Blockchain developers are among the most popular IT professionals on the job market, together with machine learning specialists and virtual reality engineers, US recruiters say.

Specialists in the distributed ledger are in high demand, says Matt Leighton, director of recruitment in the Californian company Mondo, specialised in “Digital Marketing and Tech Talent”. According to him,

“Getting money quickly from platform to platform – that is an ecommerce company's golden ticket.”

Blockchain engineering, yesterday just a niche phenomenon, today becomes increasingly popular as many new companies, not only financial but also those specialised in healthcare and supply chain, try to find use cases for the distributed ledger.

According to Mondo’s website, a blockchain engineer should have at least a Bachelor’s Degree, preferably a Master’s in Computer Science, Computer Design, Mathematics or similar subject. He also must have special knowledge of blockchain and “stay on top of the latest programming languages.”

The average salary for blockchain engineers is $80,000 a year, as quoted by Mondo. However, salary estimates at Indeed are higher, ranging from $75,000 to $135,000 and more.

Other two types of experts in big demand are, according to Leighton, machine learning specialists and virtual reality engineers. But he believes that in general, a good IT specialist will never stay unemployed:

“The real technical people? They don't stay on the market for more than two days. They're always off the market.”

Alexey Tereshchenko