46,250 £44,875 £41,250
25th Percentile £66,417 £55,000 £63,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £87,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +16.67% -6.59%
75th Percentile £121,875 £137,813 £98,750
90th Percentile £150,000 £190,000 £128,000
UK median annual salary £100,000 £100,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +42.86% -12.66%

All Generic Skills
England

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 24,485 18,416 23,447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.75% 42.04% 32.48%
Number of salaries quoted 16,050 9,336 14,255
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £30,385
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -10.20%

Blockchain
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Blockchain relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Blockchain job vacancy trend in England

Blockchain
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Blockchain.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Blockchain

Blockchain
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Blockchain in England over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Blockchain in England

Blockchain
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Blockchain within the England region over the 6 months to 18 August 2026. 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
London -36 61 £100,000 +25.00% 16
Yorkshire -34 1 £40,000 - 1
North of England -45 1 £40,000 - 1
West Midlands -52 1 - -
Midlands -64 1 - -
Blockchain
UK

Blockchain
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 5 (7.81%) Ethereum
2 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.56%) Solana
Business Applications
1 10 (15.63%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 20 (31.25%) AWS
2 15 (23.44%) Datadog
3 13 (20.31%) AWS CloudFormation
4 10 (15.63%) Amazon S3
4 10 (15.63%) AWS Lambda
4 10 (15.63%) Serverless
5 9 (14.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (14.06%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (14.06%) Azure
5 9 (14.06%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (6.25%) GCP
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.69%) CHAP
1 3 (4.69%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.56%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.63%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (14.06%) DynamoDB
2 9 (14.06%) NoSQL
3 4 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (4.69%) Redis
5 2 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.56%) Db2
6 1 (1.56%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 10 (15.63%) GitLab
1 10 (15.63%) Jenkins
2 9 (14.06%) CircleCI
3 4 (6.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (3.13%) Jaeger
4 2 (3.13%) rollup.js
5 1 (1.56%) Burp Suite
5 1 (1.56%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.56%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.56%) Gatling
5 1 (1.56%) JMeter
5 1 (1.56%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.56%) Postman
5 1 (1.56%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.56%) Selenium
5 1 (1.56%) SonarQube
General
1 31 (48.44%) Finance
2 23 (35.94%) Banking
3 20 (31.25%) Social Skills
4 8 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (9.38%) Financial Institution
5 6 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (9.38%) Law
6 4 (6.25%) Investment Banking
6 4 (6.25%) Mandarin Language
7 2 (3.13%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.56%) Billing
8 1 (1.56%) Legal
8 1 (1.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 26 (40.63%) Senior
2 22 (34.38%) Developer
3 15 (23.44%) Software Engineer
4 12 (18.75%) Senior Developer
5 11 (17.19%) Senior Software Engineer
6 9 (14.06%) Rust Developer
7 6 (9.38%) Auditor
8 5 (7.81%) Internal Auditor
8 5 (7.81%) Lead
9 4 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (6.25%) Operations Engineer
10 3 (4.69%) Architect
10 3 (4.69%) Backend Developer
10 3 (4.69%) Development Engineer
10 3 (4.69%) Junior Developer
10 3 (4.69%) Security Auditor
10 3 (4.69%) Senior Backend Developer
10 3 (4.69%) Senior Development Engineer
10 3 (4.69%) Senior Software Development Engineer
10 3 (4.69%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (31.25%) web3js
2 10 (15.63%) Kafka
2 10 (15.63%) RabbitMQ
3 9 (14.06%) gRPC
3 9 (14.06%) RESTful
3 9 (14.06%) Smart Contracts
4 2 (3.13%) REST
4 2 (3.13%) WebSockets
5 1 (1.56%) Flutter
5 1 (1.56%) Middleware
5 1 (1.56%) Node.js
5 1 (1.56%) Playwright
5 1 (1.56%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 20 (31.25%) Web3
2 11 (17.19%) Cloud Native
3 7 (10.94%) Management Information System
4 4 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (6.25%) Hedge funds
5 3 (4.69%) AI Agents
6 2 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.56%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.56%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.56%) IoT
7 1 (1.56%) N-Tier
7 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.56%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.94%) Linux
2 5 (7.81%) Windows
3 4 (6.25%) CentOS
3 4 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (6.25%) Ubuntu
3 4 (6.25%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.69%) Unix
5 1 (1.56%) AIX
5 1 (1.56%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (43.75%) Software Engineering
2 25 (39.06%) DevOps
3 20 (31.25%) Analytics
4 18 (28.13%) CI/CD
5 17 (26.56%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 16 (25.00%) Low Latency
6 16 (25.00%) Risk Management
7 15 (23.44%) Observability
8 13 (20.31%) High Availability
9 12 (18.75%) Investment Management
10 11 (17.19%) Microservices
10 11 (17.19%) Performance Optimisation
10 11 (17.19%) Test Automation
11 10 (15.63%) Computer Science
11 10 (15.63%) Event-Driven
11 10 (15.63%) Performance Monitoring
12 9 (14.06%) Agile
12 9 (14.06%) Continuous Integration
12 9 (14.06%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 16 (25.00%) Go
2 12 (18.75%) Rust
3 4 (6.25%) TypeScript
4 2 (3.13%) Python
5 1 (1.56%) C#
5 1 (1.56%) C++
5 1 (1.56%) Java
5 1 (1.56%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.56%) JCL
5 1 (1.56%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 14 (21.88%) Degree
2 6 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (6.25%) Postgraduate
4 3 (4.69%) CGEIT
4 3 (4.69%) CISA
4 3 (4.69%) CISM
4 3 (4.69%) CISSP
4 3 (4.69%) FFIEC
4 3 (4.69%) SANS
5 2 (3.13%) ACCA
5 2 (3.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.69%) COBIT
1 3 (4.69%) GDPR
1 3 (4.69%) NIST
2 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 18 (28.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (28.13%) Kubernetes
2 14 (21.88%) Terraform
3 11 (17.19%) Prometheus
4 4 (6.25%) Ansible
4 4 (6.25%) Argo
5 1 (1.56%) Grafana
5 1 (1.56%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 1 (1.56%) AppDynamics
1 1 (1.56%) Citrix
1 1 (1.56%) Salesforce
1 1 (1.56%) Splunk
1 1 (1.56%) Veracode