DeFi Jobs with Work from Home Options

Decentralised Finance (DeFi)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring DeFi skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DeFi over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 585 625 783
Rank change year-on-year +40 +158 -202
Permanent jobs citing DeFi 17 8 118
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.048% 0.021% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.053% 0.022% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 13 3 10
10th Percentile £61,500 £64,500 £64,825
25th Percentile £85,000 £76,875 £85,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £105,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £117,500 £111,250 £122,500
90th Percentile £152,000 £112,000 £165,500
UK median annual salary £110,000 £105,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +42.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

DeFi falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,847 35,988 73,511
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 89.59% 96.02% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 23,766 25,695 42,040
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% +5.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

DeFi
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing DeFi as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DeFi trend for jobs with a WFH option

DeFi
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DeFi.

DeFi salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

DeFi
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DeFi over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

DeFi salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

DeFi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (11.76%) Ethereum
2 1 (5.88%) Hedera
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon S3
2 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (11.76%) AWS Fargate
2 2 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (11.76%) Serverless
3 1 (5.88%) SaaS
3 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Hardhat
General
1 7 (41.18%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Legal
4 1 (5.88%) Marketing
4 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Developer
2 5 (29.41%) Blockchain Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Blockchain Developer
4 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Graduate
5 1 (5.88%) Graduate Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Graduate Software Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Junior
5 1 (5.88%) Junior Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Junior Software Developer
5 1 (5.88%) QA Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) React Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Scala Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (47.06%) Smart Contracts
2 6 (35.29%) REST
3 4 (23.53%) web3js
3 4 (23.53%) WebSockets
4 3 (17.65%) ethers.js
4 3 (17.65%) React
5 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
5 2 (11.76%) zkSync
6 1 (5.88%) .NET
6 1 (5.88%) Node.js
6 1 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (5.88%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 14 (82.35%) Blockchain
2 7 (41.18%) Data Structures
3 4 (23.53%) Web3
4 3 (17.65%) Algorithms
5 2 (11.76%) Virtual Team
6 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Computer Science
1 6 (35.29%) DevOps
2 5 (29.41%) Cryptocurrency
2 5 (29.41%) Software Engineering
3 4 (23.53%) Analytics
3 4 (23.53%) API Design
3 4 (23.53%) Open Source
3 4 (23.53%) Open Source Development
4 3 (17.65%) Algorithmic Trading
4 3 (17.65%) Data Analytics
4 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
5 2 (11.76%) Data Engineering
5 2 (11.76%) Event-Driven
5 2 (11.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (11.76%) Fintech
5 2 (11.76%) Front End Development
5 2 (11.76%) Full Stack Development
5 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Go
1 6 (35.29%) Python
1 6 (35.29%) Rust
2 5 (29.41%) Java
3 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
4 3 (17.65%) C#
4 3 (17.65%) Solidity
4 3 (17.65%) TypeScript
5 2 (11.76%) Kotlin
6 1 (5.88%) C
6 1 (5.88%) Ruby
6 1 (5.88%) Scala
6 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
1 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
1 1 (5.88%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Foundry
2 1 (5.88%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft