NFT Contracts

Non-Fungible Token (NFT)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NFT in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NFT over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 545 626 812
Rank change year-on-year +81 +186 -
Contract jobs citing NFT 4 1 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.002% 0.030%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.036% 0.007% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 20
10th Percentile - - £403
25th Percentile £575 £475 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £625 £525 £659
90th Percentile - - £826
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £625

All Generic Skills
UK

NFT falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,202 15,069 27,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.62% 31.95% 33.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,645 10,215 18,667
10th Percentile £280 £285 £325
25th Percentile £410 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £663 £673 £675
90th Percentile £788 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.30% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 350 491 596
10th Percentile £16.85 £16.92 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.42 £21.00 £17.56
Median hourly rate £41.25 £44.00 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +63.08% +11.60%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £63.25
90th Percentile £75.16 £78.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £46.18 £23.00
% change year-on-year -2.56% +100.78% +13.79%

NFT
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for NFT in the UK

NFT
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for NFT in the UK

NFT
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 NFT within the UK over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Work from Home +80 4 £600 +20.00% 3
England +76 2 - - 2
London +51 2 - - 2

NFT
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
General
1 1 (25.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) web3js
2 3 (75.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Blockchain
1 4 (100.00%) Web3
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (25.00%) Gamification
1 1 (25.00%) Market Research
1 1 (25.00%) Product Management
1 1 (25.00%) Product Strategy
1 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (25.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) TypeScript