DeFi Jobs in London

Decentralised Finance (DeFi)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for DeFi skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DeFi over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 480 612 844
Rank change year-on-year +132 +232 -243
Permanent jobs citing DeFi 20 10 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.085% 0.030% 0.063%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.093% 0.031% 0.064%
Number of salaries quoted 18 2 22
10th Percentile £62,125 - £65,000
25th Percentile £71,563 £56,250 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £62,500 £140,000
Median % change year-on-year +76.00% -55.36% +93.10%
75th Percentile £117,500 £68,750 -
90th Percentile £130,250 - -
England median annual salary £110,000 £62,500 £115,000
% change year-on-year +76.00% -45.65% +58.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

DeFi is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,541 32,138 66,718
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 91.06% 95.35% 97.01%
Number of salaries quoted 15,921 23,160 34,012
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,241 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,500 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,073 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.57% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £111,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

DeFi
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for DeFi in London

DeFi
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for DeFi in London

DeFi
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DeFi in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DeFi in London

DeFi
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DeFi within the London region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
Central London - 5 £75,000 - 1
DeFi
England

DeFi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 5 (25.00%) Ethereum
2 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (5.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (5.00%) GCP
2 1 (5.00%) Serverless
General
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Legal
3 1 (5.00%) Marketing
3 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (65.00%) Developer
2 7 (35.00%) Senior
3 5 (25.00%) Blockchain Developer
4 4 (20.00%) Rust Developer
4 4 (20.00%) Senior Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Junior
5 3 (15.00%) Junior Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Blockchain Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Junior Quantitative Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Quantitative Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Lead
7 1 (5.00%) Product Designer
7 1 (5.00%) React Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Scala Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (35.00%) Smart Contracts
2 6 (30.00%) REST
3 5 (25.00%) WebSockets
4 1 (5.00%) .NET
4 1 (5.00%) CSS
4 1 (5.00%) CSS3
4 1 (5.00%) HTML
4 1 (5.00%) HTML5
4 1 (5.00%) Node.js
4 1 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (5.00%) React
4 1 (5.00%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (5.00%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (50.00%) Blockchain
2 5 (25.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (10.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (10.00%) Web3
4 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Cryptocurrency
2 7 (35.00%) Computer Science
3 6 (30.00%) Low Latency
3 6 (30.00%) Software Engineering
4 4 (20.00%) API Design
4 4 (20.00%) Open Source
4 4 (20.00%) Open Source Development
5 3 (15.00%) Algorithmic Trading
5 3 (15.00%) DevOps
5 3 (15.00%) Fintech
5 3 (15.00%) High-Frequency Trading
6 2 (10.00%) Clean Code
6 2 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
6 2 (10.00%) Proprietary Trading
6 2 (10.00%) Ultra-Low Latency
7 1 (5.00%) Business Development
7 1 (5.00%) Data Engineering
7 1 (5.00%) Predictive Analytics
7 1 (5.00%) Prototyping
7 1 (5.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) Rust
2 5 (25.00%) Java
2 5 (25.00%) Python
3 4 (20.00%) Go
4 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.00%) C
5 1 (5.00%) C#
5 1 (5.00%) Ruby
5 1 (5.00%) Scala
5 1 (5.00%) SQL
5 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Google
2 1 (5.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Qualys
2 1 (5.00%) Zscaler