Solidity Job Trends

Solidity
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Solidity skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 669 762 771
Rank change year-on-year +93 +9 +311
Permanent jobs citing Solidity 4 36 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.008% 0.046% 0.003%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.031% 0.15% 0.008%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile - £78,625 £97,750
25th Percentile - £85,938 £98,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £92,500 £102,500
Median % change year-on-year -45.95% -9.76% +2.50%
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,625 £109,375
90th Percentile £118,000 £106,250 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 - -

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 13,095 24,160 25,522
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.41% 30.87% 40.76%
Number of salaries quoted 8,447 15,323 20,928
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,713 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% -4.62% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £105,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

Solidity
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Solidity 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
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solidity over the 6 months to 13 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Solidity in the UK

Solidity
Top 5 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 13 September 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 +79 4 £50,000 -44.44% 3
Work from Home +74 2 £50,000 -54.55% 3
London +29 2 £130,000 +67.74% 3
East of England - 2 £50,000 -
UK excluding London - 2 £50,000 -

Solidity
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Blockchain Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Smart Contracts
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) web3js
2 1 (25.00%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Blockchain
2 1 (25.00%) Web3
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Cryptography
1 2 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) DeFi
2 1 (25.00%) Key Management
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Rust
2 3 (75.00%) C++
3 2 (50.00%) C
3 2 (50.00%) Go
4 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) PhD
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes