Decentralised Finance (DeFi)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for DeFi skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DeFi 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 867 965 1112
Rank change year-on-year +98 +147 -221
Permanent jobs citing DeFi 23 12 132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.012% 0.082%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.027% 0.013% 0.086%
Number of salaries quoted 21 4 26
10th Percentile £57,500 - £65,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £56,250 £80,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £83,750 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.34% -27.17% +58.62%
75th Percentile £117,500 £110,625 £140,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £111,750 -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

DeFi 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%

DeFi
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DeFi in the UK

DeFi
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for DeFi in the UK

DeFi
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for DeFi in the UK

DeFi
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DeFi 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
London +120 20 £110,000 +76.00% 15
England +98 20 £110,000 +76.00% 15
Work from Home +78 13 £115,000 +37.31% 6

DeFi
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 (21.74%) Ethereum
2 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (21.74%) AWS
2 2 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (8.70%) Amazon S3
2 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (8.70%) AWS Fargate
2 2 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (8.70%) Serverless
3 1 (4.35%) Azure
3 1 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (4.35%) GCP
3 1 (4.35%) SaaS
3 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (4.35%) Tableau
General
1 9 (39.13%) Finance
2 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Legal
3 1 (4.35%) Marketing
3 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (56.52%) Developer
2 7 (30.43%) Senior
3 5 (21.74%) Blockchain Developer
4 4 (17.39%) Blockchain Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Rust Developer
4 4 (17.39%) Senior Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Junior
5 3 (13.04%) Junior Developer
6 2 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Junior Quantitative Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Quantitative Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Graduate Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Graduate Software Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Scala Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) Smart Contracts
2 6 (26.09%) REST
3 5 (21.74%) WebSockets
4 1 (4.35%) .NET
4 1 (4.35%) CSS
4 1 (4.35%) CSS3
4 1 (4.35%) HTML
4 1 (4.35%) HTML5
4 1 (4.35%) Node.js
4 1 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (4.35%) React
4 1 (4.35%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (4.35%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (56.52%) Blockchain
2 5 (21.74%) Data Structures
3 2 (8.70%) Algorithms
3 2 (8.70%) Web3
4 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Cryptocurrency
2 7 (30.43%) Computer Science
2 7 (30.43%) Software Engineering
3 6 (26.09%) Low Latency
4 4 (17.39%) API Design
4 4 (17.39%) DevOps
4 4 (17.39%) Fintech
4 4 (17.39%) Open Source
4 4 (17.39%) Open Source Development
5 3 (13.04%) Algorithmic Trading
5 3 (13.04%) High-Frequency Trading
6 2 (8.70%) CI/CD
6 2 (8.70%) Clean Code
6 2 (8.70%) Data Engineering
6 2 (8.70%) Event-Driven
6 2 (8.70%) Full Stack Development
6 2 (8.70%) High Availability
6 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (8.70%) Microservices
6 2 (8.70%) Proprietary Trading
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) Rust
2 6 (26.09%) Python
3 5 (21.74%) Java
4 4 (17.39%) Go
5 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.35%) C
6 1 (4.35%) C#
6 1 (4.35%) Ruby
6 1 (4.35%) Scala
6 1 (4.35%) SQL
6 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Degree
2 3 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.35%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.70%) Terraform
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Google
2 1 (4.35%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) Qualys
2 1 (4.35%) Zscaler