Smart Contracts Jobs

Smart Contract
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Smart Contracts skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Smart Contracts over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 674 846 961
Rank change year-on-year +172 +115 +47
Permanent jobs citing Smart Contracts 10 39 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% 0.040% 0.025%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.12% 0.19% 0.083%
Number of salaries quoted 9 34 11
10th Percentile £82,000 £42,500 £72,500
25th Percentile £85,000 £67,805 £90,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £86,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.29% -13.50% -
75th Percentile £150,000 £117,500 £113,750
90th Percentile £165,000 £137,913 £142,500
UK excluding London median annual salary - £79,288 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Smart Contracts falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,493 21,046 31,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.28% 21.40% 30.24%
Number of salaries quoted 6,474 15,738 19,371
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £50,509 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £79,900 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

Smart Contracts
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Smart Contracts in the UK

Smart Contracts
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Smart Contracts.

Salary trend for Smart Contracts in the UK

Smart Contracts
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Smart Contracts over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Smart Contracts in the UK

Smart Contracts
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Smart Contracts 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 +160 10 £130,000 +50.29% 44
London +85 10 £130,000 +44.44% 37
Work from Home +167 2 £160,000 +39.13% 23

Smart Contracts
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 5 (50.00%) Ethereum
2 1 (10.00%) Hyperledger
2 1 (10.00%) SAS
2 1 (10.00%) Solana
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (10.00%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (10.00%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) DynamoDB
1 3 (30.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (30.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) Tableau
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Marketing
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (10.00%) Law
4 1 (10.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Backend Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Node.js Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Blockchain Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Blockchain Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Data Scientist
4 1 (10.00%) Head of AI
4 1 (10.00%) IT Director
4 1 (10.00%) Rust Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Scientist
4 1 (10.00%) Services Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) web3js
2 3 (30.00%) ethers.js
2 3 (30.00%) Node.js
2 3 (30.00%) RESTful
2 3 (30.00%) WebSockets
3 1 (10.00%) JSON
3 1 (10.00%) PySpark
3 1 (10.00%) Spring
3 1 (10.00%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Blockchain
2 4 (40.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (10.00%) Bitcoin
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (10.00%) Web3
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) Code Quality
2 4 (40.00%) DeFi
3 3 (30.00%) Analytics
3 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (20.00%) Cryptocurrency
4 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (20.00%) Fintech
4 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (20.00%) Predictive Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
5 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
5 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Solidity
2 4 (40.00%) TypeScript
3 3 (30.00%) Rust
4 1 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) Python
4 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (10.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Basel III
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) MiFID
1 1 (10.00%) PSD2
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Automation Anywhere
2 1 (10.00%) Blue Prism
2 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (10.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) FIS
2 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (10.00%) PayPal
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (10.00%) Temenos
2 1 (10.00%) UiPath