The Booming Blockchain Industry (+150% growth in Jobs)

In the last few weeks, the number of jobs adverts on Linked-in for blockchain related jobs have increased by 150%. This shows the growing popularity of the blockchain ecosystem and the demand for people with the skills to understand the technology behind cryptocurrencies. The demand for these jobs is outweighing the supply by a huge margin with dozens of new blokchcsan related startups getting started everyday. The average salary for these is reported to be around $150,000 in the United States with the best fetching close to $250,000 USD annually. It one of the three hottest areas in computer science - just behind Artificial Intelligence and Cloud based computing.

A Country manager for Linkedin said:

“Professionals in related areas such as cryptography and machine learning may want to look at the roles available and the skills they need to develop, as there is certainly a growing demand within the technology, finance and insurance industries for blockchain expertise,”.

The popularity has been as a result of the growing market cap of cryptocurrencies which has recently crossed the $100 Billion USD mark. Large corporate teams have already started to discuss how to integrate this technology into their existing infrastructure. With some companies providing course for their employees to catch up on the trend. This is just the start of a booming industry which is going to be running on everyone's mind.