Cryptocurrency
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Cryptocurrency skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cryptocurrency over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 827 893 763
Rank change year-on-year +66 -130 +51
Permanent jobs citing Cryptocurrency 63 84 535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.063% 0.085% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.074% 0.089% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 52 19 232
10th Percentile £59,625 £61,250 £70,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £102,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -12.20% +28.13%
75th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £120,313
90th Percentile £129,000 £126,750 £142,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% +25.00% -4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Cryptocurrency is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Cryptocurrency
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cryptocurrency in the UK

Cryptocurrency
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cryptocurrency in the UK

Cryptocurrency
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cryptocurrency over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cryptocurrency in the UK

Cryptocurrency
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cryptocurrency within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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 +60 52 £85,000 -5.56% 59
London +65 34 £105,000 +16.67% 55
Work from Home +18 17 £86,500 -3.89% 31
UK excluding London -16 16 £70,000 +12.00% 12
South East +8 6 £62,500 - 9
North of England - 4 £70,000 - 2
Yorkshire - 2 £70,000 -
Midlands - 2 £79,000 -
North West - 2 £70,000 -
Wales +6 1 £70,000 -
East Midlands - 1 £88,000 -
South West - 1 £70,000 -
West Midlands - 1 £70,000 -
Scotland - 1 £70,000 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £70,000 -

Cryptocurrency
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 5 (7.94%) Ethereum
2 4 (6.35%) Apache
3 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.59%) Hyperledger
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 17 (26.98%) AWS
2 9 (14.29%) Azure
3 5 (7.94%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (7.94%) Amazon S3
3 5 (7.94%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (7.94%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (7.94%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (7.94%) Serverless
4 4 (6.35%) SaaS
5 2 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (3.17%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (1.59%) GCP
6 1 (1.59%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.59%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.35%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (6.35%) Apache Arrow
1 4 (6.35%) Parquet
1 4 (6.35%) Tick Data
2 2 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (4.76%) GitLab
1 3 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (38.10%) Finance
2 9 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.94%) Financial Institution
3 5 (7.94%) Games
4 4 (6.35%) Banking
5 2 (3.17%) Marketing
6 1 (1.59%) Front Office
6 1 (1.59%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.59%) Legal
6 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (44.44%) Senior
2 17 (26.98%) Blockchain Engineer
3 15 (23.81%) Developer
4 8 (12.70%) Senior Developer
5 5 (7.94%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (7.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Rust Developer
6 4 (6.35%) Scala Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Senior Scala Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Java Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Lead
7 3 (4.76%) Low Latency Java Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Python Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Quantitative Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (3.17%) Architect
8 2 (3.17%) Backend Developer
8 2 (3.17%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.94%) Smart Contracts
2 4 (6.35%) Pandas
3 3 (4.76%) GraphQL
3 3 (4.76%) gRPC
3 3 (4.76%) Kafka
3 3 (4.76%) Spring
3 3 (4.76%) Spring Boot
4 2 (3.17%) web3js
5 1 (1.59%) CSS
5 1 (1.59%) CSS3
5 1 (1.59%) ERC20
5 1 (1.59%) HTML
5 1 (1.59%) HTML5
5 1 (1.59%) Node.js
5 1 (1.59%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.59%) React
5 1 (1.59%) Truffle
5 1 (1.59%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 30 (47.62%) Blockchain
2 23 (36.51%) Greenfield Project
3 17 (26.98%) Algorithms
4 7 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (4.76%) Digital Currency
5 3 (4.76%) Fixed Income
6 2 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.17%) Derivative
6 2 (3.17%) Web3
7 1 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.59%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.59%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.59%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.94%) Windows
2 3 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (38.10%) Software Engineering
2 15 (23.81%) Mathematics
3 14 (22.22%) Physics
4 13 (20.63%) Fintech
5 10 (15.87%) DeFi
6 9 (14.29%) Low Latency
6 9 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (12.70%) DevOps
8 7 (11.11%) Analytics
8 7 (11.11%) CI/CD
8 7 (11.11%) Containerisation
8 7 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (9.52%) High Availability
10 5 (7.94%) Cryptography
10 5 (7.94%) Data Engineering
10 5 (7.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 5 (7.94%) Proprietary Trading
11 4 (6.35%) Cloud Security
11 4 (6.35%) Infrastructure as Code
11 4 (6.35%) Quantitative Trading
Programming Languages
1 20 (31.75%) Go
2 14 (22.22%) Python
3 10 (15.87%) Java
4 8 (12.70%) PowerShell
4 8 (12.70%) Scala
5 6 (9.52%) C++
5 6 (9.52%) Rust
6 4 (6.35%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.76%) Bash
7 3 (4.76%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.17%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.59%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 3 (4.76%) AWS Certification
1 3 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 3 (4.76%) Degree
2 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (17.46%) Docker
2 5 (7.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (23.81%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (15.87%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.52%) Google
3 1 (1.59%) Cisco