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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 632 522 590
Rank change year-on-year -110 +68 +82
Contract jobs citing Ethereum 18 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.036% 0.010% 0.011%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.42% 0.091% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 5
10th Percentile £123 - £458
25th Percentile £474 £413 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.35% -22.73% -21.43%
75th Percentile £595 £438 £775
90th Percentile £797 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £503 - £550
% change year-on-year - - -45.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £85.00 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 4,296 3,300 4,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.60% 11.21% 10.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,881 2,176 3,063
10th Percentile £313 £289 £263
25th Percentile £404 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £486 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -2.75% -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £597 £619
90th Percentile £675 £703 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 66 163
10th Percentile £16.03 £17.33 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.25 £26.45 £16.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £52.50 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% +65.56% -39.60%
75th Percentile £61.58 £71.88 £51.91
90th Percentile £74.93 £79.38 £73.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £53.61 £30.00
% change year-on-year -39.38% +78.70% -38.14%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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
England -101 18 £520 +22.35% 1
London -52 16 £525 +23.53% 1
Work from Home -49 6 £520 +22.35% 1
UK excluding London - 2 £503 -
South East - 2 £503 -

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 13 (72.22%) Hyperledger
2 1 (5.56%) Solana
Business Applications
1 8 (44.44%) R3 Corda
2 5 (27.78%) Quorum
3 4 (22.22%) Ripple
4 3 (16.67%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) AWS
1 4 (22.22%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 6 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Git
1 6 (33.33%) JIRA
1 6 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (5.56%) Hardhat
General
1 10 (55.56%) Finance
2 7 (38.89%) Banking
3 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Legal
5 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 14 (77.78%) Developer
2 8 (44.44%) Senior
3 7 (38.89%) Senior Developer
4 6 (33.33%) Blockchain Developer
5 4 (22.22%) Java Developer
6 3 (16.67%) Backend Developer
6 3 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (11.11%) Architect
7 2 (11.11%) Blockchain Architect
7 2 (11.11%) Senior Backend Developer
8 1 (5.56%) Blockchain Engineer
8 1 (5.56%) Digital Director
8 1 (5.56%) Java Engineer
8 1 (5.56%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (66.67%) Smart Contracts
2 10 (55.56%) REST
2 10 (55.56%) RESTful
2 10 (55.56%) Spring
2 10 (55.56%) Spring Boot
3 6 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 6 (33.33%) gRPC
3 6 (33.33%) Kafka
3 6 (33.33%) Spring Batch
4 5 (27.78%) J2EE
4 5 (27.78%) Node.js
5 3 (16.67%) web3js
6 1 (5.56%) ethers.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (77.78%) Blockchain
2 10 (55.56%) Product Ownership
3 4 (22.22%) Cloud Native
4 3 (16.67%) Web3
5 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
6 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Microservices
2 8 (44.44%) Code Quality
3 7 (38.89%) Agile
3 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
4 6 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
4 6 (33.33%) Scrum
4 6 (33.33%) Unit Testing
5 5 (27.78%) Event-Driven
6 4 (22.22%) Collaborative Culture
6 4 (22.22%) Data Modelling
6 4 (22.22%) Software Engineering
6 4 (22.22%) User Experience
7 3 (16.67%) Conflict Resolution
8 2 (11.11%) AI
8 2 (11.11%) Client Onboarding
8 2 (11.11%) Data Privacy
8 2 (11.11%) Data Protection
8 2 (11.11%) Decision-Making
8 2 (11.11%) Digital Identity
8 2 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) Java
2 10 (55.56%) TypeScript
3 8 (44.44%) Solidity
4 1 (5.56%) C#
4 1 (5.56%) DAML
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (11.11%) Degree