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Who Is Hiring? Search Top 8 locations

Where Are the Most Tech Jobs? Hacker News Hiring by City (2011-2026)

Which cities (and remote) get the most Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' postings: San Francisco, New York, London, Seattle, Berlin and more, charted by share since 2011.

Explore Top 8 locations in the Who Is Hiring? tool

Ranked by demand (all-time)

  1. 1.Remote40,665 postings · peak Aug 2021
  2. 2.San Francisco14,824 postings · peak Aug 2015
  3. 3.New York7,704 postings · peak Aug 2015
  4. 4.London6,913 postings · peak Apr 2018
  5. 5.Seattle3,110 postings · peak Aug 2021
  6. 6.Berlin3,004 postings · peak Aug 2021
  7. 7.Austin2,165 postings · peak Aug 2021
  8. 8.Amsterdam1,706 postings · peak Feb 2021
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Job postings

Hover (or click) a bar segment to read the job postings that mention that term in that month.

Each calendar month since 2011 as one bar. Switch to share % to stack the bands to 100% and see each one’s slice of the category’s postings, narrow the window, or click a month to read the postings behind the bar.

What the chart shows

For more than a decade the Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' thread has been a running census of where tech companies actually staff up, and the chart tells a clear two-act story. Through the 2010s the classic hubs - San Francisco first, then New York, London and Seattle - carry most of the postings. Then 'remote' erupts in 2021 and never gives the share back, reshaping the whole stack so that location is now as much about remote-versus-hub as about one city versus another. Read the relative bands to see how each city's slice rose or faded, and skim the sample postings to see how companies describe the location requirement itself.

Popular Remote postings (the category leader)

  1. Normal | Senior SWE Backend | Full-time | $100-140K USD | Remote PT ET Hours | Typescript Node Postgres roles I'm the founder of Normcore.io, an autoscaling game server hosting service and Unity plugin that includes all of the pieces you need to create a multiplayer game. We…

  2. ALBERT | REMOTE ALMOST ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD| Hiring principal and distinguished engineers to build net new products | up to ~ $750k Hiring: exceptional consumer product engineers at Albert. We're a consumer fintech with 20M+ users who trust us to budget, save, invest, and bank…

Each skill on its own

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