City ProfileBerlin · DE

Berlin

Europe's startup capital on HN. Berlin skews toward B2B SaaS, developer tooling, and early-stage engineering teams — a profile that reflects the city's role as a magnet for European founder-engineers.

Postings · Jun 2026+5%3-mo momentum
23
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingJul '25 Jun '26
18 low3-mo avg · 2533.3333 high
Rank · DE
#1of 5 DE cities
Remote-friendly · This month
43%−1 pts vs DE
Share of DE postings
79.3%23 of 28
3-Mo momentum
Flat+5% vs prior 3 mo
§ 00Hiring Volume

Europe's second market by volume; grew faster than London through the 2021–2022 peak.

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
8,633since 2011 · 183 months
+7% YoY2025 vs 2024
970
'22
380
'23
248
'24
265
'25
168
'26
All-time total
8,633183 months
↑ Best year
20211421
↓ Worst full year
201275
Latest full year
2025+7% YoY
§ 01Compensation

Senior pay disclosure is still thin in Berlin.

Median bands from the 8 Berlin postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.

Range by seniority · 2023–PresentSenior: not enough disclosed pay · n=3 · need 10
Senior n=3

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

§ 02Work Model

Remote share tracks the Germany baseline.

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

Remote-friendly · Trailing 12 months
67%
−1 ptsvs DE · 68%
Remote
18%
Hybrid
49%
Onsite-only
33%
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share is cooling off in '26
RemoteHybridOnsite
'11
29% rem.
'12
42% rem.
'13
82% rem.
'14
89% rem.
'15
38% rem.
'16
36% rem.
'17
25% rem.
'18
21% rem.
'19
32% rem.
'20
67% rem.
'21
81% rem.
'22
94% rem.
'23
83% rem.
'24
78% rem.
'25
72% rem.
'26
62% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Berlin vs DE
Berlin67% remote-friendly
DE average68% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature

B2B SaaS and dev tooling define Berlin — a founder-engineer city.

Keywords counted across 313 Berlin hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.

#01
Top SkillPython
94mentions 25%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
JUL '2530% of postingsJUN '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01Python−25%94
02Amazon Web Services (AWS)−32%79
03Hugging Face (Transformers)−32%79
04TypeScript+39%73
05React+122%70
06Google Cloud−39%60
07PostgreSQL+280%55
08Machine Learning−49%50
09PyTorch−49%50
10Microsoft Azure−50%49
Movers · 12-month change
What’s moving
Trending
  • 01FastAPI+1345%
  • 02CI/CD+356%
  • 03PostgreSQL+280%
  • 04Elixir+204%
Cooling
  • 01TensorFlow / Keras−60%
  • 02Microsoft Azure−50%
  • 03Machine Learning−49%
  • 04PyTorch−49%

64% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through Jun 2026)

Role mix · Berlin vs DEShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
BerlinDE baseline
Data Ml
match
21%
18%
+3 pts1.2×
Design
match
2%
2%
0 pts1.0×
Engineering
match
51%
58%
−7 pts0.9×
Executive
match
3%
3%
+0 pts1.0×
Finance Accounting
match
1%
0%
+0 pts1.6×
Marketing
match
4%
3%
+1 pts1.2×
Operations
match
2%
2%
−0 pts0.9×
Other
match
4%
4%
+0 pts1.0×
Product
match
5%
5%
+1 pts1.2×
Sales
over-indexed
9%
5%
+3 pts1.6×