DeFi: market
The DeFi market currently has 2,131 open roles, 2,035 of them freshly observed. Median salary $16,666/mo. Observed candidate pool — 253.
⚠ salary known for 30 of 2131 jobs; remote share from 1919 with a stated format; 2035 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Demand and observed supply
| Open demand | 2,131 |
| Observed supply | 253 |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution
One in ten earns under $9,963, one in ten over $16,666. Half the market falls between $16,583 and $16,666. Sample: 30.
Demand geography
| country | jobs |
|---|---|
| US | 959 |
| GB | 123 |
| DE | 87 |
| IN | 84 |
| CA | 55 |
| SG | 49 |
| HK | 47 |
| RU | 25 |
| NL | 25 |
| AE | 23 |
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
Roles that use it
| role | jobs |
|---|---|
| Product | 164 |
| Backend | 112 |
| Architect | 108 |
| Blockchain | 102 |
| ML/AI | 102 |
| AI Engineer | 72 |
| Fullstack | 65 |
| Data | 63 |
| Security | 55 |
| Design | 51 |
⚠ the `Other` and `IT` buckets are excluded as non-roles
Demand by grade
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 614 |
| lead | 344 |
| principal | 297 |
| junior | 22 |
| middle | 19 |
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers
Demand is spread across 460 employers. The largest accounts for 4.5%, the top ten for 26.3%; the remaining 73.7% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 4.5% |
| top-3 | 10.9% |
| top-10 | 26.3% |
| long tail | 73.7% |
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 57 sources; the largest accounts for 56.4% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
Recent openings
- Senior Product Designer, Fiat/Earn · HK
- Earn Institutional BD & Growth · HK
- Earn Product Operations & User Growth · TW
- Growth & Partnerships Manager - Staking Products · TW
- OTC Trader · AE
- Security Assurance Engineer · DE
- People Business Partner - Product & Engineering · US
- Software Engineer, Data · DE
Adjacent markets
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
How this is measured
- Vacancy
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Observed candidate
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Matchable candidate
- not counted yet
- Window
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
About the data
- Some breakdowns are hidden: their data coverage is not yet sufficient.
- Statistics are shown only where the sample clears a quality gate.
- A missing block does not mean a value of zero.
Breakdowns currently hidden: 7.
Data as of 2026-10-20