Blockchain Jobs and Hiring Trends

Browsing through the news today, I bumped onto something interesting. A survey done by the job-hunting site named Indeed.com and an article about it in Forbes.

The main reason for the article was the fact that the survey showed that JPMorgan is hiring for more blockchain jobs than any Wall Street Firm. The biggest bank in America is posting more jobs in the industry than any other financial firm. JPMorgan Chase is the only financial firm in the top ten companies posting jobs with the words “blockchain,” “cryptocurrency,” or “bitcoin” over the past year.

The only companies to post more jobs than JPMorgan Chase were tech firms IBM and Cisco, and consulting firms Accenture, EY, KPMG, and Deloitte.

While the survey doesn’t speculate as to the reason the job postings have increased in spite of the price drop, one possibility is the recent increase in the number of large companies exploring non-cryptocurrency applications of blockchain. To give some broader perspective on the trend, the Indeed.com survey shows a 4,086% increase in related job postings to the site since 2016 and a 553% increase in job searches over the same period. That means that for the first time ever, there are more job postings than searches!

Here is a link to the original article:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldelcastillo/2019/03/28/jpmorgan-is-hiring-more-blockchain-jobs-than-any-other-wall-street-firm/#4b80af4668c8

The photo is mine