DeFi Jobs with Work from Home Options

Decentralised Finance (DeFi)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for DeFi skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DeFi over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 575 654 767
Rank change year-on-year +79 +113 -220
Permanent jobs citing DeFi 13 9 97
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.039% 0.022% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.042% 0.023% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 12 4 9
10th Percentile £59,500 - £76,650
25th Percentile £83,125 £56,250 £83,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £83,750 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.31% -16.25% +42.86%
75th Percentile £118,125 £110,625 £122,500
90th Percentile £156,000 £111,750 £132,000
UK median annual salary £110,000 £83,750 £115,000
% change year-on-year +31.34% -27.17% +58.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

DeFi is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,765 39,361 67,763
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.36% 96.08% 97.01%
Number of salaries quoted 23,348 27,351 41,449
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

DeFi
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing DeFi as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DeFi trend for jobs with a WFH option

DeFi
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DeFi.

DeFi salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

DeFi
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DeFi over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

DeFi salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

DeFi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (30.77%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
2 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Fargate
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (15.38%) Serverless
3 1 (7.69%) SaaS
3 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (7.69%) Tableau
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Legal
3 1 (7.69%) Marketing
3 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Blockchain Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Blockchain Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Graduate
5 1 (7.69%) Graduate Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Graduate Software Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Junior
5 1 (7.69%) Junior Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Junior Software Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Scala Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) REST
2 5 (38.46%) Smart Contracts
3 4 (30.77%) WebSockets
4 1 (7.69%) .NET
4 1 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (7.69%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (7.69%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (84.62%) Blockchain
2 5 (38.46%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
3 1 (7.69%) Web3
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Cryptocurrency
1 5 (38.46%) Software Engineering
2 4 (30.77%) API Design
2 4 (30.77%) Computer Science
2 4 (30.77%) DevOps
2 4 (30.77%) Open Source
2 4 (30.77%) Open Source Development
3 3 (23.08%) Algorithmic Trading
4 2 (15.38%) Analytics
4 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 2 (15.38%) Data Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven
4 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (15.38%) Fintech
4 2 (15.38%) High Availability
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (15.38%) Microservices
5 1 (7.69%) Clean Code
5 1 (7.69%) Design Patterns
5 1 (7.69%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Go
1 4 (30.77%) Python
1 4 (30.77%) Rust
2 3 (23.08%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) C
3 1 (7.69%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.69%) Ruby
3 1 (7.69%) Scala
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
1 1 (7.69%) PhD
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Google
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft