Blockchain Contracts

Blockchain
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blockchain in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Blockchain over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 525 603 634
Rank change year-on-year +78 +31 -20
Contract jobs citing Blockchain 77 92 224
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.17% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.59% 0.50% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 62 187
10th Percentile £425 £441 £425
25th Percentile £488 £538 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +6.67%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £744
90th Percentile £788 £810 £860
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £725 £557
% change year-on-year -32.76% +30.21% +11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £92.50 £56.50
Median hourly rate - £95.00 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year - +61.02% -
75th Percentile - £97.50 £61.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £95.00 £59.00
% change year-on-year - +61.02% -

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,984 18,455 29,163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.97% 33.21% 33.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,299 12,703 20,498
10th Percentile £274 £310 £315
25th Percentile £413 £444 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £660 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 928 608 691
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.24 £10.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.58 £22.26 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +59.85% -17.51% +7.92%
75th Percentile £61.30 £59.06 £50.39
90th Percentile £71.44 £75.00 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £22.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +59.09% +2.33% -4.44%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Blockchain.

Daily rate trend for Blockchain in the UK

Blockchain
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Blockchain over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Blockchain in the UK

Blockchain
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Blockchain.

Hourly rate trend for Blockchain in the UK

Blockchain
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Blockchain within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +74 68 £625 -3.85% 91
London +58 53 £650 +2.97% 75
Work from Home +101 41 £550 -15.38% 64
UK excluding London +46 11 £488 -32.76% 14
North of England - 5 £463 - 2
South West +14 4 - - 2
North West - 4 £463 - 2
Midlands +22 1 £550 -
South East +13 1 £550 -24.14% 7
Yorkshire - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £550 -

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 5 (6.49%) Ethereum
2 3 (3.90%) Hyperledger
3 1 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.30%) CMS
3 1 (1.30%) MetaMask
3 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.30%) Solana
3 1 (1.30%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.30%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 19 (24.68%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (3.90%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 11 (14.29%) AWS
2 9 (11.69%) GCP
3 4 (5.19%) OCI
4 3 (3.90%) WhatsApp
5 2 (2.60%) Azure
5 2 (2.60%) GitHub
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (1.30%) Contentful
6 1 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.30%) IaaS
6 1 (1.30%) PaaS
6 1 (1.30%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.79%) Internet
2 1 (1.30%) Firewall
2 1 (1.30%) Network Security
2 1 (1.30%) SSH
2 1 (1.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.49%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.19%) Data Lake
2 4 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.60%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.30%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (5.19%) Git
2 3 (3.90%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.60%) GitLab
4 1 (1.30%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.30%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.30%) Gatling
4 1 (1.30%) Jaeger
4 1 (1.30%) JMeter
4 1 (1.30%) Selenium
4 1 (1.30%) Spinnaker
4 1 (1.30%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.30%) WebDriver
General
1 25 (32.47%) Social Skills
2 22 (28.57%) Finance
3 8 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.19%) Banking
4 4 (5.19%) Financial Institution
4 4 (5.19%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.19%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.60%) Marketing
5 2 (2.60%) Public Speaking
6 1 (1.30%) Arabic Language
6 1 (1.30%) Games
6 1 (1.30%) Law
Job Titles
1 22 (28.57%) Architect
2 19 (24.68%) Developer
3 12 (15.58%) Solutions Architect
4 11 (14.29%) Blockchain Developer
5 10 (12.99%) Blockchain Architect
5 10 (12.99%) Blockchain Engineer
6 8 (10.39%) Senior
7 7 (9.09%) Lead
8 5 (6.49%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) Product Manager
9 4 (5.19%) Data Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.90%) Blockchain Lead
10 3 (3.90%) Cryptography Engineer
10 3 (3.90%) JavaScript Engineer
11 2 (2.60%) Applications Architect
11 2 (2.60%) Digital Architect
11 2 (2.60%) ERP Architect
11 2 (2.60%) IT Architect
11 2 (2.60%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (16.88%) web3js
2 12 (15.58%) Node.js
3 10 (12.99%) Smart Contracts
4 9 (11.69%) React
5 6 (7.79%) .NET
6 5 (6.49%) OpenID
7 4 (5.19%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (3.90%) AngularJS
8 3 (3.90%) CSS
8 3 (3.90%) HTML
9 2 (2.60%) ASP.NET
9 2 (2.60%) Django
9 2 (2.60%) GraphQL
9 2 (2.60%) Hugging Face
9 2 (2.60%) JSON
9 2 (2.60%) Nuxt
9 2 (2.60%) Symfony
9 2 (2.60%) Vue
10 1 (1.30%) FIX Protocol
10 1 (1.30%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 20 (25.97%) Web3
2 9 (11.69%) IoT
3 7 (9.09%) Distributed Applications
4 6 (7.79%) CBDC
5 5 (6.49%) Algorithms
6 4 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (3.90%) Data Structures
7 3 (3.90%) NFT
8 2 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (2.60%) Product Ownership
9 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (1.30%) PKI
9 1 (1.30%) Sports Betting
9 1 (1.30%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.19%) Linux
2 2 (2.60%) Android
3 1 (1.30%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (19.48%) Computer Science
2 14 (18.18%) Cryptography
2 14 (18.18%) Fintech
2 14 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (16.88%) Software Engineering
4 10 (12.99%) DeFi
5 9 (11.69%) Agile
5 9 (11.69%) Artificial Intelligence
6 8 (10.39%) API Development
6 8 (10.39%) Data Science
6 8 (10.39%) DevOps
6 8 (10.39%) Microservices
7 7 (9.09%) Machine Learning
8 6 (7.79%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (7.79%) Mathematics
8 6 (7.79%) Translating Business Requirements
9 5 (6.49%) Decision-Making
9 5 (6.49%) Strategic Thinking
9 5 (6.49%) Use Case
9 5 (6.49%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 11 (14.29%) Java
2 10 (12.99%) JavaScript
2 10 (12.99%) Python
3 9 (11.69%) C++
4 6 (7.79%) TypeScript
5 5 (6.49%) Solidity
6 3 (3.90%) Clojure
6 3 (3.90%) SQL
7 2 (2.60%) DAML
7 2 (2.60%) Go
7 2 (2.60%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.60%) PHP
7 2 (2.60%) Rust
8 1 (1.30%) Bash
8 1 (1.30%) C#
8 1 (1.30%) Perl
8 1 (1.30%) Ruby
8 1 (1.30%) Scala
8 1 (1.30%) Swift
Qualifications
1 15 (19.48%) Degree
2 12 (15.58%) SC Cleared
2 12 (15.58%) Security Cleared
3 11 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.19%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.60%) PhD
6 1 (1.30%) CCIE
6 1 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.30%) CISM
6 1 (1.30%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.60%) QA
2 1 (1.30%) NIST
2 1 (1.30%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (6.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (11.69%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.19%) Terraform
3 3 (3.90%) Grafana
4 2 (2.60%) Ansible
4 2 (2.60%) Argo
4 2 (2.60%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (7.79%) Oracle
2 2 (2.60%) SAP
3 1 (1.30%) Finsemble