Blockchain Contracts in England

Blockchain
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blockchain in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Blockchain over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 466 546 558
Rank change year-on-year +80 +12 +11
Contract jobs citing Blockchain 65 94 216
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.20% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.58% 0.58% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 62 189
10th Percentile £463 £441 £425
25th Percentile £488 £538 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £631 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +5.21% +4.35%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £713
90th Percentile £775 £824 £813
UK median daily rate £625 £644 £600
% change year-on-year -2.91% +7.29% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £92.50 £56.50
Median hourly rate - £95.00 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year - +61.02% -
75th Percentile - £97.50 £61.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £95.00 £59.00
% change year-on-year - +61.02% -

All Generic Skills
England

Blockchain is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,144 16,209 23,887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.60% 33.64% 33.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,307 11,283 17,040
10th Percentile £266 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £573 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £697 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 814 571 628
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.16
Median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +52.15% -16.66% +3.77%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.60
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.26 £27.50
% change year-on-year +40.98% -19.07% +4.90%

Blockchain
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Blockchain as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Blockchain in England

Blockchain
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Blockchain in England.

Daily rate trend for Blockchain in England

Blockchain
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Blockchain in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Blockchain in England

Blockchain
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Blockchain in England.

Hourly rate trend for Blockchain in England

Blockchain
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Blockchain within the England region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +67 53 £650 +4.00% 83
South West +9 4 - -
North of England - 3 £450 - 3
North West - 3 £450 - 3
South East +31 1 £550 -24.14% 16
Midlands +23 1 £550 - 2
East Midlands - 1 £550 - 1
Blockchain
UK

Blockchain
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (6.15%) Ethereum
2 3 (4.62%) Hyperledger
3 2 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.54%) CMS
4 1 (1.54%) MetaMask
4 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.54%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.54%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 20 (30.77%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (4.62%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 9 (13.85%) AWS
1 9 (13.85%) GCP
2 4 (6.15%) OCI
3 3 (4.62%) Azure
3 3 (4.62%) WhatsApp
4 1 (1.54%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (1.54%) Contentful
4 1 (1.54%) GitHub
4 1 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (1.54%) IaaS
4 1 (1.54%) PaaS
4 1 (1.54%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.23%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 4 (6.15%) Data Lake
2 4 (6.15%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.08%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.54%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (6.15%) Git
2 3 (4.62%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.54%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.54%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.54%) Gatling
3 1 (1.54%) GitLab
3 1 (1.54%) Jaeger
3 1 (1.54%) JMeter
3 1 (1.54%) Selenium
3 1 (1.54%) Spinnaker
3 1 (1.54%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (1.54%) WebDriver
General
1 22 (33.85%) Social Skills
2 20 (30.77%) Finance
3 8 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.15%) Financial Institution
4 4 (6.15%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.15%) Telecoms
5 3 (4.62%) Banking
6 2 (3.08%) Public Speaking
7 1 (1.54%) Games
7 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.54%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (27.69%) Architect
1 18 (27.69%) Developer
2 12 (18.46%) Solutions Architect
3 10 (15.38%) Blockchain Developer
4 7 (10.77%) Blockchain Architect
4 7 (10.77%) Blockchain Engineer
4 7 (10.77%) Lead
4 7 (10.77%) Senior
5 6 (9.23%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Data Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Product Manager
6 4 (6.15%) Senior Developer
7 3 (4.62%) Blockchain Lead
8 2 (3.08%) Applications Architect
8 2 (3.08%) Digital Architect
8 2 (3.08%) ERP Architect
8 2 (3.08%) IT Architect
8 2 (3.08%) Lead DevOps
8 2 (3.08%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.85%) Node.js
2 8 (12.31%) React
2 8 (12.31%) Smart Contracts
3 7 (10.77%) web3js
4 5 (7.69%) .NET
5 4 (6.15%) OpenID
5 4 (6.15%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (4.62%) AngularJS
6 3 (4.62%) CSS
6 3 (4.62%) HTML
7 2 (3.08%) ASP.NET
7 2 (3.08%) Django
7 2 (3.08%) GraphQL
7 2 (3.08%) JSON
7 2 (3.08%) Nuxt
7 2 (3.08%) Symfony
7 2 (3.08%) Vue
8 1 (1.54%) Android Jetpack
8 1 (1.54%) Playwright
8 1 (1.54%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 14 (21.54%) Web3
2 9 (13.85%) IoT
3 8 (12.31%) Distributed Applications
4 6 (9.23%) CBDC
5 5 (7.69%) Algorithms
6 3 (4.62%) Data Structures
6 3 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (3.08%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (3.08%) Product Ownership
7 2 (3.08%) Sports Betting
8 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.54%) PKI
8 1 (1.54%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.62%) Linux
2 2 (3.08%) Android
3 1 (1.54%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (18.46%) Computer Science
1 12 (18.46%) Cryptography
1 12 (18.46%) Fintech
2 11 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (13.85%) Agile
3 9 (13.85%) DeFi
3 9 (13.85%) Microservices
4 8 (12.31%) API Development
4 8 (12.31%) DevOps
4 8 (12.31%) Software Engineering
5 7 (10.77%) Artificial Intelligence
5 7 (10.77%) Data Science
6 6 (9.23%) Machine Learning
6 6 (9.23%) Translating Business Requirements
7 5 (7.69%) Decision-Making
7 5 (7.69%) Use Case
8 4 (6.15%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (6.15%) Event-Driven
8 4 (6.15%) Regtech
8 4 (6.15%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.85%) Java
1 9 (13.85%) Python
2 8 (12.31%) C++
3 4 (6.15%) JavaScript
3 4 (6.15%) Solidity
4 3 (4.62%) SQL
5 2 (3.08%) C#
5 2 (3.08%) DAML
5 2 (3.08%) Go
5 2 (3.08%) Kotlin
5 2 (3.08%) PHP
5 2 (3.08%) Rust
5 2 (3.08%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.54%) Bash
6 1 (1.54%) Perl
6 1 (1.54%) Ruby
6 1 (1.54%) Scala
6 1 (1.54%) Swift
Qualifications
1 12 (18.46%) Degree
1 12 (18.46%) SC Cleared
1 12 (18.46%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (6.15%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.08%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.08%) QA
2 1 (1.54%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (9.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (12.31%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.15%) Terraform
3 3 (4.62%) Grafana
4 2 (3.08%) Argo
4 2 (3.08%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.54%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (9.23%) Oracle
2 2 (3.08%) SAP
3 1 (1.54%) Finsemble