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Austin

A mid-tier US hiring market that punches above its weight in infrastructure and B2B SaaS. Runs noticeably more remote-friendly than coastal peers — a footprint that hardened post-2020 and has not given back.

Postings · Sep 2026−36%3-mo momentum
12
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingOct '25 → Sep '26
11 low3-mo avg · 1721.6667 high
Rank · US
#5of 30 US cities
Remote-friendly · This month
50%−19 pts vs US
Share of US postings
4.0%12 of 372
3-Mo momentum
Falling−36% vs prior 3 mo
§ 00Hiring Volume

Climbed faster than the US baseline since the 2023 trough.

Annual totals for the last five years — every year shown is complete except 2026, hatched because it is still in progress.

Full yearPartial yearAll-time peak
All-time postings
6,284since 2011 · 186 months
−14% YoY2025 vs 2024
ALL-TIME PEAK
899
'22
311
'23
220
'24
189
'25
142
'26
All-time total
6,284186 months
↑ Best year
2022899
↓ Worst full year
2012110
Latest full year
2025−14% YoY
§ 01Compensation

Senior pay disclosure is still thin in Austin.

Median bands from the 66 Austin postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.

Range by seniority · 2023–PresentSenior: not enough disclosed pay · n=8 · need 10
Junior$165k n=32
Senior— n=8
Staff+— n=6

Bar = p25 to p75 · tick on Senior = median. Senior & Staff+ shown hatched below the 10-sample floor.

§ 02Work Model

Remote share tracks the US baseline.

Trailing-12-month split, plus the yearly remote / hybrid / onsite mix all the way back.

Remote-friendly · Trailing 12 months
67%
−2 ptsvs US · 69%
Remote
38%
Hybrid
29%
Onsite-only
33%
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share is cooling off in '26
RemoteHybridOnsite
'11
78% rem.
'12
57% rem.
'13
89% rem.
'14
78% rem.
'15
34% rem.
'16
35% rem.
'17
20% rem.
'18
28% rem.
'19
40% rem.
'20
86% rem.
'21
94% rem.
'22
84% rem.
'23
66% rem.
'24
70% rem.
'25
75% rem.
'26
69% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Austin vs US
Austin67% remote-friendly
US average69% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature

An infrastructure and dev-tools city, not a consumer-app one.

Keywords counted across 203 Austin hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.

#01
Top SkillPython
71mentions↓ 8%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
OCT '2535% of postingsSEP '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01Python−8%71
02Rust+149%60
03React−41%54
04TypeScript−26%47
05UX/UI—37
06Ruby on Rails−38%33
07PostgreSQL+20%32
08GitHub−45%30
09JavaScript−24%28
10Go−21%25
Movers · 12-month change
What’s moving
Trending↗
  • 01Terraform+1398%
  • 02PyTorch+925%
  • 03Scala+925%
  • 04Snowflake+925%
Cooling↘
  • 01Ruby−56%
  • 02MongoDB−52%
  • 03GitHub−45%
  • 04React−41%

87% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through Sep 2026)

Role mix · Austin vs USShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
AustinUS baseline
Data Ml
match
9%
13%
−3 pts0.7×
Design
match
3%
3%
0 pts1.0×
Engineering
match
71%
69%
+2 pts1.0×
Executive
match
1%
2%
−0 pts0.8×
Finance Accounting
match
0%
0%
−0 pts0.0×
Healthcare
match
0%
0%
−0 pts0.0×
Legal Compliance
match
0%
0%
−0 pts0.0×
Marketing
match
2%
3%
−0 pts0.8×
Operations
match
0%
1%
−1 pts0.3×
Other
over-indexed
7%
3%
+4 pts2.2×
Product
match
4%
4%
0 pts1.0×
Sales
match
2%
3%
−0 pts0.8×
§ 04Similar Cities

Where else looks like Austin?

Cosine similarity across role mix, work-model split, and skill profile.

CityMatchPosts/moRemote%Sr. median
01
New YorkNew York · US
0.93
13264%$190k02
San FranciscoCalifornia · US
0.93
14648%$190k03
SeattleWashington · US
0.92
2073%$182k04
Los AngelesCalifornia · US
0.91
1716%—05
LondonGB
0.89
4841%$110k

Match score = cosine similarity over (category share, work-model split, top-50 skill share)