Web3
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Web3 in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Web3 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 668 849 942
Rank change year-on-year +181 +93 +38
Permanent jobs citing Web3 16 36 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.031% 0.037% 0.043%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.089% 0.10% 0.099%
Number of salaries quoted 6 27 27
10th Percentile £27,500 £37,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £34,063 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £135,313 £117,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £167,500 £122,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - - £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -43.75%

All Generic Skills
UK

Web3 falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 18,032 35,027 45,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.57% 35.62% 43.58%
Number of salaries quoted 9,839 23,030 23,975
10th Percentile £31,500 £28,000 £35,271
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Web3
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Web3 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Web3 in the UK

Web3
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Web3.

Salary trend for Web3 in the UK

Web3
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Web3 over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Web3 in the UK

Web3
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Web3 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 +167 14 £90,000 +20.00% 108
London +88 14 £90,000 +20.00% 98
Work from Home +185 7 £103,750 +3.75% 69

Web3
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 (25.00%) Ethereum
2 2 (12.50%) Solana
3 1 (6.25%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) AWS
2 5 (31.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (31.25%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (31.25%) Amazon S3
2 5 (31.25%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (31.25%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (31.25%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (31.25%) Datadog
2 5 (31.25%) Serverless
3 1 (6.25%) Discord
3 1 (6.25%) Figma
3 1 (6.25%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (31.25%) DynamoDB
1 5 (31.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) CircleCI
1 5 (31.25%) GitLab
1 5 (31.25%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Banking
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 3 (18.75%) Marketing
4 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Games
4 2 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (6.25%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
1 4 (25.00%) AWS Software Engineer
1 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
1 4 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Research Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Rust Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Blockchain Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Community Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Copywriter
4 1 (6.25%) Lead
4 1 (6.25%) Product Lead
4 1 (6.25%) SEO Copywriter
4 1 (6.25%) SEO Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Social Media Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (100.00%) web3js
2 5 (31.25%) gRPC
2 5 (31.25%) Kafka
2 5 (31.25%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (31.25%) RESTful
3 2 (12.50%) Unreal Engine
4 1 (6.25%) HTML
4 1 (6.25%) JSON
4 1 (6.25%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 16 (100.00%) Blockchain
2 5 (31.25%) Cloud Native
3 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (12.50%) Hedge funds
3 2 (12.50%) Social Media
3 2 (12.50%) Video Editing
4 1 (6.25%) Bitcoin
4 1 (6.25%) Blog
4 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Analytics
2 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
3 6 (37.50%) DeFi
4 5 (31.25%) Containerisation
4 5 (31.25%) Continuous Delivery
4 5 (31.25%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (31.25%) Data Security
4 5 (31.25%) DevOps
4 5 (31.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 5 (31.25%) High Availability
4 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (31.25%) Investment Management
4 5 (31.25%) Low Latency
4 5 (31.25%) Microservices
4 5 (31.25%) Observability
4 5 (31.25%) Performance Monitoring
4 5 (31.25%) Performance Optimisation
4 5 (31.25%) Risk Analytics
4 5 (31.25%) Risk Management
4 5 (31.25%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Go
2 3 (18.75%) Rust
2 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
3 2 (12.50%) C++
3 2 (12.50%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) SQL
4 1 (6.25%) Solidity
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Terraform
2 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes
2 5 (31.25%) Prometheus
3 2 (12.50%) Argo
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Adobe
2 1 (6.25%) Ahrefs
2 1 (6.25%) Google
2 1 (6.25%) Instagram
2 1 (6.25%) Twitter