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 cited Blockchain over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 641 529 391
Rank change year-on-year -112 -138 +131
Permanent jobs citing Blockchain 91 133 638
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.099% 0.30% 0.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.37% 0.71% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 64 30 186
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £82,813 £75,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £100,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £130,000 £157,500 £100,064
90th Percentile £150,000 £190,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -28.57% -15.15%

All Generic Skills
UK

Blockchain 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 24,470 18,713 34,727
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.53% 42.61% 35.72%
Number of salaries quoted 13,862 9,069 23,011
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,800 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,450 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,763 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.41% +3.53% -9.09%

Blockchain
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Blockchain job vacancy trend in the UK

Blockchain
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Blockchain.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Blockchain

Blockchain
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Blockchain over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Blockchain in the UK

Blockchain
Top 7 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 21 May 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
England -94 91 £100,000 -11.11% 63
London -11 86 £100,000 +6.67% 52
Work from Home +31 17 £87,500 -7.89% 20
UK excluding London -131 3 £50,000 - 15
South West -57 2 £50,000 -62.26%
Midlands -78 1 - - 2
West Midlands -88 1 - - 2

Blockchain
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (6.59%) Ethereum
2 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.10%) Hyperledger
3 1 (1.10%) Solana
Applications
1 7 (7.69%) Maya
Business Applications
1 11 (12.09%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (1.10%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 31 (34.07%) AWS
2 24 (26.37%) Cloud Computing
3 23 (25.27%) Datadog
4 21 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
5 18 (19.78%) Amazon S3
5 18 (19.78%) AWS Lambda
5 18 (19.78%) Serverless
6 17 (18.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 17 (18.68%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (15.38%) Azure
8 7 (7.69%) GCP
9 4 (4.40%) OCI
10 1 (1.10%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.10%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.10%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.19%) CHAP
2 5 (5.49%) Network Security
3 1 (1.10%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (19.78%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (18.68%) DynamoDB
2 17 (18.68%) NoSQL
3 4 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.40%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (3.30%) DB2
4 3 (3.30%) Redis
5 2 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.10%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 18 (19.78%) GitLab
1 18 (19.78%) Jenkins
2 17 (18.68%) CircleCI
3 4 (4.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (2.20%) Jaeger
4 2 (2.20%) rollup.js
5 1 (1.10%) Burp Suite
5 1 (1.10%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.10%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.10%) Gatling
5 1 (1.10%) JMeter
5 1 (1.10%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.10%) Postman
5 1 (1.10%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.10%) Selenium
5 1 (1.10%) SonarQube
General
1 50 (54.95%) Finance
2 43 (47.25%) Social Skills
3 36 (39.56%) Banking
4 13 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (13.19%) Financial Institution
6 7 (7.69%) Games
6 7 (7.69%) Law
7 6 (6.59%) Public Sector
8 5 (5.49%) Legal
9 4 (4.40%) Investment Banking
9 4 (4.40%) Local Government
9 4 (4.40%) Mandarin Language
10 3 (3.30%) Dutch Language
10 3 (3.30%) French Language
11 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (1.10%) Advertising
12 1 (1.10%) Marketing
12 1 (1.10%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (34.07%) Developer
2 29 (31.87%) Senior
3 21 (23.08%) Senior Developer
4 12 (13.19%) Auditor
5 11 (12.09%) Security Auditor
6 9 (9.89%) Internal Auditor
6 9 (9.89%) Rust Developer
7 7 (7.69%) Software Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Architect
8 5 (5.49%) Associate Director
8 5 (5.49%) Consultant
8 5 (5.49%) IT Consultant
8 5 (5.49%) Lead
8 5 (5.49%) Rust Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Backend Developer
9 4 (4.40%) Development Manager
9 4 (4.40%) Oracle Consultant
9 4 (4.40%) Senior Backend Developer
9 4 (4.40%) Senior Consultant
9 4 (4.40%) Senior IT Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (32.97%) web3js
2 18 (19.78%) Kafka
2 18 (19.78%) RabbitMQ
3 17 (18.68%) gRPC
3 17 (18.68%) RESTful
4 7 (7.69%) Smart Contracts
5 3 (3.30%) Middleware
6 2 (2.20%) REST
6 2 (2.20%) WebSockets
7 1 (1.10%) Flutter
7 1 (1.10%) Node.js
7 1 (1.10%) Playwright
7 1 (1.10%) SwiftUI
7 1 (1.10%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 31 (34.07%) Web3
2 22 (24.18%) Cloud Native
3 16 (17.58%) Management Information System
4 7 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (4.40%) Algorithms
5 4 (4.40%) Data Structures
5 4 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.40%) Hedge funds
5 4 (4.40%) NHS
6 3 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.20%) Augmented Reality
7 2 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.20%) IoT
7 2 (2.20%) Virtual Reality
8 1 (1.10%) N-Tier
8 1 (1.10%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.69%) Linux
1 7 (7.69%) Windows
2 5 (5.49%) Unix
3 4 (4.40%) CentOS
3 4 (4.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (4.40%) Ubuntu
3 4 (4.40%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.30%) AIX
5 1 (1.10%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (39.56%) Risk Management
2 34 (37.36%) Containerisation
2 34 (37.36%) Software Engineering
3 30 (32.97%) Analytics
4 29 (31.87%) CI/CD
5 28 (30.77%) DevOps
6 26 (28.57%) Microservices
7 25 (27.47%) Cybersecurity
7 25 (27.47%) Infrastructure as Code
8 24 (26.37%) Low Latency
8 24 (26.37%) Observability
9 23 (25.27%) Agile
9 23 (25.27%) AI
10 22 (24.18%) High Availability
11 20 (21.98%) Test Automation
12 19 (20.88%) Computer Science
12 19 (20.88%) Performance Optimisation
13 18 (19.78%) Event-Driven
13 18 (19.78%) Performance Monitoring
14 17 (18.68%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 24 (26.37%) Go
2 15 (16.48%) Rust
3 4 (4.40%) TypeScript
4 3 (3.30%) Java
4 3 (3.30%) Kotlin
4 3 (3.30%) Python
5 2 (2.20%) Bash
5 2 (2.20%) Elixir
5 2 (2.20%) Erlang
6 1 (1.10%) C#
6 1 (1.10%) C++
6 1 (1.10%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.10%) JCL
6 1 (1.10%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 23 (25.27%) Degree
2 12 (13.19%) CGEIT
2 12 (13.19%) CISA
2 12 (13.19%) CISM
2 12 (13.19%) CISSP
2 12 (13.19%) FFIEC
2 12 (13.19%) SANS
3 11 (12.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (8.79%) Postgraduate
5 4 (4.40%) PhD
6 2 (2.20%) ACCA
6 2 (2.20%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.20%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.20%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.19%) COBIT
1 12 (13.19%) GDPR
1 12 (13.19%) NIST
2 1 (1.10%) QA
System Software
1 28 (30.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (32.97%) Kubernetes
2 25 (27.47%) Terraform
3 22 (24.18%) Prometheus
4 6 (6.59%) Ansible
5 4 (4.40%) Argo
5 4 (4.40%) Grafana
6 1 (1.10%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 4 (4.40%) Oracle
2 3 (3.30%) Citrix
3 1 (1.10%) AppDynamics
3 1 (1.10%) Duck Creek
3 1 (1.10%) Guidewire
3 1 (1.10%) Splunk
3 1 (1.10%) Veracode