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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 401 542 322
Rank change year-on-year +141 -220 +295
Permanent jobs citing Blockchain 638 504 2,055
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.51% 1.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.81% 1.19% 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 186 195 599
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 £135,000
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 35,155 42,392 77,992
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.18% 42.62% 47.91%
Number of salaries quoted 23,026 23,184 34,267
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,483 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,625
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 20 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 20 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 +148 597 £80,001 -8.57% 126
UK excluding London +216 455 £70,000 -15.15% 32
South East +136 177 £70,000 -20.00% 19
North of England +125 146 £70,000 +55.56% 6
London -30 146 £95,000 +5.56% 99
North West +92 134 £70,000 +55.56% 6
Midlands +70 86 £49,000 -10.91% 4
East Midlands - 80 £88,000 - 4
Work from Home -135 73 £72,000 -10.33% 87
South West -24 20 £70,000 +55.56%
East of England +17 12 £80,001 +6.67% 2
Yorkshire +72 9 £95,128 -
Scotland -80 9 £70,576 -
West Midlands +10 6 £28,000 -49.09%
Wales +10 3 £70,000 -
North East +1 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 46 (7.21%) Social Skills
5 31 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (4.70%) Banking
7 26 (4.08%) Marketing
8 23 (3.61%) 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
1 188 (29.47%) 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 23 (3.61%) 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
6 243 (38.09%) Web Services
7 242 (37.93%) Vue
8 241 (37.77%) ASP.NET
8 241 (37.77%) ASP.NET Core
9 240 (37.62%) AngularJS
10 238 (37.30%) Backbone.js
10 238 (37.30%) Ember.js
10 238 (37.30%) jQuery
10 238 (37.30%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 177 (27.74%) Node.js
12 50 (7.84%) web3js
13 36 (5.64%) KeystoneJS
13 36 (5.64%) Swagger
14 29 (4.55%) Smart Contracts
15 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 53 (8.31%) Web3
6 49 (7.68%) Distributed Systems
7 22 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
7 22 (3.45%) IoT
8 15 (2.35%) Mainframe
9 11 (1.72%) NFT
9 11 (1.72%) Onboarding
9 11 (1.72%) Robotics
10 9 (1.41%) Product Ownership
11 8 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (1.10%) Cloud Native
12 7 (1.10%) PKI
13 5 (0.78%) Social Media
14 4 (0.63%) Cybercrime
14 4 (0.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 3 (0.47%) Driving Licence
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
1 481 (75.39%) 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
16 114 (17.87%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 290 (45.45%) JavaScript
2 249 (39.03%) SQL
3 245 (38.40%) 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%) MCSA
1 40 (6.27%) MCSE
1 40 (6.27%) Microsoft Certification
2 39 (6.11%) Degree
3 10 (1.57%) Master's Degree
4 8 (1.25%) CISM
4 8 (1.25%) CISSP
5 7 (1.10%) CEH
6 4 (0.63%) 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 12 (1.88%) 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
1 108 (16.93%) 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