London
The dominant European hiring market on HN and the only non-US city to consistently rank in the global top five. Fintech is the structural anchor, but London's breadth rivals New York — media, enterprise SaaS, and deep tech all feature.
Leads European volume by a wide margin and has done so consistently.
Annual totals for the last five years — every year shown is complete except 2026, hatched because it is still in progress.
Senior eng pays $140k across 2023–Present.
Median bands from the 263 London postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.
9 points less remote-friendly than the United Kingdom baseline.
Trailing-12-month split, plus the yearly remote / hybrid / onsite mix all the way back.
Europe's top market, anchored by fintech and broader than any other non-US city.
Keywords counted across 665 London hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.
75% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through May 2026)
Where else looks like London?
Cosine similarity across role mix, work-model split, and skill profile.
London postings are extracted from monthly HN Who's Hiring? threads using location string matching against a curated city dictionary. London postings are not disaggregated by borough.
- ·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 GB baseline use the same time window on both sides — trailing 12 months for work model, the past 3 years for role mix.