City ProfileLisbon · PT

Lisbon

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

Postings · Jun 2026+40%3-mo momentum
1
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingJul '25 Jun '26
0.3333 low3-mo avg · 23.6667 high
Rank · PT
#1of 2 PT cities
Remote-friendly · This month
0%0 pts vs PT
Share of PT postings
100.0%1 of 1
3-Mo momentum
Rising+40% vs prior 3 mo
§ 00Hiring Volume

Pulling back alongside 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
570since 2011 · 183 months
−58% YoY2025 vs 2024
ALL-TIME PEAK
116
'22
67
'23
48
'24
20
'25
12
'26
All-time total
570183 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 2 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
40%
−17 ptsvs PT · 57%
Remote
20%
Hybrid
20%
Onsite-only
60%
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share is cooling off in '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
36% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Lisbon vs PT
Lisbon40% remote-friendly
PT average57% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature

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

Keywords counted across 21 Lisbon hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.

#01
Top SkillGo
12mentions 145%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
JUL '2557% of postingsJUN '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01Go+145%12
02Python+79%10
03TypeScript+104%10
04Datadog+22%6
05Java+22%6
06Kubernetes+22%6
07React−46%6
08Cloudflare5
09Rust5
10JavaScript4
Movers · 12-month change
What’s moving
Trending
  • 01Go+145%
  • 02TypeScript+104%
  • 03Python+79%
  • 04Make+43%
Cooling
  • 01PostgreSQL−84%
  • 02Node.js−52%
  • 03React−46%

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

Role mix · Lisbon vs PTShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
LisbonPT baseline
Data Ml
match
10%
8%
+3 pts1.3×
Design
match
1%
1%
0 pts1.0×
Engineering
match
84%
77%
+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×