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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 · May 2026−15%3-mo momentum
23
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingJun '25 → May '26
11 low3-mo avg · 1621.6667 high
Rank · US
#4of 30 US cities
Remote-friendly · This month
100%+27 pts vs US
Share of US postings
5.0%23 of 518
3-Mo momentum
Falling−15% 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
6,228since 2011 · 182 months
−14% YoY2025 vs 2024
ALL-TIME PEAK
899
'22
311
'23
220
'24
189
'25
86
'26
All-time total
6,228182 months
↑ Best year
2022899
↓ Worst full year
2012110
Latest full year
2025−14% YoY
§ 01Compensation

Pays 11% under Washington DC for senior eng.

Median bands from the 68 Austin postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.

Senior eng · median · 2023–Present
USD160K
−11%vs Washington DC
Range by seniority · 2023–Present
Junior$165k n=30
Senior$160k – $184k n=13
Staff+— n=6

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

Senior eng median · US peer cities · 2023–Present
Where Austin sits in the US distribution
CityMedianvs Austin
01
Washington DC
$180k+12.5%
02
Chicago
$169k+5.5%
03
Boston
$167k+4.5%
04
Austinyou are here
$160k—
05
Denver
$160k0%

2023–Present disclosed pay only

§ 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
70%
−1 ptsvs US · 71%
Remote
42%
Hybrid
28%
Onsite-only
30%
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
70% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Austin vs US
Austin70% remote-friendly
US average71% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature

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

Keywords counted across 199 Austin hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.

#01
Top SkillPython
87mentions↑ 88%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
JUN '2544% of postingsMAY '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01Python+88%87
02React−25%65
03Rust+1166%60
04TypeScript−22%48
05Ruby on Rails+0%44
06JavaScript+229%39
07GitHub−26%36
08Ruby−8%35
09Elixir—33
10PHP+153%33
Movers · 12-month change
What’s moving
Trending↗
  • 01Rust+1166%
  • 02Redis+1082%
  • 03Scala+660%
  • 04Next.js+294%
Cooling↘
  • 01React Native−59%
  • 02Go−47%
  • 03Amazon Web Services (AWS)−37%
  • 04GitHub−26%

88% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through May 2026)

Role mix · Austin vs USShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
AustinUS baseline
Data Ml
match
9%
12%
−3 pts0.7×
Design
match
4%
3%
+1 pts1.3×
Engineering
match
71%
69%
+2 pts1.0×
Executive
match
1%
2%
−0 pts0.9×
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%
−1 pts0.7×
Operations
match
0%
1%
−1 pts0.3×
Other
match
6%
3%
+3 pts1.9×
Product
match
5%
4%
+1 pts1.2×
Sales
match
2%
3%
−1 pts0.7×
§ 04Similar Cities

Where else looks like Austin?

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

CityMatchPosts/moRemote%Sr. median
01
San FranciscoCalifornia · US
0.91
17057%$190k02
New YorkNew York · US
0.90
13749%$190k03
Los AngelesCalifornia · US
0.88
1664%—04
LondonGB
0.88
5548%$100k05
SeattleWashington · US
0.87
2092%$183k

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