Blockchain Developer Jobs

Blockchain Developer
UK

The median Blockchain Developer salary in the UK is £105,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 April 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 681 875 968
Rank change year-on-year +194 +93 +153
Permanent jobs requiring a Blockchain Developer 3 10 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.006% 0.010% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.006% 0.011% 0.020%
Number of salaries quoted 1 7 14
10th Percentile - £54,000 £60,000
25th Percentile £97,500 £80,000 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £115,000 £88,750
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +29.58% -11.25%
75th Percentile £112,500 £117,500 £93,750
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 46,971 93,051 95,196
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.06% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,308 66,827 59,871
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -12.08% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,344 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.69% -4.76% +5.00%

Blockchain Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Blockchain Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Blockchain Developer in the UK

Blockchain Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Blockchain Developer.

Salary trend for Blockchain Developer in the UK

Blockchain Developer
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Blockchain Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +182 3 £105,000 -8.70% 3
London +100 3 £105,000 -8.70% 3
Work from Home +177 1 - - 3

Blockchain Developer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, Blockchain Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Blockchain Developer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Blockchain
2 2 (66.67%) Ethereum
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) DeFi
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Memory Management
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Go
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Bitcoin
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Rust
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 1 (33.33%) Spring
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Key Management
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Solana
3 1 (33.33%) Smart Contracts
3 1 (33.33%) Creative Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking

Blockchain Developer Skill Set
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 2 (66.67%) Ethereum
2 1 (33.33%) Solana
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Smart Contracts
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Blockchain
2 1 (33.33%) Bitcoin
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) DeFi
1 2 (66.67%) Open Source
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Key Management
2 1 (33.33%) Memory Management
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Go
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Rust
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle