Blockchain job market moves into top gear

The blockchain job market has been witnessing a flurry of activity with a significant increase in the number of opportunities which has not been matched by an equivalent increase in talent, according to a report by business networking site LinkedIn.

As a growing number of companies seek to gain a foothold in the emerging blockchain sector, the global demand for talent has been increasing since 2015 and the last two years have seen explosive growth, said the report that was released last month.

In the past three years, candidates who had listed blockchain skills as a talent on the LinkedIn platform rose by nearly 19 times. However, the total supply of blockchain talents still remained small, equivalent to just 2 percent of the total number of global artificial intelligence talents on the LinkedIn platform.