Solidity
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Solidity skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Solidity over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 878 946 1042
Rank change year-on-year +68 +96 -188
Permanent jobs citing Solidity 11 32 173
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.030% 0.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.033% 0.070% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 7 20 35
10th Percentile £128,100 £85,875 £63,500
25th Percentile £157,500 £93,750 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £165,000 £105,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% +5.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £190,000 £115,000 £120,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £88,000 - £100,000
% change year-on-year - - +60.00%

All Programming Languages
UK

Solidity is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,108 46,004 82,589
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.88% 43.52% 53.65%
Number of salaries quoted 25,049 29,252 44,335
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,635 £55,000 £53,850
% change year-on-year -2.48% +2.14% +7.70%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Solidity in the UK

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Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Solidity in the UK

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solidity over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Solidity in the UK

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Top 6 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 23 April 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 +96 11 £165,000 +57.14% 14
London +110 7 £172,500 +64.29% 11
Work from Home +72 4 £165,000 +65.00% 11
UK excluding London - 1 £88,000 -
East Midlands - 1 £88,000 -
Midlands - 1 £88,000 -

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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 4 (36.36%) Ethereum
1 4 (36.36%) Hyperledger
1 4 (36.36%) OpenZeppelin
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) IPFS
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Hardhat
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
1 4 (36.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Blockchain Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Blockchain Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Engineering Manager
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Developer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Manager
3 1 (9.09%) IT Programme Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) Smart Contracts
2 5 (45.45%) ERC20
2 5 (45.45%) Truffle
2 5 (45.45%) web3js
3 4 (36.36%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (100.00%) Blockchain
2 4 (36.36%) NFT
2 4 (36.36%) Onboarding
2 4 (36.36%) Web3
3 3 (27.27%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (27.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Cryptography
2 7 (63.64%) Software Engineering
3 4 (36.36%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) Non-Functional Testing
3 4 (36.36%) Open Source
4 3 (27.27%) Collaborative Culture
4 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
4 3 (27.27%) Use Case
4 3 (27.27%) User Experience
5 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (9.09%) Cryptocurrency
5 1 (9.09%) Data Science
5 1 (9.09%) Programme Management
5 1 (9.09%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Rust
1 7 (63.64%) TypeScript
2 3 (27.27%) C++
2 3 (27.27%) Java
2 3 (27.27%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Foundry