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The crypto job market, measured weekly

In the week of September 14, 2026 we tracked 537 new crypto & web3 roles (-3% vs the week before), with 3,385 positions open right now. Every number on this page comes straight from live CryptoJobsHQ listings - no surveys, no self-reporting.

537-3% WoW
new roles this week
3,385
open positions now
34.1%
fully remote
$166k-$212k
median advertised salary (n=115)
21.4%
of postings disclose pay

New roles per week

Fresh crypto & web3 openings tracked per week - our Hiring Index.

Mar 30: 0 new rolesMar 30Apr 6: 0 new rolesApr 13: 0 new rolesApr 20: 0 new rolesApr 20Apr 27: 0 new rolesMay 4: 0 new rolesMay 11: 0 new rolesMay 11May 18: 0 new rolesMay 25: 0 new rolesJun 1: 0 new rolesJun 1Jun 8: 0 new rolesJun 15: 3128 new roles3128Jun 22: 866 new rolesJun 22Jun 29: 661 new rolesJul 6: 1295 new rolesJul 13: 691 new rolesJul 13Jul 20: 659 new rolesJul 27: 668 new rolesAug 3: 573 new rolesAug 3Aug 10: 588 new rolesAug 17: 470 new rolesAug 24: 557 new rolesAug 24Aug 31: 491 new rolesSep 7: 553 new rolesSep 14: 537 new roles537Sep 14

Demand by discipline

New roles this week per discipline.

Engineering179
Legal & Compliance63
Security54
Research48
Operations32
Design31
Finance31
Product26
Marketing25
Business Development16

Where the jobs are

Top hiring countries on this week's new roles.

United States214
United Kingdom53
Netherlands37
Hong Kong SAR China33
Canada29
India23
Singapore21
United Arab Emirates20

Tech & topics in demand

Most-used tags on this week's new roles.

Infrastructure263
Compliance231
AI228
Trading193
Security182
Python137
Wallet124
Payments106
Backend96
Exchange95

Inside the job descriptions

What 520 new job posts actually offer and ask.

AI skills mentioned46%
Equity / stock options11%
Unlimited / flexible time off9%
Regulation & licensing7%
Visa sponsorship1%
Token-based compensation1%
Relocation support1%
Salary payable in crypto0%

Wondering about crypto payment? We checked 91,401 listings, and only 67 pay in crypto.

Reports from the data

Longer reads that answer one question with our own numbers.

September 2, 2026
Entry-level crypto jobs: the honest numbers
Only 36 of 1,389 live roles are junior. Who actually hires beginners, in which fields, and why almost none of it is remote.
August 31, 2026
Do crypto jobs actually pay in crypto?
We checked 91,401 listings. 67 pay in crypto, roughly 1 in 1,364. You are ten times more likely to be offered shares than tokens.

Hiring hardest this week

Companies with the most new openings.

1RORobinhood46 new roles
2KRKraken (Payward)22 new roles
3TETether22 new roles4OKOKX19 new roles5BYBybit16 new roles6DRDRW16 new roles7TLTRM Labs15 new roles8DTDV Trading14 new roles9RIRipple14 new roles10COCoinbase13 new roles

See who else is hiring on the companies page, or dive into salary benchmarks.

Methodology: aggregated from live listings on CryptoJobsHQ, refreshed weekly. Salary figures reflect advertised USD ranges only. Time-to-fill approximates the days between a role appearing and disappearing at the source. Description signals (perks, visa, AI) are detected in the posting text itself.

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