615% Surge in crypto and blockchain job at LinkedIn

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LinkedIn Job social platform is getting huge demand by the crypto industry regarding crypto & Blockchain-related jobs. 

In the present time, the crypto industry is evolving at a very high speed over other industries. Every crypto believer wants to establish their own crypto business in this initial stage, and such increasing competition is responsible for the birth of the new crypto job.

On 27 October, Devin Banerjee- LinkedIn Editor, shared a data report by the economic graph team of the LinkedIn platform. The shared report clearly showed that the team sees a 615%  surge in the crypto & blockchain-related jobs in the United States. This surge took place between August 2020 to August 2021. 

Data report said that there were huge numbers of companies and institutions, which were involved in the hiring of crypto & blockchain inclined jobs. JPMorgan institute was at the top level in the hiring for the position of digital assets based services. 

According to the LinkedIn team of LinkedIn, they believed that they will see a 5 fold surge in the crypto and blockchain roles, as of 2015. But actually, they got a double surge than what they expected. 

According to, LinkedIn data report, JPMorgan hired more than 30 job seekers in a week for the role of blockchain-focused software developers, engineers, marketers and auditors. And the main aim of the hiring was to establish blockchain & digital assets based operations in the US. 

Roman Regelman from Bank of New York Mellon said “the opportunities in digital assets are plentiful…We can now attract talent in a very different way.” 

Amazon & Apple hiring for a blockchain developer 

This year, Amazon also offered the role of highly experienced crypto & blockchain developers. Amazon officially confirmed that new blockchain hires are based upon the new development work in the blockchain industry.

However, the Apple company hired some crypto & blockchain developers for the alternative payment system network programming. But didn’t talk about their stance on the plan of crypto-based services. 

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