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lockchain developers are in short supply and hot demand.

The job of developing blockchain distributed ledgers for businesses was recently ranked second among the top 20 fastest-growing job skills, and postings for workers with those skills grew more than 200% last year.

Salaries for blockchain developer or "engineer" positions are accordingly high, with median salaries in the U.S. hovering around $130,000 a year; that compares to general software developers, whose annual median pay is $105,000, according to Matt Sigelman, CEO of job data analytics firm Burning Glass Technologies.

[ Further reading: Blockchain in the real world: 3 enterprise use cases ]
In high-tech regions of the U.S. such as Silicon Valley, New York City or Boston, a blockchain developer has a median annual salary of $158,000 – an $18,000 premium over salaries for general software developers.

 
People with experience with specific blockchain iterations, such as Solidityand Hyperledger Composer, are in even higher demand – and that demand is increasing steadily, said Eric Piscini, a principal in the technology and banking practices at Deloitte Consulting LLP.

"This is the number one thing I have in mind when I wake up in the morning: 'Where will I find more engineers to join the team,'" Piscini said via email.

Solidity is a blockchain programming language for creating smart contracts (self-executing scripts); Hyperledger Composer is an open-source version of blockchain based on JavaScript; it has REST API support that allows non-developers and developers to create business networks.

It's been over two decades since the first mobile phone networks introduced pay-as-you-go (prepaid) services; Now SAP is getting in on the act, unveiling a new consumption-based commercial model for its platform-as-a-service offering, SAP Cloud Platform, at Mobile World Congress.

As well as making the payment model more attractive for businesses wanting to innovate and experiment with cloud services, it's also looking to make the mobile apps that connect to SAP Cloud Platform more attractive with an updated SDK for devices running Apple's iOS. It unveiled the SDK at Mobile World Congress last year.

Although the individual actions metered by SAP's prepaid service might cost only cents or dollars -- for accessing a mobile API, say, or for an hour's compute time -- you won't be able to buy a ten-buck top-up at the supermarket checkout.