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 have cited NFT over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 565 687 824
Rank change year-on-year +122 +137 -113
Contract jobs citing NFT 2 7 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.012% 0.026%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.015% 0.037% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 19
10th Percentile - - £408
25th Percentile £575 £319 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £363 £550
Median % change year-on-year +65.52% -34.09% +29.41%
75th Percentile £625 £438 £600
90th Percentile - £618 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Generic Skills
UK

NFT 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 12,943 18,687 29,061
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.11% 33.33% 33.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,316 12,868 20,392
10th Percentile £270 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £767
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +10.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 920 610 695
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.21 £10.63 £17.06
Median hourly rate £35.00 £22.00 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +59.09% -18.46% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £60.47 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £75.00 £65.67
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.61 £22.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year +57.30% +3.53% -7.61%

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 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
Work from Home +115 2 £600 +71.43% 4
England +89 1 - - 8
London +84 1 - - 8

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 2 (100.00%) AWS
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Blockchain
1 2 (100.00%) Web3
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript