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Want a job in bitcoin or blockchain? These 10 companies have the most openings -... (techrepublic.com)Employer interest in hiring bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and blockchain roles is on the upswing again, after experiencing a downturn along with bitcoin market, but job seeker interest has yet to rebound, according to new data from job search site Indeed.
Between February 2018 and February 2019, the share of job postings in these fields per million on Indeed increased by 90%. However, the share of job searches per million decreased by 67%, the data found.
SEE: IT leader's guide to the blockchain (Tech Pro Research)Taking a longer term view, interest around bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and blockchain jobs is still up: When expanding the view from 2016 to 2019, the share of job postings in these areas increased by 4,086%, and the share of job searches increased by 553%, Indeed found.
Job seeker interest in bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and blockchain jobs spiked around January 2018, when bitcoin prices were fluctuating, Indeed found.
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Demand for blockchain jobs has now outstripped candidate interest, the data shows, demonstrating that while the initial hype around these careers has died down for job seekers, companies are still looking to fill key roles including cryptocurrency analyst, cryptocurrency trader, and bitcoin full stack developer.
These 10 companies have had the highest share of job postings per million for roles related to bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and blockchain over the past year:- Deloitte
- IBM
- KPMG
- EY
- Accenture
- Cisco
- JP Morgan Chase
- Microsoft
- Conduent
- ConsenSys
In terms of location, the metro areas with the most job postings in these fields include San Jose, San Francisco, New York, Austin, and Seattle, the data showed.
Blockchain jobs pay above the US median salary, a past Glassdoor report found: Open blockchain-related jobs on the site last year offered a median base salary of $84,884 per year.
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Francisco Gimeno - BC Analyst Checking which companies are posting blockchain related jobs we easily see the pattern: tech companies, big banks and the world´s big audit and financial management companies. There are, however, many other middle and small companies which are in need of blockchain skilled workers with very good salary and life conditions.- 10 1 vote
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Jobs and Talent: Shell is recruiting graduates to build blockchain use cases for... (thenextweb.com)The world’s fifth largest oil and gas producer in the world, Royal Dutch Shell, is getting further into the blockchain game, and is looking to train the next generation of blockchain industry execs.
Shell is looking for “blockchain analysts” as part of its Information Technology (IT) graduate programme, according to a job listing on its graduate careers website.
The job role has seemingly flown under the radar for the last four months after being posted to LinkedIn. According to the job specification, the placement will take place in Shell‘s Blockchain Centre of Excellence (CoE). But what does a “blockchain analyst” even do?
Well, successful applicants will explore potential new applications of the decentralized technology across all of Shell‘s business areas – from its core in oil and gas to new energies and electric vehicles.
They will be responsible for taking potential use cases from “ideation” through to implementation. This will include finding new applications of not just blockchain but other decentralized technologies. It’ll then be the responsibility of the analyst to sell these potential uses to the rest of the business, the job listing states.
Shell is looking for recent Master’s graduates with backgrounds in the following disciplines: mathematics, computer science, and artificial intelligence.Indeed, it makes sense that Shell is looking for the next generation of business-based blockchain proponents.
In November last year, the Dutch firm took part in launching a blockchain-based platform for trading oil, that is replacing a centuries old, traditionally paper-based, process.
What’s more, the fact that Shell is hiring graduates points to a greater trend uncovered earlier this month.
Data gathered by Hard Fork showed that the blockchain industry‘s biggest employers are actually old-school corporate firms like Deloitte, IBM, Accenture, Oracle, and KPMG.
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Francisco Gimeno - BC Analyst Another big corporation exploring the blockchain ways, confirming the trend we are observing from big companies which try to experiment and possibly adopt the blockchain and adapt their business models to the incoming 4th IR, saving in costs, time and opening new business avenues.
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There's been a 517% increase in demand for software engineers with blockchain development skills in the past year, according to a new report from job search site Hired.
In its first-ever analysis of only software engineering jobs, Hired found blockchain development skills ranked in the top three job openings in almost every global region. Blockchain engineers were followed by security engineers and embedded engineers, which saw 132% and 76% year-over-year growth, respectively.
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Mehul Patel, CEO of Hired, said the growth in demand for blockchain skills has gone "through the roof" and tops anything he's ever seen.
[ Further reading: Blockchain: The complete guide ]"It's staggering growth," Patel said.
San Francisco-based Hired culled its data from the resumes of more than 100,000 job seekers and job postings from more than 10,000 companies that use the website.Salaries for software developers with blockchain skills are as high as $157,000 in the U.S., according to the report. Outside the U.S., salaries drop significantly, but that is to be expected, as pay for software engineers in general is lower in other regions, Patel said.
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In London, for example, software engineers with blockchain development skills earn as much as $90,000; in Toronto they earn up to $75,000; and in Paris, $67,000, according to Hired's report.[ Looking to upgrade your career in tech? This comprehensive online course teaches you how. ]Hired's data is not far off that of other recent job reports.
For example, job market research firm Burning Glass Technologies in December reported that blockchain developer job openings had grown 316% in the past year – creating 12,006 job openings in the U.S. alone.The median advertised salary for software developers requiring blockchain skills in the U.S. was $125,000, according to Burning Glass Technologies.
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"As demand increases, so do salaries," according to the Hired report.Also, in December, LinkedIn revealed its top five emerging careers and found blockchain developer was number one.
Job listings for those who can create blockchain ledgers had grown 33-fold in a year, according to LinkedIn's 2018 U.S. Emerging Jobs Report. In distant second place were machine learning engineers, positions that saw a 12-fold increase during the same period.
While blockchain engineering is the most in-demand skill on the Hired marketplace, only 12% of survey respondents identified blockchain as the top technology they want to learn. Fifty-one percent of survey respondents named Python as one of their most-liked languages, while 49% cited Javascript. PHP was ranked the least favorite at 19%.
Another problem affecting the mismatch between the need for blockchain developers and a lack of available workers is the difficulty in finding places that offer training, Patel said. In general, one in five software engineers is self-taught, according to Hired's data."I think generally we are seeing less than half of engineers we looked at had a B.S. degree and one fifth of them had gone through a year and a half of school.
So one-third of our engineering base are self-taught or taught through non-traditional means," Patel said. Almost two-thirds of the software engineering roles on Hired's platform didn't have blockchain in the title, but did list it as a skill.
"So, I think the title itself is not out there yet, but folks are definitely looking for the skills," Patel said.While still relatively rare, blockchain training programs have begun to pop up and are now being offered by some of the nation's leading universities, including Princeton, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and MIT.
Currently, the easiest and fastest way to become proficient is to learn on your own or attend programs organized by blockchain vendors and industry groups, such as Consensys, Blockapps, the Ethereum Foundation and Hyperledger.
While blockchain may be a relatively new technology in terms of enterprise deployments, Patel said he's confident demand will continue to be strong for years to come as businesses begin implementing "their countless use cases" Those uses involve everything from digital identity and smart contracts to workforce management and distributed data storage.
"I think there's a deep feeling here that blockchain is the next wave of technology innovation that will underpin almost every industry one way or another – sort of like the first wave of the internet in the 1990s," Patel said. "So no, I don't think this is a temporary thing."- By Admin
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Daniel Mihail piramida at s.c piramida s.r.l. I think what go up must come down like in Euler diagram, the need for software engineers is on the wave but what if in the near future Artificial Intelligence will be able to write block code,
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Francisco Gimeno - BC Analyst If you are a software engineer with blockchain development skills, congratulations! You are at the crest of the blockchain wave and will get jobs offers from all around for your picking. If you are not, prepare as for the next decade all jobs blockchain related in the industry will be (…more)
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The blockchain market shows no signs of slowing down and this technology is one of the hottest skills in the freelance job market.
However, according to Tom Beno and Nate D’Amico, blockchain skills won’t matter in the immediate future. How can this technology become more accessible to developers? Let’s find out!
JAXenter: Blockchain developers need a far-reaching skill set which includes proficiency in software engineering, cryptography, mathematics, information security and the list goes on. How can we simplify this process in order to encourage more people to experiment with this technology?
Tom Beno: Beyond the skills you’ve mentioned, I would add that there needs to be a philosophical understanding of what solutions blockchain technology can provide. Once people can work backward from the outcome, the technology becomes the set of tools used to get there. The far-reaching skills needed can be taught and learned, but the thing that will compel people to experiment is a solution-oriented understanding of the technology’s use cases in a real business.
Nate D’Amico: For end users, most of it has to do with user experience design and the applications and services that will be sitting between the users and the blockchains. To use an example, we know that users are familiar with usernames and passwords. If you lose or forget your password you just enter your email, reset or recover it and get back into your account. In the blockchain world of private and public keys, a lost key typically means an orphaned account. Providing “password reset” type UX for blockchain-based applications, while maintaining security, can go a long way.
JAXenter: How can we make blockchain more accessible to developers?It’s a marathon and we are just in the first couple of miles of this journey as companies understand how to map their various problems and workflows to a blockchain.
Tom Beno: Blockchain technology can be made more accessible to developers by utilizing open APIs in the platform design. Many of the most well-known blockchains operate off their own programming languages. This creates a higher barrier to entry for talent that uses Java, C++ or Python.
Nate D’Amico: This is the essence of what we are trying to solve with our blockchain and tooling offerings. Our view is that the best way to make blockchain more accessible for users and developers is to make getting started and the development of user experience as efficient and self-serviceable as possible.
The ideal is a simple object model to leverage the blockchain for varying use cases without having to worry about all the gory details of how things are working under the covers. An analogy would be that back in the day you used to have to know how database innards worked and how they were leveraging b-trees for storage and querying. But as tools like MySQL and Postgres came out, everything became more approachable and provided solid foundations to store your data with a simple SQL and query interface.
JAXenter: What is Catapult and how can people use it to build and deploy blockchain applications more easily?
Tom Beno: Catapult is the V2 release of the NEM protocol. As stated above, it uses an open API design to allow people to build and deploy software applications on both a public and private ledger. Catapult has been designed with features meant for real business use cases – things like aggregate transactions, recurring pulls and atomic swaps.
Nate D’Amico: Catapult is the second generation of our blockchain offering that delivers Version 2 of the NEM protocol – it powers the NEM public blockchain network. We have a “batteries included” approach to everything we deliver. Whether it’s in the open source solution, or our enterprise product line, at the end of the day we make it as easy and efficient for developers and users to get started.
For instance, we just released an open source development bootstrap tool that will start up a running Catapult service on your laptop in about 60 seconds – all you have to do is learn the APIs and programming against your test setup. We are also delivering a self-service developer lab running on various public clouds. This will allow developers a push button experience to get a free starter Catapult service going.
Outside of tools like this, it’s really the power of the NEM protocol in its simplicity and minimal object model, while providing extremely powerful on chain contracts for asset management, namespacing and the most advanced multi-signature account support.
Developers don’t have to write any contracts themselves, they just need to leverage the direct API calls like they would with any other REST API service.
SEE ALSO: “We are working hard to cultivate blockchain talent”Blockchain and DevOps
JAXenter: Right now we perceive blockchain and DevOps as two different terms used in different contexts. But do they do well together? Do they have a shared future?
Nate D’Amico: Definitely. There are two parts to that, one is how DevOps practices and tooling can make it more approachable and easy for companies and developers to get started delivering and maintaining distributed ledger solutions in production, at scale. The other part is how the practice of DevOps itself can leverage blockchain distributed-ledger technology its tooling and solutions.
For the former, as mentioned above, we strive for ease of deployment and self-service, so everything we do is approached with a goal of 100% automation and removing setup and configuration complexity from the end user. For the latter, we have a partner that has a DevOps related solution for the enterprise that is leveraging Catapult in its core for powering various features and security in its solution.
JAXenter: Do you think developers’ lack of blockchain skills will no longer matter in the foreseeable future?
Nate D’Amico: Yes! It won’t matter in the immediate future. That is our job and what keeps us up at night, besides working between EU and Japan time zones. We tell customers regularly, “You don’t need a blockchain developer, you need a regular developer who knows how to use SDK’s and talk to APIs, just like any of the other 20 services you are using.”
JAXenter: Has it become easier to include blockchain in a company’s backbone?
Nate D’Amico: It has. Catapult and other models out there are offering a BaaS (Blockchain-as-a-Service) so that companies can get a private blockchain environment established.It has but it’s still the early days. It has a similar feel to the “big data” space, where every company had a big data initiative.
It’s a marathon and we are just in the first couple of miles of this journey as companies understand how to map their various problems and workflows to a blockchain. It’s our job to accelerate that process and make it as easy and approachable as possible.
JAXenter: What are the new areas in which blockchain is likely to be used this year?
Nate D’Amico: There are some obvious ones that are already happening, at least in POC and pilot projects around the world. Most of them are on the enterprise side and have an auditing and reporting focus to them, such as logistic data logging, IoT sensor reporting, identity and access control status and, of course, tokens – whether publicly tradable cryptographic tokens, or private use ones used to track a level of asset ownership and reporting.
These will continue to be the primary solutions, but I think we will start to see more B2C type solutions going into production. Those can be loyalty rewards type solutions, payments or security and verification. As more people get pulled into the space, the breadth of solutions should continue to expand.
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Francisco Gimeno - BC Analyst NEM through its Catapult product offers an interesting idea: we don't need so many Blockchain developers, but developers which can work with Blockchain tools offered by them in BaaS (Blockchain as a Service). This is probably the first of many other products we will see launching in the next future to help with the lack of proper prepared Blockchain developers. Interesting indeed.
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Technology giant IBM is hiring nearly 2,000 people in France - and many of them will be focusing on blockchain technology, chief executive Virginia Rometty said Wednesday.In an interview with French news organization Le Monde, Rometty said IBM was hiring researchers for blockchain projects, among other focuses.
While she did not elaborate on what projects the researchers may be working on, she did note that the company currently works with Crédit Mutuel, Orange Bank, Generali, France's national railway system and Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE (LVMH).During the interview, she said:"In the next two years, we will hire 1,800 people in France at IBM. In January, we announced a project to recruit 400 people for research. These jobs will include AI, blockchain ... and the Internet of Things."
The move is just the latest in IBM's push to expand its blockchain research. Last week at CoinDesk's Consensus 2018 conference, the company announced it was partnering with environmental technology startup Veridium Labs to create a carbon credit token on the Stellar network.
Stepping back, the company has recently announced efforts to tackle advertising, humanitarian aid, business registries and even insurance, as previously reported by CoinDesk.
Note: Statements in this article have been translated from French.
IBM image via Shutterstock
The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is an independent operating subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which invests in cryptocurrencies and blockchain startups.- By Admin
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