Blockchain
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blockchain in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Blockchain over the 6 months to 5 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 497 523 465
Rank change year-on-year +26 -58 +38
Permanent jobs citing Blockchain 246 706 883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.57% 0.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.25% 1.31% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 163 413 462
10th Percentile £65,000 £53,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £60,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,064 £105,000 £104,375
90th Percentile £134,000 £120,000 £121,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £79,632 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +22.51% -7.14% -

All Generic Skills
UK

Blockchain 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 19,682 53,728 56,126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.84% 43.27% 44.07%
Number of salaries quoted 14,421 29,894 33,440
10th Percentile £33,210 £34,923 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,675 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.85% +6.13% -
75th Percentile £84,056 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

Blockchain
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Blockchain in the UK

Blockchain
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Blockchain in the UK

Blockchain
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Blockchain over the 6 months to 5 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Blockchain in the UK

Blockchain
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Blockchain within the UK over the 6 months to 5 December 2023. 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 +57 195 £87,500 +6.06% 176
UK excluding London +216 128 £79,632 +22.51% 50
Work from Home +43 109 £70,576 -11.78% 89
London -1 102 £91,085 +4.10% 154
North of England +164 54 £79,632 +22.51% 6
Scotland +93 38 £70,576 +41.15% 2
Yorkshire +126 31 £79,632 -8.99%
North West +117 23 £79,632 +22.51% 6
South West +93 21 £79,632 +17.97% 4
East of England +114 11 £76,250 +38.64% 2
Northern Ireland +16 3 £130,000 +136.36%
South East +117 1 £95,000 +37.68% 37

Blockchain
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 6 (2.44%) Ethereum
2 2 (0.81%) Appian
2 2 (0.81%) Confluence
2 2 (0.81%) Hedera
2 2 (0.81%) Hyperledger
2 2 (0.81%) JBoss
2 2 (0.81%) nginx
3 1 (0.41%) Apache
3 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.41%) OpenZeppelin
Applications
1 8 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (5.28%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.81%) R3 Corda
2 2 (0.81%) Ripple
3 1 (0.41%) Quorum
Cloud Services
1 118 (47.97%) GCP
2 117 (47.56%) SaaS
3 109 (44.31%) Azure
4 106 (43.09%) IaaS
5 102 (41.46%) PaaS
6 87 (35.37%) AWS
7 4 (1.63%) MailChimp
8 3 (1.22%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (0.81%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (0.81%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.81%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (0.81%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.81%) Figma
9 2 (0.81%) GitHub
9 2 (0.81%) Serverless
9 2 (0.81%) Snowflake
9 2 (0.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.41%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.41%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.66%) Network Security
2 3 (1.22%) Internet
3 2 (0.81%) Firewall
3 2 (0.81%) IPFS
3 2 (0.81%) VPN
4 1 (0.41%) NAS
4 1 (0.41%) SAN
4 1 (0.41%) VLAN
4 1 (0.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (41.87%) Data Warehouse
2 102 (41.46%) Data Lake
3 101 (41.06%) NoSQL
4 23 (9.35%) Big Data
5 8 (3.25%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.22%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.22%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.81%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.81%) Redis
8 1 (0.41%) MySQL
8 1 (0.41%) OLAP
8 1 (0.41%) OLTP
8 1 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (1.22%) GitLab
1 3 (1.22%) Hardhat
1 3 (1.22%) Jenkins
1 3 (1.22%) JIRA
2 2 (0.81%) Cucumber
2 2 (0.81%) Gatling
2 2 (0.81%) Mocha
2 2 (0.81%) Postman
3 1 (0.41%) Git
3 1 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 171 (69.51%) Finance
2 132 (53.66%) Banking
3 52 (21.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 50 (20.33%) Marketing
5 39 (15.85%) Retail
6 30 (12.20%) Social Skills
7 24 (9.76%) Legal
8 20 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
9 11 (4.47%) Back Office
10 5 (2.03%) Games
10 5 (2.03%) Law
11 4 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.22%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.81%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.81%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.81%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.41%) International Banking
14 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 129 (52.44%) Architect
2 102 (41.46%) Enterprise Architect
3 41 (16.67%) Commercial Architect
4 36 (14.63%) Senior
5 25 (10.16%) Solutions Architect
6 20 (8.13%) Developer
7 11 (4.47%) Lead
7 11 (4.47%) Security Engineer
8 10 (4.07%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 10 (4.07%) Technology Strategist
9 8 (3.25%) Product Manager
9 8 (3.25%) Senior Security Engineer
10 7 (2.85%) Software Engineer
11 6 (2.44%) Blockchain Engineer
11 6 (2.44%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 6 (2.44%) Technical Architect
12 5 (2.03%) Python Developer
12 5 (2.03%) Technical Solutions Architect
13 4 (1.63%) DevOps Engineer
13 4 (1.63%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (41.46%) OpenID
2 77 (31.30%) Kafka
3 49 (19.92%) Web Services
4 46 (18.70%) REST
5 44 (17.89%) JWT
6 25 (10.16%) Spring Boot
7 23 (9.35%) Spring
8 21 (8.54%) web3js
9 13 (5.28%) Smart Contracts
10 10 (4.07%) PyTorch
11 9 (3.66%) Node.js
12 7 (2.85%) React
13 5 (2.03%) CSS
13 5 (2.03%) HTML
13 5 (2.03%) TensorFlow
14 4 (1.63%) Hugging Face
14 4 (1.63%) JSON
15 3 (1.22%) .NET
15 3 (1.22%) Flask
15 3 (1.22%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 102 (41.46%) Mainframe
2 60 (24.39%) Public Cloud
3 59 (23.98%) Cloud Native
4 24 (9.76%) Data Centre
5 22 (8.94%) Robotics
5 22 (8.94%) Web3
6 13 (5.28%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 11 (4.47%) PKI
8 10 (4.07%) Culture of Ownership
8 10 (4.07%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (3.25%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (3.25%) Private Cloud
10 7 (2.85%) Algorithms
10 7 (2.85%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.63%) Hedge funds
12 4 (1.63%) IoT
12 4 (1.63%) Low-Code
13 3 (1.22%) Product Ownership
14 2 (0.81%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 102 (41.46%) Unix
2 12 (4.88%) Linux
3 1 (0.41%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (60.98%) Agile
2 142 (57.72%) Artificial Intelligence
3 137 (55.69%) Microservices
4 128 (52.03%) Machine Learning
5 126 (51.22%) Roadmaps
6 115 (46.75%) Cybersecurity
7 105 (42.68%) Customer Service
8 100 (40.65%) Strategic Roadmap
8 100 (40.65%) Thought Leadership
8 100 (40.65%) Zero Trust
9 90 (36.59%) Technology Strategy
10 86 (34.96%) Enterprise Architecture
11 64 (26.02%) Event-Driven
12 58 (23.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 55 (22.36%) IT Strategy
14 52 (21.14%) Data Architecture
15 47 (19.11%) Analytics
16 43 (17.48%) Creative Thinking
17 42 (17.07%) Data Security
18 41 (16.67%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 36 (14.63%) Java
2 33 (13.41%) Python
3 13 (5.28%) Rust
4 8 (3.25%) Go
5 7 (2.85%) C#
5 7 (2.85%) C++
5 7 (2.85%) JavaScript
5 7 (2.85%) TypeScript
6 5 (2.03%) Scala
6 5 (2.03%) SQL
7 4 (1.63%) Solidity
8 3 (1.22%) Bash
9 2 (0.81%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.81%) Ruby
9 2 (0.81%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.41%) C
10 1 (0.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (8.54%) Degree
2 11 (4.47%) CEH
2 11 (4.47%) CISM
2 11 (4.47%) CISSP
3 10 (4.07%) Master's Degree
4 9 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.81%) PhD
5 2 (0.81%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.81%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.41%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.28%) SEPA
2 7 (2.85%) QA
3 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (17.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 86 (34.96%) Kubernetes
2 16 (6.50%) Terraform
3 4 (1.63%) Ansible
4 2 (0.81%) Argo
4 2 (0.81%) MIIS
4 2 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.41%) Grafana
5 1 (0.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (4.07%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.63%) Pardot
2 4 (1.63%) Salesforce
3 3 (1.22%) Adobe
3 3 (1.22%) Foundry
4 2 (0.81%) Pega
5 1 (0.41%) Google
5 1 (0.41%) SAP