Ethereum Contracts

Ethereum
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Ethereum skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ethereum over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 532 586 656
Rank change year-on-year +54 +70 +134
Contract jobs citing Ethereum 4 5 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.013% 0.012% 0.047%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.12% 0.11% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 20
10th Percentile - £458 £568
25th Percentile £413 £525 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -21.43% -
75th Percentile £438 £775 £750
90th Percentile - - £819
UK excluding London median daily rate - £550 £1,000
% change year-on-year - -45.00% +12.68%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

Ethereum falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,443 4,379 5,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.17% 10.14% 10.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,227 3,048 4,086
10th Percentile £290 £263 £263
25th Percentile £400 £367 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £644
90th Percentile £713 £789 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 162 159
10th Percentile £18.27 £13.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £26.39 £16.50 £21.13
Median hourly rate £52.50 £32.12 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.48% -38.83% +128.26%
75th Percentile £68.00 £51.91 £66.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.06 £32.12 £46.75
% change year-on-year +65.20% -31.30% +133.75%

Ethereum
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Ethereum in the UK

Ethereum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Ethereum in the UK

Ethereum
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ethereum within the UK over the 6 months to 1 July 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Work from Home +42 3 £425 -22.73% 119
England +58 2 £425 -34.62% 134
London +45 2 £425 -43.33% 88

Ethereum
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 3 (75.00%) Hyperledger
2 1 (25.00%) MetaMask
Business Applications
1 3 (75.00%) R3 Corda
2 2 (50.00%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Hardhat
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Blockchain Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Blockchain Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) Smart Contracts
1 1 (25.00%) Truffle
1 1 (25.00%) Vue
1 1 (25.00%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Blockchain
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (25.00%) NFT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 2 (50.00%) Microservices
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Cryptography
2 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) DAML
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) C
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) Go
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Rust
2 1 (25.00%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) PhD
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle