Bitcoin
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Bitcoin in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Bitcoin over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 872 968 1150
Rank change year-on-year +96 +182 -262
Permanent jobs citing Bitcoin 5 10 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.010% 0.048%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.014% 0.023% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 5 4 41
10th Percentile £64,000 - £65,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £90,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -18.18% +29.41%
75th Percentile £110,000 £97,813 £120,000
90th Percentile £112,250 £102,875 -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Generic Skills
UK

Bitcoin is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,962 44,378 73,876
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 42.75% 47.31%
Number of salaries quoted 23,044 23,979 34,135
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,375 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £84,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Bitcoin
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Bitcoin as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Bitcoin in the UK

Bitcoin
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Bitcoin.

Salary trend for Bitcoin in the UK

Bitcoin
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bitcoin over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Bitcoin in the UK

Bitcoin
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bitcoin within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
London +121 5 £87,500 -2.78% 6
England +85 5 £87,500 -2.78% 7

Bitcoin
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (60.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Apache Arrow
1 3 (60.00%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (20.00%) Selenium
1 1 (20.00%) TestComplete
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Python Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Python Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Rust Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Financial Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) QA Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Service Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (20.00%) Derivative
2 1 (20.00%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Automated Trading
1 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) Fintech
2 1 (20.00%) High-Frequency Trading
2 1 (20.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (20.00%) SDET
2 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Rust
3 2 (40.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Software Quality Assurance