Solidity Job Trends

Solidity
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Solidity skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 696 637 829
Rank change year-on-year -59 +192 +148
Permanent jobs citing Solidity 2 4 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.003% 0.009% 0.014%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.015% 0.027% 0.040%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 8
10th Percentile - £136,000 £78,300
25th Percentile - £145,000 £139,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £150,000 £165,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +57.14%
75th Percentile - £152,500 £190,000
90th Percentile - £157,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - £88,000

All Programming Languages
UK

Solidity falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 13,540 14,554 30,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.10% 34.02% 35.43%
Number of salaries quoted 9,499 10,215 24,198
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -1.79% +3.70% -1.82%

Solidity
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Solidity job vacancy trend in the UK

Solidity
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Solidity.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Solidity

Solidity
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Solidity within the UK over the 6 months to 18 March 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
London -2 2 - - 4
England -29 2 - - 4

Solidity
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 2 (100.00%) Ethereum
1 2 (100.00%) Hyperledger
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (50.00%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Hardhat
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Blockchain Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Blockchain Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Smart Contracts
2 1 (50.00%) Truffle
2 1 (50.00%) web3js
2 1 (50.00%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Blockchain
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (50.00%) Fintech
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform