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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.Remote40,368 postings · peak Aug 2021
  2. 2.San Francisco14,774 postings · peak Aug 2015
  3. 3.New York7,678 postings · peak Aug 2015
  4. 4.London6,884 postings · peak Apr 2018
  5. 5.Seattle3,099 postings · peak Aug 2021
  6. 6.Berlin2,991 postings · peak Aug 2021
  7. 7.Austin2,157 postings · peak Aug 2021
  8. 8.Amsterdam1,699 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. 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…

  2. Reef Technologies | Senior Python Backend Engineer | REMOTE | Full-time Salary: 45-70 USD per hour, or 7560-11760 USD a month (assuming 40 hours per week). Hourly rates typically adjusted annually. We’re all about the backend! As a fully remote Python software house, we comprise…

Each skill on its own

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