Blockchain Contracts

Blockchain
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blockchain in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Blockchain over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 517 606 608
Rank change year-on-year +89 +2 -13
Contract jobs citing Blockchain 73 97 253
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.16% 0.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.55% 0.49% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 65 215
10th Percentile £425 £475 £425
25th Percentile £488 £538 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £734 £750 £675
90th Percentile £776 £840 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £663 £557
% change year-on-year -32.08% +18.99% -17.51%
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 excluding London median hourly rate - £95.00 £59.00
% change year-on-year - +61.02% -

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,163 19,732 29,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.34% 33.30% 33.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,459 13,566 20,480
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £656
90th Percentile £788 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 907 640 723
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.16 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.13% -18.24% +4.05%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.05 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £20.07
% change year-on-year +29.55% +9.64% -16.40%

Blockchain
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Blockchain in the UK

Blockchain
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Blockchain in the UK

Blockchain
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Blockchain over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Blockchain in the UK

Blockchain
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Blockchain in the UK

Blockchain
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Blockchain within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
England +96 63 £600 -5.88% 100
London +60 49 £650 +4.00% 79
Work from Home +107 37 £550 -12.00% 58
UK excluding London +57 11 £450 -32.08% 17
North of England - 5 £450 - 2
South West +21 4 - - 3
Yorkshire - 3 £325 -
North West - 2 £450 - 2
Midlands +29 1 £550 - 5
South East +14 1 £550 -24.14% 2
East Midlands - 1 £550 - 4

Blockchain
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 (5.48%) Ethereum
2 3 (4.11%) Hyperledger
3 2 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.37%) CMS
4 1 (1.37%) MetaMask
4 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.37%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.37%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 21 (28.77%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (2.74%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 12 (16.44%) AWS
2 9 (12.33%) GCP
3 4 (5.48%) OCI
4 3 (4.11%) Azure
4 3 (4.11%) WhatsApp
5 1 (1.37%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (1.37%) Contentful
5 1 (1.37%) GitHub
5 1 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.37%) IaaS
5 1 (1.37%) PaaS
5 1 (1.37%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.22%) Internet
2 1 (1.37%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.85%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.48%) Data Lake
2 4 (5.48%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.11%) MySQL
4 2 (2.74%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.37%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (5.48%) Git
2 3 (4.11%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.37%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.37%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.37%) Gatling
3 1 (1.37%) GitLab
3 1 (1.37%) Jaeger
3 1 (1.37%) JMeter
3 1 (1.37%) Selenium
3 1 (1.37%) Spinnaker
3 1 (1.37%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (1.37%) WebDriver
General
1 25 (34.25%) Social Skills
2 21 (28.77%) Finance
3 8 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.48%) Banking
4 4 (5.48%) Financial Institution
4 4 (5.48%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.48%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.74%) Games
5 2 (2.74%) Marketing
5 2 (2.74%) Public Speaking
6 1 (1.37%) Arabic Language
6 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 22 (30.14%) Developer
2 20 (27.40%) Architect
3 12 (16.44%) Blockchain Developer
4 10 (13.70%) Blockchain Architect
4 10 (13.70%) Blockchain Engineer
4 10 (13.70%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (9.59%) Lead
6 5 (6.85%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Senior
7 4 (5.48%) Cryptography Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Data Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Senior Developer
8 3 (4.11%) Blockchain Lead
8 3 (4.11%) Product Manager
8 3 (4.11%) Symfony Developer
9 2 (2.74%) PHP Developer
9 2 (2.74%) PHP Symfony Developer
9 2 (2.74%) Project Manager
9 2 (2.74%) Software Engineer
9 2 (2.74%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (17.81%) Smart Contracts
2 12 (16.44%) Node.js
3 10 (13.70%) web3js
4 9 (12.33%) React
5 6 (8.22%) .NET
6 5 (6.85%) Symfony
7 4 (5.48%) OpenID
7 4 (5.48%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (4.11%) AngularJS
8 3 (4.11%) CSS
8 3 (4.11%) HTML
9 2 (2.74%) ASP.NET
9 2 (2.74%) Django
9 2 (2.74%) GraphQL
9 2 (2.74%) JSON
9 2 (2.74%) Nuxt
9 2 (2.74%) Vue
10 1 (1.37%) Next.js
10 1 (1.37%) Playwright
10 1 (1.37%) Truffle
Miscellaneous
1 17 (23.29%) Web3
2 9 (12.33%) Distributed Applications
3 7 (9.59%) IoT
4 6 (8.22%) Algorithms
4 6 (8.22%) CBDC
5 4 (5.48%) Data Structures
6 3 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.74%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.74%) Sports Betting
8 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.37%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.74%) Linux
2 1 (1.37%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (21.92%) Cryptography
2 15 (20.55%) Computer Science
3 14 (19.18%) Fintech
3 14 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (13.70%) Software Engineering
5 9 (12.33%) Agile
5 9 (12.33%) Microservices
6 8 (10.96%) API Development
6 8 (10.96%) DeFi
7 7 (9.59%) Data Science
7 7 (9.59%) DevOps
8 6 (8.22%) Mathematics
8 6 (8.22%) Roadmaps
8 6 (8.22%) Translating Business Requirements
9 5 (6.85%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (6.85%) Decision-Making
9 5 (6.85%) Machine Learning
9 5 (6.85%) Regtech
9 5 (6.85%) Use Case
9 5 (6.85%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 13 (17.81%) C++
1 13 (17.81%) Java
1 13 (17.81%) Python
2 7 (9.59%) JavaScript
3 5 (6.85%) PHP
4 4 (5.48%) Solidity
5 3 (4.11%) Clojure
5 3 (4.11%) Rust
5 3 (4.11%) SQL
6 2 (2.74%) C#
6 2 (2.74%) DAML
6 2 (2.74%) Go
6 2 (2.74%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.37%) Bash
7 1 (1.37%) Perl
7 1 (1.37%) Ruby
7 1 (1.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (20.55%) Degree
2 12 (16.44%) SC Cleared
2 12 (16.44%) Security Cleared
3 11 (15.07%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.48%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.74%) PhD
6 1 (1.37%) CCIE
6 1 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.37%) CISM
6 1 (1.37%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.74%) QA
2 1 (1.37%) NIST
2 1 (1.37%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (6.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (9.59%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.48%) Terraform
3 3 (4.11%) Grafana
4 2 (2.74%) Argo
4 2 (2.74%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (5.48%) Oracle
2 1 (1.37%) Finsemble