Ethereum Contract Job Trends

Ethereum
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Ethereum skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 670 555 554
Rank change year-on-year -115 -1 +61
Contract jobs citing Ethereum 16 2 8
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.029% 0.006% 0.021%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.34% 0.056% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 8
10th Percentile £500 - £474
25th Percentile £516 - £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 - £700
75th Percentile £588 - £781
90th Percentile £728 - £961
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 - -

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 4,681 3,572 4,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.60% 10.84% 10.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,048 2,313 2,750
10th Percentile £284 £276 £263
25th Percentile £402 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% -8.10% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £597 £650
90th Percentile £680 £702 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +2.78% -2.70% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 92 85
10th Percentile £14.88 £17.40 £17.45
25th Percentile £16.60 £24.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £36.50 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.96% -5.19% -26.67%
75th Percentile £61.95 £65.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £84.86 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £38.03 £48.56
% change year-on-year -14.54% -21.68% +5.15%

Ethereum
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ethereum relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Ethereum job vacancy trend in the UK

Ethereum
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Ethereum.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Ethereum

Ethereum
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ethereum over the 6 months to 18 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Ethereum in the UK

Ethereum
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Ethereum.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Ethereum

Ethereum
Top 5 Contract Job 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 18 September 2026. 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 - 14 £525 - 28
England - 14 £525 - 30
Work from Home -59 5 £525 - 12
UK excluding London - 1 £600 - 7
Scotland - 1 £600 - 1

Ethereum
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (37.50%) Hyperledger
2 1 (6.25%) Solana
Business Applications
1 6 (37.50%) R3 Corda
2 4 (25.00%) Distributed Ledger
2 4 (25.00%) Quorum
2 4 (25.00%) Ripple
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) AWS
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Hardhat
General
1 8 (50.00%) Finance
2 6 (37.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Developer
2 8 (50.00%) Blockchain Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Senior
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Blockchain Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Blockchain Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (62.50%) Smart Contracts
2 7 (43.75%) web3js
3 5 (31.25%) Node.js
4 4 (25.00%) REST
4 4 (25.00%) RESTful
4 4 (25.00%) Spring
4 4 (25.00%) Spring Boot
5 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
5 1 (6.25%) ethers.js
Miscellaneous
1 16 (100.00%) Blockchain
2 7 (43.75%) Web3
3 5 (31.25%) Cloud Native
4 4 (25.00%) Product Ownership
5 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
6 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
6 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Microservices
2 7 (43.75%) Software Engineering
3 6 (37.50%) Event-Driven
4 4 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (18.75%) Cryptography
5 3 (18.75%) Integration Patterns
5 3 (18.75%) Key Management
6 2 (12.50%) AI
6 2 (12.50%) Anti-Money Laundering
6 2 (12.50%) API Development
6 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 2 (12.50%) Data Privacy
6 2 (12.50%) DevOps
6 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven Programming
6 2 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (12.50%) KYC
6 2 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
7 1 (6.25%) Front End Development
7 1 (6.25%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) Java
2 8 (50.00%) Solidity
3 5 (31.25%) DAML
3 5 (31.25%) TypeScript
4 2 (12.50%) Go
4 2 (12.50%) Python
4 2 (12.50%) Rust
5 1 (6.25%) C#
5 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes