City ProfileLisbon · PT

Lisbon

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

Postings · May 20260%3-mo momentum
0
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingJun '25 → May '26
0.3333 low3-mo avg: 23.6667 high
Rank · PT
#1of 2 PT cities
Remote-friendly · This month
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Share of PT postings
—
3-Mo momentum
Flat0% 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 yearPeak year
All-time postings
569since 2011 · 182 months
−58% YoY2025 vs 2024
PEAK
116
'22
67
'23
48
'24
20
'25
11
'26
All-time total
569182 months
↑ Best year
2022116
↓ Worst full year
20120
Latest full year
2025−58% YoY
§ 01Compensation

Senior pay disclosure is still thin in Lisbon.

Median bands from the 5 Lisbon postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.

Range by seniority · 2023–PresentSenior: not enough disclosed pay · n=1 · need 10
Senior— n=1

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

§ 02Work Model

17 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
42%
−17 ptsvs PT · 59%
Remote
21%
Hybrid
21%
Onsite-only
58%
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share is climbing back in '25
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.
Trailing 12 months · Lisbon vs PT
Lisbon42% remote-friendly
PT average59% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature

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

Keywords counted across 20 Lisbon hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.

#01
Top SkillGo
11mentions↑ 136%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
JUN '2555% of postingsMAY '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01Go+136%11
02Python+69%9
03TypeScript+93%9
04Cloudflare—5
05Datadog+7%5
06Java+7%5
07Kubernetes+7%5
08React−53%5
09Rust—5
10JavaScript—4
Movers · 12-month change
What’s moving
Trending↗
  • 01Go+136%
  • 02TypeScript+93%
  • 03Python+69%
  • 04Make+50%
Cooling↘
  • 01PostgreSQL−83%
  • 02React−53%
  • 03Node.js−50%

90% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through May 2026)

Role mix · Lisbon vs PTShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
LisbonPT baseline
Data Ml
match
10%
8%
+2 pts1.3×
Design
match
1%
1%
0 pts1.1×
Engineering
match
85%
78%
+7 pts1.1×
Finance Accounting
match
0%
2%
−2 pts0.0×
Marketing
match
0%
0%
−0 pts0.0×
Other
match
4%
2%
+2 pts1.7×
Product
under-indexed
1%
5%
−4 pts0.2×
Sales
under-indexed
0%
4%
−4 pts0.0×
About this page

Lisbon 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 PT baseline use the same time window on both sides — trailing 12 months for work model, the past 3 years for role mix.