In 2008, the Blockchain technology was rejuvenated when Bitcoin was introduced publicly as a potential alternative global digital currency. Today, there are more than 4,000 companies that are involved in blockchain development. According to CMC, there are 2,071 cryptocurrency companies that are involved in blockchain.
Typically, there are two types of blockchain jobs.
The first is the blockchain product companies that are building blockchains. These companies hire software developers, engineers, testers, web designers, and project managers. The skills required for this kind of job are typical technical skills. You don’t need to be a blockchain expert for this kind of jobs. Some of the popular technical skills needed for blockchain developers are C++, Java, JavaScript, NodeJS, C#, Go RESTful, APIs, React, Solidity, Truffle, CSS, and HTML.
The second type of blockchain job is companies building blockchain applications using existing blockchains, such as Ethereum, Hyperledger, Corda, Bitcoin, or Stellar. These developers need to have knowledge of blockchains.
Blockchain jobs are growing. The top 3 countries hiring blockchain developers are the USA, India, and the UK. Currently, the USA has more than 75% of the blockchain jobs. According to
BurningGlass, there were only a few jobs in 2012 but the number grew to 1,838 job postings in 2016. The year 2017 saw more growth with 3,958 job postings.
LinkedIn has a listing of 4,065 blockchain-related jobs. San Francisco, New York, Chicago, LA, and Boston are the
Top 5 cities in the USA that are hiring blockchain skilled people.
Blockchain Jobs
Some of the most popular blockchain jobs are blockchain architect, blockchain developer, blockchain engineer, blockchain project manager, blockchain quality engineer, blockchain legal consultant, and blockchain web designer.
Three popular public blockchain projects that are seeing growth are Hyperledger, Corda, and Ethereum.
Hyperledger project is a set of several blockchain projects including Hyperledger Burrow, Hyperledger Fabric, Hyperledger Indy, Hyperledger Iroha, and Hyperledger Sawtooth. Each of these projects is designed for a specific need. Hyperledger Burrow and Hyperledger Fabric are used to create and execute smart contracts. Hyperledger projects can run on Azure, AWS, and IBM clouds. You can build Hyperledger applications in Go, Java, and Node.js. Learn more -
What is Hyperledger Fabric
R3’s Corda is an open source blockchain platform that is designed for businesses to build blockchain applications using their existing technology stack and expertise. Kotlin is the programming language used to build Corda apps. Learn more about Corda –
What is Corda Blockchain.
Solidity is the programming language required to write smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain. Ethereum has become the most popular cryptocurrency and blockchain project to build smart contracts for ICOs. Thousands of blockchain startups have built their ICOs on Ethereum and Bitcoin protocols.
Learn Solidity here
The future
Besides a few popular blockchains, most of the blockchain products are still in the development phase and expected to be publicly released in 2019. There is going to be a surge in demand for blockchain jobs in 2019 and by 2020, we should see even more real applications adopting blockchain. As a matter of fact, blockchain is considered as one of the Web 3.0 technologies.