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

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 391 538 330
Rank change year-on-year +147 -208 +279
Permanent jobs citing Blockchain 641 522 1,921
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.65% 0.51% 1.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.83% 1.20% 2.56%
Number of salaries quoted 191 210 593
10th Percentile £42,500 £52,375 £55,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £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 £107,500 £110,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £135,000 £135,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,576 £76,250 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.44% +12.96% +5.88%

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 35,055 43,406 74,907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.34% 42.74% 47.58%
Number of salaries quoted 23,055 23,484 33,996
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
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 £84,056
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £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 8 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 8 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 +142 601 £80,001 -8.57% 116
UK excluding London +216 462 £70,576 -7.44% 15
South East +137 177 £70,000 -20.00% 3
North of England +132 147 £70,000 +55.56% 2
London -31 145 £95,000 +5.56% 91
North West +103 134 £70,000 +55.56% 2
Midlands +81 86 £49,000 -10.91% 3
East Midlands - 80 £88,000 - 2
Work from Home -149 76 £70,576 -12.10% 72
South West -25 23 £70,576 +17.63% 2
East of England +24 13 £80,001 +6.67% 3
Scotland -72 11 £70,576 -
Yorkshire +71 10 £95,128 -
West Midlands +9 6 £28,000 -49.09% 1
Wales +10 3 £70,000 -
North East 0 3 £35,092 +40.37%
Northern Ireland - 2 £70,000 - 2

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 (5.62%) Camunda
1 36 (5.62%) nginx
2 19 (2.96%) Ethereum
3 7 (1.09%) Hyperledger
4 5 (0.78%) Solana
5 4 (0.62%) 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 (63.65%) IBM Cloud
2 313 (48.83%) Azure
3 169 (26.37%) Azure DevOps
4 129 (20.12%) Serverless
5 125 (19.50%) Azure API Management
5 125 (19.50%) Azure Functions
5 125 (19.50%) Azure Logic Apps
5 125 (19.50%) Azure Service Bus
6 113 (17.63%) AWS
7 60 (9.36%) Amazon S3
8 58 (9.05%) Amazon ECR
8 58 (9.05%) Amazon EKS
8 58 (9.05%) OCI
8 58 (9.05%) Route 53
9 48 (7.49%) OpenShift
10 31 (4.84%) GCP
11 28 (4.37%) SaaS
12 20 (3.12%) IaaS
12 20 (3.12%) PaaS
13 9 (1.40%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.62%) HTTP
1 4 (0.62%) Intranet
1 4 (0.62%) IPFS
1 4 (0.62%) Network Security
2 3 (0.47%) Firewall
2 3 (0.47%) Internet
2 3 (0.47%) VPN
3 1 (0.16%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 287 (44.77%) MongoDB
2 259 (40.41%) NoSQL
3 250 (39.00%) DB2
4 243 (37.91%) PostgreSQL
5 137 (21.37%) Relational Database
6 59 (9.20%) Amazon RDS
7 36 (5.62%) Oracle Database
8 20 (3.12%) Data Lake
9 19 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (2.03%) SQL Server
11 12 (1.87%) RDBMS
12 10 (1.56%) 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 13 (2.03%) Jenkins
2 8 (1.25%) Git
2 8 (1.25%) Maven
3 4 (0.62%) 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 (61.00%) Public Sector
2 233 (36.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 104 (16.22%) Finance
4 48 (7.49%) Social Skills
5 37 (5.77%) Banking
6 31 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (4.06%) Marketing
8 20 (3.12%) Games
9 13 (2.03%) Law
9 13 (2.03%) Legal
10 10 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.40%) Advertising
12 8 (1.25%) Mandarin Language
13 7 (1.09%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.78%) Retail
15 4 (0.62%) Digital Economy
16 3 (0.47%) Back Office
16 3 (0.47%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.47%) Investment Banking
17 2 (0.31%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 182 (28.39%) Developer
2 149 (23.24%) Full Stack Engineer
3 136 (21.22%) Full Stack Developer
4 125 (19.50%) Azure Developer
5 111 (17.32%) Azure Engineer
6 103 (16.07%) Senior
7 77 (12.01%) DevOps Engineer
8 48 (7.49%) Senior DevOps
8 48 (7.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 33 (5.15%) Architect
10 28 (4.37%) Blockchain Engineer
11 20 (3.12%) Blockchain Developer
12 19 (2.96%) Enterprise Architect
13 18 (2.81%) Designer
14 17 (2.65%) UX Designer
15 16 (2.50%) Lead
16 14 (2.18%) AWS Engineer
17 13 (2.03%) Software Developer
17 13 (2.03%) Technical Engineer
18 10 (1.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 292 (45.55%) React
2 254 (39.63%) .NET
3 250 (39.00%) HTML
4 248 (38.69%) CSS
5 245 (38.22%) Web Services
6 244 (38.07%) REST
7 242 (37.75%) Vue
8 241 (37.60%) ASP.NET
8 241 (37.60%) ASP.NET Core
9 240 (37.44%) AngularJS
10 238 (37.13%) Backbone.js
10 238 (37.13%) Ember.js
10 238 (37.13%) jQuery
10 238 (37.13%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 175 (27.30%) Node.js
12 43 (6.71%) web3js
13 36 (5.62%) KeystoneJS
13 36 (5.62%) Swagger
14 31 (4.84%) Smart Contracts
15 19 (2.96%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 408 (63.65%) Hybrid Cloud
2 271 (42.28%) Algorithms
3 244 (38.07%) Data Structures
4 215 (33.54%) e-Learning
5 49 (7.64%) Distributed Systems
6 46 (7.18%) Web3
7 22 (3.43%) Greenfield Project
8 19 (2.96%) IoT
8 19 (2.96%) Mainframe
9 14 (2.18%) Robotics
10 9 (1.40%) NFT
10 9 (1.40%) Onboarding
10 9 (1.40%) Product Ownership
11 8 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (1.09%) Cloud Native
12 7 (1.09%) PKI
13 5 (0.78%) Social Media
14 4 (0.62%) Cybercrime
14 4 (0.62%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 3 (0.47%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 282 (43.99%) Linux
2 238 (37.13%) Android
2 238 (37.13%) Apple iOS
2 238 (37.13%) Windows
3 40 (6.24%) Alpine Linux
3 40 (6.24%) CentOS
3 40 (6.24%) Debian
4 20 (3.12%) Unix
5 5 (0.78%) VMS
6 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 482 (75.20%) Artificial Intelligence
2 288 (44.93%) User Experience
3 285 (44.46%) Full Stack Development
4 278 (43.37%) Co-Creation
5 277 (43.21%) DevOps
6 251 (39.16%) Design Patterns
7 249 (38.85%) SOLID
8 248 (38.69%) OO
9 241 (37.60%) MVC
9 241 (37.60%) OOP
10 240 (37.44%) Design Thinking
10 240 (37.44%) MVVM
10 240 (37.44%) Web Development
11 239 (37.29%) Responsive Web Design
12 231 (36.04%) Agile
13 229 (35.73%) Mentoring
14 216 (33.70%) Coaching
15 125 (19.50%) API Management
15 125 (19.50%) Generative AI
16 116 (18.10%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 288 (44.93%) JavaScript
2 249 (38.85%) SQL
3 247 (38.53%) C#
4 211 (32.92%) Java
5 159 (24.80%) Python
6 36 (5.62%) Go
6 36 (5.62%) Lua
7 34 (5.30%) TypeScript
8 18 (2.81%) Rust
9 15 (2.34%) Scala
10 11 (1.72%) Solidity
11 6 (0.94%) C++
12 4 (0.62%) 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
14 2 (0.31%) Erlang
15 1 (0.16%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 41 (6.40%) Degree
2 40 (6.24%) Azure Certification
2 40 (6.24%) MCSA
2 40 (6.24%) MCSE
2 40 (6.24%) Microsoft Certification
3 12 (1.87%) Master's Degree
4 8 (1.25%) CISM
4 8 (1.25%) CISSP
5 7 (1.09%) CEH
6 6 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.31%) PhD
8 1 (0.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.16%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.16%) CCSP
8 1 (0.16%) CISA
8 1 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.16%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.16%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.18%) QA
2 9 (1.40%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.62%) SEPA
4 1 (0.16%) IFRS
4 1 (0.16%) SLA
4 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 112 (17.47%) Docker
2 5 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 123 (19.19%) Kubernetes
2 111 (17.32%) Terraform
3 59 (9.20%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.47%) Ansible
5 3 (0.47%) Salt
5 3 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.16%) Grafana
Vendors
1 408 (63.65%) IBM
2 394 (61.47%) Red Hat
3 58 (9.05%) Dynatrace
4 48 (7.49%) Oracle
5 12 (1.87%) Microsoft
5 12 (1.87%) Sybase
6 8 (1.25%) Adobe
6 8 (1.25%) Google
6 8 (1.25%) SAP
7 5 (0.78%) Cadence
8 4 (0.62%) Foundry
9 2 (0.31%) Databricks
9 2 (0.31%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.16%) Alteryx