Web3 Job Trends in England

Web3
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Web3 in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Web3 over the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 586 646 651
Rank change year-on-year +60 +5 +236
Permanent jobs citing Web3 20 27 24
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.038% 0.055% 0.052%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.11% 0.15% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 18 12 22
10th Percentile £46,375 £74,750 £63,875
25th Percentile £100,000 £83,750 £85,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £130,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.31% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £130,000 £145,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £142,500 - -
UK median annual salary £130,000 £108,750 £100,000
% change year-on-year +19.54% +8.75% +11.11%

All Generic Skills
England

Web3 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 18,590 18,294 17,058
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.68% 37.22% 37.05%
Number of salaries quoted 9,372 8,693 12,755
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Web3
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Web3 job vacancy trend in England

Web3
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Web3.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Web3

Web3
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Web3 in England over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Web3 in England

Web3
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Web3 within the England region over the 6 months to 3 January 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 +65 20 £107,500 -17.31% 18
Web3
UK

Web3
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:

Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 4 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (20.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
2 4 (20.00%) Datadog
2 4 (20.00%) Serverless
3 3 (15.00%) Asana
3 3 (15.00%) Google Docs
3 3 (15.00%) Google Sheets
3 3 (15.00%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) DNS
1 4 (20.00%) LAN
1 4 (20.00%) Network Security
1 4 (20.00%) VPN
1 4 (20.00%) WAN
1 4 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (20.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (20.00%) DynamoDB
1 4 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) CircleCI
1 4 (20.00%) GitLab
1 4 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Banking
4 3 (15.00%) Legal
5 1 (5.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Senior
2 4 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (15.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Blockchain Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Rust Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 1 (5.00%) Lead
5 1 (5.00%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Security Researcher
5 1 (5.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (60.00%) web3js
2 4 (20.00%) gRPC
2 4 (20.00%) Kafka
2 4 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (20.00%) RESTful
3 1 (5.00%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 13 (65.00%) Blockchain
2 4 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (20.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 4 (20.00%) Low-Code
3 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) DevOps
2 8 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (40.00%) Low Latency
3 7 (35.00%) AI
4 6 (30.00%) Software Engineering
5 4 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (20.00%) Change Management
5 4 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (20.00%) Data Security
5 4 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 4 (20.00%) High Availability
5 4 (20.00%) Investment Management
5 4 (20.00%) Load Balancing
5 4 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
5 4 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 4 (20.00%) Process Improvement
5 4 (20.00%) Risk Analytics
5 4 (20.00%) Risk Management
5 4 (20.00%) Service Delivery
5 4 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) Go
2 3 (15.00%) Rust
3 1 (5.00%) C++
3 1 (5.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) CCNP
1 4 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) Terraform
2 4 (20.00%) Ansible
2 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Cisco
2 3 (15.00%) Google