Blockchain Engineering Becomes One of The Highest Paying Jobs in Tech
Blockchain engineers are in high demand right now, becoming one of the highest paying jobs in tech. According to a recent research report on engineers done by San Francisco firm Hired, demand for blockchain engineers has increased by 517% in the past year. It is the most sought after skill in the Hired marketplace. However, the demand for blockchain engineers is not meeting the rate at which engineers are interested in learning blockchain engineering. Only 12% of survey respondents said blockchain was the most important technology for them to learn. Salaries for software developers with blockchain engineering skills can be as high as $157,000 in the United States.
According to a LinkedIn report, ‘blockchain engineer’ is the number one emerging job of 2019. While machine learning has been hot for the past few years, there is now a strong interest and demand for blockchain technologists, not just in the financial services sector, but in tech as well. The expectation for the possibility of blockchain technology remains very high. Analysts say it will transform how we verify identities in addition to how money is transferred.
Universities are catching onto the seriousness of cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies as well, with some of the top universities, such as MIT and Stanford, offering ‘bitcoin engineering’ courses.
Synechron, information technology, and global consulting firm released the results of a survey they conducted regarding the potential of blockchain in financial services. Of the 92 executives interviewed, who play a crucial role in decision making at their financial and capital market institutions, over 55% thought that within the next 10 years blockchain will be “hugely important in financial services.” Top reasons for why these firms have not adopted blockchain were “unclear legal and regulatory aspects” as well as “unproven scalability and performance capabilities.”
Even while cryptocurrency prices in have fallen in this month, the demand for blockchain engineers is high, and institutional support—from some state governments, universities, and financial innovators and leaders—suggests that there is a future for blockchain technology that cannot be denied.
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