Blockchain
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blockchain in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Blockchain over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 398 531 332
Rank change year-on-year +133 -199 +267
Permanent jobs citing Blockchain 635 535 1,877
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.52% 1.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.81% 1.21% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 187 220 587
10th Percentile £42,500 £52,375 £55,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £87,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £100,064 £106,563 £110,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £130,250 £135,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,576 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -2.65% +7.41% +8.00%

All Generic Skills
UK

Blockchain is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,988 44,314 74,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 42.70% 47.35%
Number of salaries quoted 23,043 23,940 34,254
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Blockchain
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Blockchain in the UK

Blockchain
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Blockchain.

Salary trend for Blockchain in the UK

Blockchain
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Blockchain over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Blockchain in the UK

Blockchain
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Blockchain within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +146 597 £83,750 -1.47% 100
UK excluding London +230 455 £70,576 -2.65% 18
South East +130 176 £65,000 -25.71% 2
London -31 147 £95,000 +5.56% 79
North of England +140 143 £95,128 +111.39% 2
North West +102 132 £75,000 +66.67% 2
Midlands +89 85 £28,000 -49.09% 5
Work from Home -125 81 £70,576 -12.10% 58
East Midlands - 80 £88,000 - 4
South West -23 22 £70,576 +17.63% 3
East of England +24 13 £80,001 +14.29% 3
Scotland -75 13 £70,576 - 1
Yorkshire +68 8 £95,128 -
West Midlands +13 5 £28,000 -49.09% 1
North East -2 3 £35,092 +40.37%
Wales +7 2 £68,750 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £70,000 - 2

Blockchain
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 36 (5.67%) Camunda
1 36 (5.67%) nginx
2 20 (3.15%) Ethereum
3 8 (1.26%) Hyperledger
4 5 (0.79%) Solana
5 4 (0.63%) OpenZeppelin
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (1.26%) Distributed Ledger
1 8 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.47%) R3 Corda
3 2 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.31%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.16%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.16%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.16%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.16%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.16%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 407 (64.09%) IBM Cloud
2 314 (49.45%) Azure
3 169 (26.61%) Azure DevOps
4 131 (20.63%) Serverless
5 125 (19.69%) Azure API Management
5 125 (19.69%) Azure Functions
5 125 (19.69%) Azure Logic Apps
5 125 (19.69%) Azure Service Bus
6 113 (17.80%) AWS
7 61 (9.61%) Amazon S3
8 59 (9.29%) Amazon EKS
9 57 (8.98%) Amazon ECR
9 57 (8.98%) OCI
9 57 (8.98%) Route 53
10 47 (7.40%) OpenShift
11 31 (4.88%) GCP
12 30 (4.72%) SaaS
13 20 (3.15%) IaaS
13 20 (3.15%) PaaS
14 9 (1.42%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.63%) HTTP
1 4 (0.63%) Intranet
1 4 (0.63%) IPFS
1 4 (0.63%) Network Security
2 3 (0.47%) Firewall
2 3 (0.47%) Internet
2 3 (0.47%) VPN
3 1 (0.16%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 286 (45.04%) MongoDB
2 259 (40.79%) NoSQL
3 249 (39.21%) DB2
4 243 (38.27%) PostgreSQL
5 136 (21.42%) Relational Database
6 60 (9.45%) Amazon RDS
7 36 (5.67%) Oracle Database
8 20 (3.15%) Data Lake
9 19 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (2.05%) Big Data
11 12 (1.89%) SQL Server
12 11 (1.73%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.47%) Redis
14 2 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (0.31%) Metadata
15 1 (0.16%) Elasticsearch
15 1 (0.16%) Power BI
15 1 (0.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (2.20%) Jenkins
2 8 (1.26%) Git
2 8 (1.26%) Maven
3 4 (0.63%) Hardhat
4 3 (0.47%) GitLab
5 2 (0.31%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.16%) GitKraken
6 1 (0.16%) JetBrains Rider
6 1 (0.16%) ReSharper
6 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 390 (61.42%) Public Sector
2 232 (36.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 110 (17.32%) Finance
4 53 (8.35%) Social Skills
5 40 (6.30%) Banking
6 30 (4.72%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (4.09%) Marketing
8 16 (2.52%) Legal
9 13 (2.05%) Law
10 10 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.42%) Advertising
11 9 (1.42%) Games
12 8 (1.26%) Mandarin Language
13 7 (1.10%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.79%) Retail
15 4 (0.63%) Digital Economy
16 3 (0.47%) Back Office
16 3 (0.47%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.47%) Investment Banking
17 2 (0.31%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 172 (27.09%) Developer
2 149 (23.46%) Full Stack Engineer
3 137 (21.57%) Full Stack Developer
4 125 (19.69%) Azure Developer
5 111 (17.48%) Azure Engineer
6 101 (15.91%) Senior
7 76 (11.97%) DevOps Engineer
8 48 (7.56%) Senior DevOps
8 48 (7.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 36 (5.67%) Architect
10 28 (4.41%) Blockchain Engineer
11 19 (2.99%) Enterprise Architect
12 18 (2.83%) Designer
13 17 (2.68%) UX Designer
14 16 (2.52%) Lead
15 14 (2.20%) AWS Engineer
16 13 (2.05%) Software Developer
16 13 (2.05%) Solutions Architect
16 13 (2.05%) Technical Engineer
17 11 (1.73%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 293 (46.14%) React
2 253 (39.84%) .NET
3 250 (39.37%) HTML
4 248 (39.06%) CSS
5 247 (38.90%) Web Services
6 244 (38.43%) REST
7 243 (38.27%) Vue
8 241 (37.95%) AngularJS
8 241 (37.95%) ASP.NET
8 241 (37.95%) ASP.NET Core
9 238 (37.48%) Backbone.js
9 238 (37.48%) Ember.js
9 238 (37.48%) jQuery
9 238 (37.48%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 176 (27.72%) Node.js
11 36 (5.67%) KeystoneJS
11 36 (5.67%) Swagger
12 34 (5.35%) Smart Contracts
13 32 (5.04%) web3js
14 21 (3.31%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 407 (64.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 271 (42.68%) Algorithms
3 244 (38.43%) Data Structures
4 214 (33.70%) e-Learning
5 49 (7.72%) Distributed Systems
6 35 (5.51%) Web3
7 22 (3.46%) Greenfield Project
8 19 (2.99%) Mainframe
9 17 (2.68%) Robotics
10 9 (1.42%) NFT
10 9 (1.42%) Onboarding
10 9 (1.42%) Product Ownership
11 8 (1.26%) IoT
12 7 (1.10%) Cloud Native
12 7 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (1.10%) PKI
13 5 (0.79%) Social Media
13 5 (0.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 4 (0.63%) Cybercrime
14 4 (0.63%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 282 (44.41%) Linux
2 238 (37.48%) Android
2 238 (37.48%) Apple iOS
2 238 (37.48%) Windows
3 40 (6.30%) Alpine Linux
3 40 (6.30%) CentOS
3 40 (6.30%) Debian
4 20 (3.15%) Unix
5 5 (0.79%) VMS
6 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 470 (74.02%) Artificial Intelligence
2 288 (45.35%) User Experience
3 286 (45.04%) Full Stack Development
4 278 (43.78%) Co-Creation
4 278 (43.78%) DevOps
5 251 (39.53%) Design Patterns
6 249 (39.21%) SOLID
7 248 (39.06%) OO
8 241 (37.95%) MVC
8 241 (37.95%) OOP
9 240 (37.80%) Design Thinking
9 240 (37.80%) MVVM
9 240 (37.80%) Web Development
10 239 (37.64%) Responsive Web Design
11 234 (36.85%) Agile
12 228 (35.91%) Mentoring
13 215 (33.86%) Coaching
14 125 (19.69%) API Management
14 125 (19.69%) Generative AI
15 117 (18.43%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 289 (45.51%) JavaScript
2 248 (39.06%) C#
2 248 (39.06%) SQL
3 213 (33.54%) Java
4 163 (25.67%) Python
5 38 (5.98%) Go
6 36 (5.67%) Lua
7 32 (5.04%) TypeScript
8 22 (3.46%) Rust
9 12 (1.89%) Scala
10 11 (1.73%) Solidity
11 6 (0.94%) C++
12 4 (0.63%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.47%) Bash
13 3 (0.47%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.47%) Ruby
14 2 (0.31%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.31%) C
14 2 (0.31%) Erlang
15 1 (0.16%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 43 (6.77%) Degree
2 40 (6.30%) Azure Certification
2 40 (6.30%) MCSA
2 40 (6.30%) MCSE
2 40 (6.30%) Microsoft Certification
3 15 (2.36%) Master's Degree
4 8 (1.26%) CISM
4 8 (1.26%) CISSP
4 8 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.10%) CEH
6 2 (0.31%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.31%) PhD
7 1 (0.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.16%) CCSP
7 1 (0.16%) CISA
7 1 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.16%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.36%) QA
2 9 (1.42%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.79%) SEPA
4 1 (0.16%) IFRS
4 1 (0.16%) SLA
4 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 117 (18.43%) Docker
2 5 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 127 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 114 (17.95%) Terraform
3 58 (9.13%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.47%) Ansible
5 3 (0.47%) Salt
5 3 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.16%) Grafana
Vendors
1 407 (64.09%) IBM
2 393 (61.89%) Red Hat
3 57 (8.98%) Dynatrace
4 47 (7.40%) Oracle
5 12 (1.89%) Microsoft
6 11 (1.73%) Sybase
7 8 (1.26%) Adobe
7 8 (1.26%) Google
7 8 (1.26%) SAP
8 5 (0.79%) Cadence
9 4 (0.63%) Foundry
10 2 (0.31%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.16%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.16%) Databricks