Smart Contracts Jobs

Smart Contract
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Smart Contracts skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Smart Contracts over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 868 906 978
Rank change year-on-year +38 +72 -34
Permanent jobs citing Smart Contracts 36 13 285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.033% 0.014% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.16% 0.048% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 29 4 34
10th Percentile £42,500 £88,000 £65,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £92,500 £80,312
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £102,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% +7.89% +5.56%
75th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £134,375
90th Percentile £128,500 £133,500 £140,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,576 - £100,000
% change year-on-year - - +56.86%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Smart Contracts falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 22,074 26,882 71,165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.09% 29.07% 41.19%
Number of salaries quoted 16,295 17,588 29,917
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £37,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

Smart Contracts
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Smart Contracts in the UK

Smart Contracts
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Smart Contracts.

Salary trend for Smart Contracts in the UK

Smart Contracts
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Smart Contracts over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Smart Contracts in the UK

Smart Contracts
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Smart Contracts within the UK over the 6 months to 13 June 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 +53 35 £85,000 -17.07% 16
London +107 25 £85,000 -15.00% 13
Work from Home +36 15 £115,000 +12.20% 7
UK excluding London - 4 £70,576 - 3
North of England - 2 £70,576 -
North West - 2 £70,576 -
East Midlands - 1 £88,000 -
Midlands - 1 £88,000 -
South East - 1 £60,000 - 1

Smart Contracts
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 13 (36.11%) Ethereum
2 4 (11.11%) Hyperledger
2 4 (11.11%) OpenZeppelin
3 1 (2.78%) Hedera
3 1 (2.78%) IIS
Business Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.67%) WeChat
2 3 (8.33%) GCP
3 2 (5.56%) Azure
4 1 (2.78%) AWS
4 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.78%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.11%) IPFS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (19.44%) Hardhat
2 1 (2.78%) Git
2 1 (2.78%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (41.67%) Finance
2 10 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 7 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (16.67%) Mandarin Language
5 4 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (5.56%) Banking
7 1 (2.78%) Legal
7 1 (2.78%) Marketing
7 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (50.00%) Developer
2 8 (22.22%) Blockchain Developer
3 7 (19.44%) Blockchain Engineer
3 7 (19.44%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 5 (13.89%) Product Owner
4 5 (13.89%) Senior
4 5 (13.89%) Technical Product Owner
5 3 (8.33%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Full Stack Developer
6 2 (5.56%) React Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.78%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Head of Digital
7 1 (2.78%) Head of Security
7 1 (2.78%) IT Manager
7 1 (2.78%) IT Programme Manager
7 1 (2.78%) Programme Manager
7 1 (2.78%) Scala Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Senior Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (47.22%) web3js
2 13 (36.11%) React
3 8 (22.22%) Node.js
4 6 (16.67%) GraphQL
5 5 (13.89%) ERC20
5 5 (13.89%) Truffle
5 5 (13.89%) WebSockets
6 4 (11.11%) REST
7 3 (8.33%) ethers.js
8 2 (5.56%) AngularJS
8 2 (5.56%) CSS
8 2 (5.56%) HTML
8 2 (5.56%) Next.js
8 2 (5.56%) zkSync
9 1 (2.78%) CSS3
9 1 (2.78%) HTML5
9 1 (2.78%) jQuery
9 1 (2.78%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 31 (86.11%) Blockchain
2 16 (44.44%) Web3
3 10 (27.78%) Algorithms
4 6 (16.67%) Data Structures
5 5 (13.89%) Product Ownership
6 4 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (11.11%) NFT
6 4 (11.11%) Onboarding
7 3 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (8.33%) Mobile App
7 3 (8.33%) Public Cloud
8 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (5.56%) Virtual Team
9 1 (2.78%) Augmented Reality
9 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (2.78%) Virtual Reality
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (41.67%) User Experience
2 13 (36.11%) Computer Science
3 11 (30.56%) Agile
4 10 (27.78%) DeFi
5 9 (25.00%) Cryptography
5 9 (25.00%) Front End Development
6 8 (22.22%) Open Source
6 8 (22.22%) Roadmaps
6 8 (22.22%) Software Engineering
7 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (16.67%) Fintech
9 5 (13.89%) Cryptocurrency
9 5 (13.89%) Fund Management
9 5 (13.89%) Market Research
9 5 (13.89%) Product Management
9 5 (13.89%) Product Requirements
9 5 (13.89%) Product Roadmap
9 5 (13.89%) Product Strategy
9 5 (13.89%) Requirements Gathering
9 5 (13.89%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 13 (36.11%) Solidity
1 13 (36.11%) TypeScript
2 12 (33.33%) Rust
3 9 (25.00%) Python
4 8 (22.22%) Java
5 6 (16.67%) Go
5 6 (16.67%) SQL
6 5 (13.89%) JavaScript
7 3 (8.33%) C#
7 3 (8.33%) C++
8 2 (5.56%) Kotlin
9 1 (2.78%) Scala
9 1 (2.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (19.44%) Degree
2 5 (13.89%) Master's Degree
3 2 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) QA
2 4 (11.11%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 7 (19.44%) Foundry
2 2 (5.56%) Google
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft