City ProfileLisbon · PT

Lisbon

Lisbon hiring activity from Hacker News "Who's Hiring" threads.

Postings · Aug 2026+67%3-mo momentum
0
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingSep '25 Aug '26
0.3333 low3-mo avg · 23.6667 high
Rank · PT
#1of 2 PT cities
Remote-friendly · This month
Share of PT postings
3-Mo momentum
Rising+67% vs prior 3 mo
§ 00Hiring Volume

Rising in step with the Portugal baseline.

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
579since 2011 · 185 months
−58% YoY2025 vs 2024
ALL-TIME PEAK
116
'22
67
'23
48
'24
20
'25
21
'26
All-time total
579185 months
↑ Best year
2022116
↓ Worst full year
20120
Latest full year
2025−58% YoY
§ 01Compensation

Not enough disclosed pay yet.

Too few Lisbon postings disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present to chart compensation bands.

No postings disclosed pay
Compensation bands appear once a seniority level clears the reporting floor. Check back as Lisbon accumulates more disclosed-pay postings.
§ 02Work Model

12 points less remote-friendly than the Portugal baseline.

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

Remote-friendly · Trailing 12 months
57%
−12 ptsvs PT · 69%
Remote
13%
Hybrid
43%
Onsite-only
43%
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share held the line through '24'26
RemoteHybridOnsite
'16
88% rem.
'17
47% rem.
'18
17% rem.
'19
54% rem.
'20
77% rem.
'21
83% rem.
'22
90% rem.
'23
84% rem.
'24
58% rem.
'25
65% rem.
'26
65% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Lisbon vs PT
Lisbon57% remote-friendly
PT average69% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature

Python tops Lisbon's skill mentions over the last 12 months.

Keywords counted across 24 Lisbon hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.

#01
Top SkillPython
14mentions 59%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
SEP '2558% of postingsAUG '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01Python+59%14
02Java+132%13
03Kubernetes+132%13
04React+2%13
05Go+79%10
06Amazon Web Services (AWS)9
07Apache Kafka9
08Docker9
09Node.js−6%9
10Scala9
Movers · 12-month change
What’s moving
Trending
  • 01Java+132%
  • 02Kubernetes+132%
  • 03Go+79%
  • 04Python+59%
Cooling
  • 01PostgreSQL−86%
  • 02JavaScript−58%
  • 03TypeScript−38%
  • 04Datadog−29%

92% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through Aug 2026)

Role mix · Lisbon vs PTShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
LisbonPT baseline
Data Ml
match
12%
9%
+3 pts1.3×
Design
match
1%
1%
0 pts1.0×
Engineering
match
85%
79%
+6 pts1.1×
Finance Accounting
match
0%
2%
−2 pts0.0×
Other
match
1%
1%
0 pts1.0×
Product
match
1%
4%
−3 pts0.3×
Sales
under-indexed
0%
4%
−4 pts0.0×