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Blockchain Engineer: what the job is, what it pays, and how to get hired.

The work, the skills that matter, the tools in demand and the pay range, from U.S. government data, plus every TryHired page for the role.

BLS does not publish pay for blockchain engineers separately. Every pay figure on this page is for the BLS occupation “Computer Occupations, All Other” (SOC 15-1299), which includes blockchain engineers and other jobs; it is not a figure for blockchain engineers alone.

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Updated Nov 2, 2026 · Data: BLS OEWS May 2025 · O*NET 31.0
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Median percentile pay

Half of workers in the BLS occupation “Computer Occupations, All Other” earn more than this and half earn less.

Annual
$116,580
Hourly
$56.05
Source
BLS May 2025
Quick answer

Blockchain Engineers maintain and support distributed and decentralized blockchain-based networks or block-chain applications such as cryptocurrency exchange, payment processing, document sharing, and digital voting. The median pay is $116,580 a year ($56.05 an hour) (BLS, May 2025). The most commonly reported education requirement is a bachelor's degree (38% of workers surveyed by O*NET).

Median pay
$116,580
BLS May 2025
Employed in the U.S.
435,370
BLS May 2025
Preparation
Job Zone 4 of 5
considerable preparation
Most common education
Bachelor's Degree
38% of workers
Key facts

Blockchain Engineers at a glance

  • Workers in the BLS occupation “Computer Occupations, All Other” (which includes blockchain engineers) in the United States earned a median annual wage of $116,580 in May 2025, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

    Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025

  • In its 2025–35 employment projections, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics lists a bachelor's degree as the typical entry-level education for blockchain engineers in the United States.

    Source: BLS Employment Projections, 2025–35

  • BLS estimated that 435,370 people were employed as blockchain engineers in the United States in May 2025, not counting the self-employed.

    Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025

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The work

What blockchain engineers do day to day

Data Core tasks rated most important by workers in the role (O*NET).

  1. Discuss and plan systems with solution architects, system engineers, or cybersecurity experts to meet customer requirements.
  2. Implement catastrophic failure handlers to identify security breaches and prevent serious damage.
  3. Test the security and performance of blockchain infrastructures.
  4. Assess blockchain threats, such as untested code and unprotected keys.
  5. Design and deploy blockchain design patterns to make transactions secure, transparent, and immutable.
  6. Design and verify cryptographic protocols to protect private information.
  7. Evaluate blockchain processes or risks based on security assessments or control matrix reviews.
  8. Run infrastructure tests to examine the behavior of large peer-to-peer networks.
Where this career works

Industries that employ it

Data Share of all blockchain engineer jobs in each industry, 2025 (BLS Employment Matrix). Figures cover all computer occupations, all other (SOC 15-1299), the broader occupation.

  1. Professional, scientific, and technical services26.0% of all jobs in this occupation · +12.9% projected change here 2025–35 · mean wage $125,890
  2. Government, excluding state and local education and hospitals22.4% of all jobs in this occupation · -4.3% projected change here 2025–35 · mean wage $124,650
  3. Management of companies and enterprises4.9% of all jobs in this occupation · +4.6% projected change here 2025–35 · mean wage $133,260
  4. Administrative and support services4.9% of all jobs in this occupation · +1.3% projected change here 2025–35 · mean wage $108,110
  5. Educational services; state, local, and private4.3% of all jobs in this occupation · +2.2% projected change here 2025–35 · mean wage $88,470
  6. Computing infrastructure providers, data processing, web hosting, and related services3.5% of all jobs in this occupation · +27.0% projected change here 2025–35 · mean wage $131,930

Sources: BLS 2025–35 National Employment Matrix (share of the occupation's jobs, projected change) and BLS OEWS May 2025 industry estimates (mean wage). Different industry estimates are not a pay forecast for any person.

Skills that matter

Ranked by importance to the job

Data O*NET importance ratings. The first three are core.

Reading ComprehensioncoreActive ListeningcoreCritical ThinkingcoreComplex Problem SolvingJudgment and Decision MakingActive LearningProgrammingSystems AnalysisTime Management

Knowledge areas: Computers and Electronics, Engineering and Technology, Mathematics, English Language.

Tools and technology

Software blockchain engineers use

Data Examples reported for the role; employer demand flags from O*NET.

  • DockerApplication server softwareIn demand
  • GitFile versioning softwareIn demand
  • KubernetesApplication server softwareIn demand
  • MongoDBData base management system softwareIn demand
  • PostgreSQLObject oriented data base management softwareIn demand
  • Amazon Web Services AWS CloudFormationCloud-based management softwareHot technology
  • Ansible softwareExpert system softwareHot technology
  • Atlassian JIRAContent workflow softwareHot technology
  • GitHubApplication server softwareHot technology
  • Grafana Labs Grafana CloudGraphical user interface development softwareHot technology
  • IBM TerraformConfiguration management softwareHot technology
  • Jenkins CIEnterprise application integration softwareHot technology

Also called: Blockchain Consultant, DLT Software Engineer (Distributed Ledger Technology Software Engineer).

Method

How this page is built

Tasks, skills, tools, education and related roles come from O*NET 31.0. Pay and employment come from the BLS OEWS May 2025 national estimates. The skill-match score is our calculation: Skill match is the cosine similarity of the two occupations' skill profiles: for each of 35 O*NET skills (10 essential, 25 transferable) we multiply importance by level and subtract the average across all occupations, then compare the direction of the two profiles. 100 means identical shape; 0 means unrelated or opposite (negative values are shown as 0). Only occupations that O*NET itself lists as related are compared.

What this page can't tell you
  • How a specific employer defines the job.
  • Pay for self-employed workers (OEWS covers employees).
  • Your own chances: data describes the occupation, not you.
Sources
  1. O*NET 31.0 Database, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license. TryHired selected, ranked and combined the data; O*NET is not responsible for these pages.
  2. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 estimates (public domain).

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