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Blockchain Engineers Salary in MD

In the 2025 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS dataset, Blockchain Engineers in MD have a median annual salary of $144,680, with 19,060 recorded jobs in this area. Recorded earnings range from $69,910 at the 10th percentile to $185,220 at the 90th percentile.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS · Data year: 2025 · Last updated: 2026-09-22

Salary overview

Median annual salary

$144,680

Data year: 2025

Hourly median

$69.56

Employment

19,060

Source

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS

Salary distribution

$69,910
10th
$114,920
25th
$144,680
Median
$165,730
75th
$185,220
90th

Local compared with national

MD

$144,680

Median annual · 2025

United States

$116,580

Median annual · 2025

The MD median is 24.1% above the national median in the available dataset (a difference of $28,100).

Top skills

  1. 1.Reading ComprehensionImportance 4.0
  2. 2.Active ListeningImportance 3.8
  3. 3.Critical ThinkingImportance 3.8
  4. 4.Complex Problem SolvingImportance 3.6
  5. 5.Active LearningImportance 3.5
  6. 6.Judgment and Decision MakingImportance 3.5
  7. 7.ProgrammingImportance 3.4
  8. 8.Systems AnalysisImportance 3.4
  9. 9.Time ManagementImportance 3.4
  10. 10.WritingImportance 3.3
  11. 11.SpeakingImportance 3.3
  12. 12.Systems EvaluationImportance 3.3

Career information

Education and experience

Typical education
Bachelor's Degree
Experience
Over 4 years, up to and including 6 years
Job zone
4

Technology used

  • Amazon Elastic Container Service ECS
  • Amazon Kinesis
  • Amazon Simple Storage Service S3
  • Amazon Web Services AWS CloudFormation
  • Amazon Web Services AWS software
  • Ansible software
  • Apache Kafka
  • Atlassian Confluence
  • Atlassian JIRA
  • C
  • C#
  • C++
  • Docker
  • Enterprise application integration EAI software
  • Git

Common tasks

  • Discuss and plan systems with solution architects, system engineers, or cybersecurity experts to meet customer requirements.
  • Implement catastrophic failure handlers to identify security breaches and prevent serious damage.
  • Test the security and performance of blockchain infrastructures.
  • Assess blockchain threats, such as untested code and unprotected keys.
  • Design and deploy blockchain design patterns to make transactions secure, transparent, and immutable.
  • Design and verify cryptographic protocols to protect private information.
  • Evaluate blockchain processes or risks based on security assessments or control matrix reviews.
  • Run infrastructure tests to examine the behavior of large peer-to-peer networks.
  • Discuss data needs with engineers, product managers, or data scientists to identify blockchain requirements.
  • Automate the deployment of software updates over geographically distributed network nodes.

Related careers

Occupations recorded as related in the dataset. A relationship does not imply a guaranteed transition.

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