Digital Currency (Digital/Electronic Money)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Digital Currency in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Digital Currency over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 903 983 1108
Rank change year-on-year +80 +125 -212
Permanent jobs citing Digital Currency 8 16 105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.008% 0.015% 0.067%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.023% 0.036% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 8 6 20
10th Percentile £52,625 £55,663 £62,375
25th Percentile £54,688 £63,825 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £79,525 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% -0.59% +10.34%
75th Percentile £93,125 £96,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £101,000 £115,625 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 - £62,500

All Generic Skills
UK

Digital Currency 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 34,939 44,198 74,100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.47% 42.68% 47.35%
Number of salaries quoted 22,999 23,881 34,286
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £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 £83,875
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%

Digital Currency
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Currency in the UK

Digital Currency
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Digital Currency.

Salary trend for Digital Currency in the UK

Digital Currency
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Digital Currency over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Digital Currency in the UK

Digital Currency
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Currency within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
England +84 8 £80,000 +0.60% 20
Work from Home +76 8 £80,000 +20.21% 7
London +110 3 £85,000 +6.88% 16
UK excluding London -10 2 £56,250 - 3
South West - 2 £56,250 -

Digital Currency
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 (25.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (25.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) JUnit
2 2 (25.00%) Maven
General
1 6 (75.00%) Banking
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Retail
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) GraphQL
1 3 (37.50%) gRPC
1 3 (37.50%) Kafka
2 2 (25.00%) Hibernate
2 2 (25.00%) JSON
2 2 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (25.00%) RESTful
2 2 (25.00%) Spring
2 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (25.00%) Blockchain
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Agile
1 3 (37.50%) Cryptocurrency
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps
1 3 (37.50%) Fintech
1 3 (37.50%) Microservices
2 2 (25.00%) API Development
2 2 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (25.00%) BDD
2 2 (25.00%) Clean Code
2 2 (25.00%) Cryptography
2 2 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (25.00%) Digital Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (25.00%) OO
2 2 (25.00%) Physics
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) SOLID
2 2 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Go
2 3 (37.50%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) Groovy
4 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) SEPA
2 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform