DeFi Contracts in London

Decentralised Finance (DeFi)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for DeFi skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DeFi over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 385 484 587
Rank change year-on-year +99 +103 -116
Contract jobs citing DeFi 8 3 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.046% 0.012% 0.075%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.052% 0.013% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 29
10th Percentile £643 £506 £408
25th Percentile £688 £534 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £613 £700
Median % change year-on-year +18.37% -12.50% +7.69%
75th Percentile £738 £684 £875
90th Percentile - £709 £900
England median daily rate £725 £613 £713
% change year-on-year +18.37% -14.04% +9.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,465 23,124 35,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.32% 90.91% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,089 16,746 26,132
10th Percentile £340 £375 £390
25th Percentile £449 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 264 402
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.21 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.59% +10.45% +8.07%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.08 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%

DeFi
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing DeFi as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for DeFi in London

DeFi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DeFi in London.

Daily rate trend for DeFi in London

DeFi
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DeFi within the London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Central London - 2 £625 - 1
DeFi
England

DeFi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Business Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (12.50%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Internet
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (62.50%) Finance
3 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
4 2 (25.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Architect
2 6 (75.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Blockchain Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Digital Architect
4 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Blockchain Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Blockchain Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Developer
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Digital Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Digital Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Digital Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Web Architect
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Blockchain
2 7 (87.50%) Web3
3 6 (75.00%) CBDC
4 3 (37.50%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Fintech
1 5 (62.50%) Translating Business Requirements
2 4 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 4 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (50.00%) Cryptography
3 3 (37.50%) API Development
3 3 (37.50%) Data Science
3 3 (37.50%) Mathematics
3 3 (37.50%) Regtech
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 1 (12.50%) Cryptocurrency
5 1 (12.50%) DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Java
1 1 (12.50%) Kotlin
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) Degree
3 3 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes