City ProfileCologne · DE
Cologne
Cologne hiring activity from Hacker News "Who's Hiring" threads.
Postings · May 2026−33%3-mo momentum
1
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingJun '25 → May '26
0 low3-mo avg: 01.3333 high
Rank · DE
#4of 5 DE cities
Remote-friendly · This month
100%+40 pts vs DE
Share of DE postings
1.9%1 of 50
3-Mo momentum
Falling−33% vs prior 3 mo
§ 00Hiring Volume
Climbing faster than the Germany baseline.
Annual totals for the last five years — every year shown is complete except 2026, hatched because it is still in progress.
Full yearPartial yearPeak year
§ 01Compensation
Senior pay disclosure is still thin in Cologne.
Median bands from the 1 Cologne postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.
§ 02Work Model
30 points more remote-friendly than the Germany baseline.
Trailing-12-month split, plus the yearly remote / hybrid / onsite mix all the way back.
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share is climbing back in '23
RemoteHybridOnsite
'1150% rem.
'1575% rem.
'176% rem.
'1831% rem.
'1936% rem.
'2095% rem.
'2117% rem.
'2289% rem.
'23100% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Cologne vs DE
Cologne100% remote-friendly
DE average70% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature
Python tops Cologne's skill mentions over the last 12 months.
Keywords counted across 7 Cologne hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.
100% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through May 2026)
Role mix · Cologne vs DEShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
CologneDE baseline
About this page
Cologne postings are extracted from monthly HN Who's Hiring? threads using location string matching against a curated city dictionary.
Caveats
- ·Trust annual totals over single months — monthly counts can be small, and partial years (hatched) cover only part of the calendar.
- ·Compensation bands use a trailing 3-year window; levels appear only when n ≥ 10.
- ·Comparisons against the DE baseline use the same time window on both sides — trailing 12 months for work model, the past 3 years for role mix.