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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 406 541 327
Rank change year-on-year +135 -214 +272
Permanent jobs citing Blockchain 638 501 2,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.51% 1.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.82% 1.18% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 186 195 594
10th Percentile £42,500 £51,750 £55,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £87,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £100,064 £106,875 £110,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £135,000 £132,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -15.15% +22.22% +3.85%

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 35,145 42,330 76,975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.18% 42.69% 47.89%
Number of salaries quoted 23,044 23,098 33,984
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,427 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,719
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 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £109,865 £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 18 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 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 +148 598 £80,001 -8.57% 109
UK excluding London +199 455 £70,000 -15.15% 25
South East +127 177 £70,000 -20.00% 18
London -26 147 £95,000 +5.56% 89
North of England +142 146 £70,000 +55.56% 3
North West +103 134 £70,000 +55.56% 3
Midlands +67 86 £49,000 -10.91% 1
East Midlands - 80 £88,000 - 1
Work from Home -148 73 £72,000 -10.33% 79
South West -28 20 £70,000 +55.56%
East of England +15 12 £80,001 +6.67% 2
Yorkshire +73 9 £95,128 -
Scotland -78 9 £70,576 -
West Midlands +9 6 £28,000 -49.09%
Wales +8 3 £70,000 -
North East -4 3 £35,092 +40.37%
Northern Ireland - 2 £70,000 - 1

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 (5.64%) Camunda
1 36 (5.64%) nginx
2 19 (2.98%) Ethereum
3 7 (1.10%) Hyperledger
4 5 (0.78%) 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 (1.25%) Distributed Ledger
1 8 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.31%) R3 Corda
2 2 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.31%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.16%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.16%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.16%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.16%) SAP SCM
3 1 (0.16%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 408 (63.95%) IBM Cloud
2 309 (48.43%) Azure
3 169 (26.49%) Azure DevOps
4 129 (20.22%) Serverless
5 125 (19.59%) Azure API Management
5 125 (19.59%) Azure Functions
5 125 (19.59%) Azure Logic Apps
5 125 (19.59%) Azure Service Bus
6 110 (17.24%) AWS
7 60 (9.40%) Amazon S3
8 58 (9.09%) Amazon ECR
8 58 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
8 58 (9.09%) OCI
8 58 (9.09%) Route 53
9 48 (7.52%) OpenShift
10 28 (4.39%) GCP
11 24 (3.76%) SaaS
12 16 (2.51%) IaaS
12 16 (2.51%) PaaS
13 9 (1.41%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.94%) HTTP
2 4 (0.63%) Intranet
2 4 (0.63%) IPFS
2 4 (0.63%) Network Security
3 3 (0.47%) Firewall
3 3 (0.47%) Internet
3 3 (0.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 287 (44.98%) MongoDB
2 255 (39.97%) NoSQL
3 250 (39.18%) DB2
4 243 (38.09%) PostgreSQL
5 137 (21.47%) Relational Database
6 59 (9.25%) Amazon RDS
7 36 (5.64%) Oracle Database
8 16 (2.51%) Data Lake
9 15 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (2.04%) SQL Server
11 12 (1.88%) RDBMS
12 7 (1.10%) Big Data
13 3 (0.47%) Redis
14 2 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (0.31%) Metadata
14 2 (0.31%) Power BI
15 1 (0.16%) BigQuery
15 1 (0.16%) Elasticsearch
15 1 (0.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (1.88%) Jenkins
2 8 (1.25%) Git
2 8 (1.25%) Maven
3 4 (0.63%) Hardhat
4 2 (0.31%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.16%) GitKraken
5 1 (0.16%) GitLab
5 1 (0.16%) JetBrains Rider
5 1 (0.16%) ReSharper
5 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 391 (61.29%) Public Sector
2 233 (36.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 96 (15.05%) Finance
4 47 (7.37%) Social Skills
5 31 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (4.70%) Banking
7 26 (4.08%) Marketing
8 22 (3.45%) Games
9 13 (2.04%) Law
10 12 (1.88%) Legal
11 9 (1.41%) Advertising
12 8 (1.25%) Mandarin Language
12 8 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.10%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.63%) Digital Economy
15 3 (0.47%) Back Office
15 3 (0.47%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.47%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.47%) Retail
16 2 (0.31%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 187 (29.31%) Developer
2 149 (23.35%) Full Stack Engineer
3 136 (21.32%) Full Stack Developer
4 125 (19.59%) Azure Developer
5 111 (17.40%) Azure Engineer
6 104 (16.30%) Senior
7 76 (11.91%) DevOps Engineer
8 47 (7.37%) Senior DevOps
8 47 (7.37%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 28 (4.39%) Blockchain Engineer
10 26 (4.08%) Architect
11 22 (3.45%) Blockchain Developer
12 18 (2.82%) Designer
13 17 (2.66%) UX Designer
14 16 (2.51%) Lead
15 15 (2.35%) Enterprise Architect
16 14 (2.19%) AWS Engineer
17 13 (2.04%) Software Developer
17 13 (2.04%) Technical Engineer
18 11 (1.72%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 294 (46.08%) React
2 254 (39.81%) .NET
3 250 (39.18%) HTML
4 248 (38.87%) CSS
5 244 (38.24%) REST
5 244 (38.24%) Web Services
6 242 (37.93%) Vue
7 241 (37.77%) ASP.NET
7 241 (37.77%) ASP.NET Core
8 240 (37.62%) AngularJS
9 238 (37.30%) Backbone.js
9 238 (37.30%) Ember.js
9 238 (37.30%) jQuery
9 238 (37.30%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 177 (27.74%) Node.js
11 49 (7.68%) web3js
12 36 (5.64%) KeystoneJS
12 36 (5.64%) Swagger
13 30 (4.70%) Smart Contracts
14 18 (2.82%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 408 (63.95%) Hybrid Cloud
2 271 (42.48%) Algorithms
3 244 (38.24%) Data Structures
4 215 (33.70%) e-Learning
5 52 (8.15%) Web3
6 49 (7.68%) Distributed Systems
7 22 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
8 21 (3.29%) IoT
9 15 (2.35%) Mainframe
10 11 (1.72%) NFT
10 11 (1.72%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.72%) Robotics
11 9 (1.41%) Product Ownership
12 8 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
13 7 (1.10%) Cloud Native
13 7 (1.10%) PKI
14 5 (0.78%) Social Media
15 4 (0.63%) Cybercrime
15 4 (0.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 3 (0.47%) Augmented Reality
Operating Systems
1 280 (43.89%) Linux
2 238 (37.30%) Android
2 238 (37.30%) Apple iOS
2 238 (37.30%) Windows
3 40 (6.27%) Alpine Linux
3 40 (6.27%) CentOS
3 40 (6.27%) Debian
4 16 (2.51%) Unix
5 5 (0.78%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 480 (75.24%) Artificial Intelligence
2 290 (45.45%) User Experience
3 285 (44.67%) Full Stack Development
4 278 (43.57%) Co-Creation
5 276 (43.26%) DevOps
6 251 (39.34%) Design Patterns
7 249 (39.03%) SOLID
8 248 (38.87%) OO
9 241 (37.77%) MVC
9 241 (37.77%) OOP
10 240 (37.62%) Design Thinking
10 240 (37.62%) MVVM
10 240 (37.62%) Web Development
11 239 (37.46%) Responsive Web Design
12 229 (35.89%) Mentoring
13 224 (35.11%) Agile
14 216 (33.86%) Coaching
15 125 (19.59%) API Management
15 125 (19.59%) Generative AI
16 115 (18.03%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 290 (45.45%) JavaScript
2 249 (39.03%) SQL
3 246 (38.56%) C#
4 208 (32.60%) Java
5 158 (24.76%) Python
6 36 (5.64%) Lua
7 35 (5.49%) Go
7 35 (5.49%) TypeScript
8 18 (2.82%) Rust
9 16 (2.51%) Scala
10 11 (1.72%) Solidity
11 6 (0.94%) C++
12 4 (0.63%) Erlang
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
15 1 (0.16%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 40 (6.27%) Azure Certification
1 40 (6.27%) Degree
1 40 (6.27%) MCSA
1 40 (6.27%) MCSE
1 40 (6.27%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (1.72%) Master's Degree
3 8 (1.25%) CISM
3 8 (1.25%) CISSP
4 7 (1.10%) CEH
5 5 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.31%) PhD
7 1 (0.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.16%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.16%) CCSP
7 1 (0.16%) CISA
7 1 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.16%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.16%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.04%) QA
2 11 (1.72%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.63%) SEPA
4 1 (0.16%) IFRS
4 1 (0.16%) SLA
4 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 109 (17.08%) Docker
2 5 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 121 (18.97%) Kubernetes
2 112 (17.55%) Terraform
3 58 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.47%) Ansible
5 3 (0.47%) Salt
5 3 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 408 (63.95%) IBM
2 394 (61.76%) Red Hat
3 58 (9.09%) Dynatrace
4 48 (7.52%) Oracle
5 12 (1.88%) Microsoft
5 12 (1.88%) Sybase
6 10 (1.57%) Google
7 8 (1.25%) Adobe
7 8 (1.25%) SAP
8 5 (0.78%) Cadence
9 4 (0.63%) Foundry
10 2 (0.31%) Databricks
10 2 (0.31%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.16%) Alteryx