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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 502 589 609
Rank change year-on-year +87 +20 +10
Contract jobs citing Blockchain 77 95 233
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.17% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.59% 0.51% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 62 192
10th Percentile £433 £441 £425
25th Percentile £488 £538 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £644 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% +7.29% +6.67%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £725
90th Percentile £788 £806 £836
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £725 £566
% change year-on-year -34.48% +28.12% +13.18%
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 12,955 18,790 29,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.06% 33.33% 33.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,316 12,953 20,440
10th Percentile £270 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £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 923 610 691
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.20 £10.63 £17.34
Median hourly rate £35.00 £22.00 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +59.09% -18.46% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £75.00 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £21.88 £21.30
% change year-on-year +60.00% +2.70% -7.39%

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 2 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 2 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 +72 67 £638 - 137
London +71 53 £650 +4.00% 110
Work from Home +95 40 £625 -3.85% 83
UK excluding London +51 10 £475 -34.48% 22
South West +12 4 - - 4
North of England - 4 £450 - 7
North West - 3 £450 - 7
Midlands +25 1 £550 -
South East +8 1 £550 -24.14% 5
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 2 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.30%) CMS
4 1 (1.30%) MetaMask
4 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.30%) Solana
4 1 (1.30%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.30%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 21 (27.27%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (3.90%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 11 (14.29%) AWS
2 10 (12.99%) GCP
3 4 (5.19%) OCI
4 3 (3.90%) Azure
4 3 (3.90%) WhatsApp
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 21 (27.27%) 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%) Public Speaking
6 1 (1.30%) Arabic Language
6 1 (1.30%) Games
6 1 (1.30%) Law
6 1 (1.30%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (28.57%) Architect
2 21 (27.27%) Developer
3 12 (15.58%) Blockchain Developer
3 12 (15.58%) Solutions Architect
4 11 (14.29%) Blockchain Engineer
5 10 (12.99%) Blockchain Architect
6 7 (9.09%) Lead
6 7 (9.09%) Senior
7 5 (6.49%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Cryptography Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Product Manager
8 4 (5.19%) Senior Developer
9 3 (3.90%) Blockchain Lead
10 2 (2.60%) Applications Architect
10 2 (2.60%) Digital Architect
10 2 (2.60%) ERP Architect
10 2 (2.60%) IT Architect
10 2 (2.60%) JavaScript Engineer
10 2 (2.60%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (15.58%) Smart Contracts
2 11 (14.29%) Node.js
2 11 (14.29%) web3js
3 9 (11.69%) React
4 6 (7.79%) .NET
5 5 (6.49%) OpenID
6 4 (5.19%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (3.90%) AngularJS
7 3 (3.90%) CSS
7 3 (3.90%) HTML
8 2 (2.60%) ASP.NET
8 2 (2.60%) Django
8 2 (2.60%) GraphQL
8 2 (2.60%) JSON
8 2 (2.60%) Nuxt
8 2 (2.60%) Symfony
8 2 (2.60%) Vue
9 1 (1.30%) FIX Protocol
9 1 (1.30%) jQuery
9 1 (1.30%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 18 (23.38%) Web3
2 9 (11.69%) Distributed Applications
2 9 (11.69%) IoT
3 6 (7.79%) CBDC
4 5 (6.49%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.90%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.60%) NFT
6 2 (2.60%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.30%) PKI
7 1 (1.30%) Sports Betting
7 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 16 (20.78%) Cryptography
2 15 (19.48%) Computer Science
3 14 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (16.88%) Fintech
5 12 (15.58%) Software Engineering
6 9 (11.69%) Agile
6 9 (11.69%) DeFi
7 8 (10.39%) API Development
7 8 (10.39%) Artificial Intelligence
7 8 (10.39%) Data Science
7 8 (10.39%) DevOps
7 8 (10.39%) Microservices
8 6 (7.79%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (7.79%) Machine Learning
8 6 (7.79%) Mathematics
8 6 (7.79%) Translating Business Requirements
9 5 (6.49%) Decision-Making
9 5 (6.49%) Roadmaps
9 5 (6.49%) Use Case
9 5 (6.49%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 14 (18.18%) Java
2 13 (16.88%) Python
3 12 (15.58%) C++
4 9 (11.69%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.49%) Solidity
5 5 (6.49%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.90%) Clojure
6 3 (3.90%) SQL
7 2 (2.60%) C#
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%) 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