City ProfileLos Angeles · California · USTier 1

Los Angeles

Los Angeles hiring activity from Hacker News "Who's Hiring" threads. Located in California.

Postings · Aug 2026+46%3-mo momentum
23
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingSep '25 → Aug '26
10.3333 low3-mo avg · 1522.3333 high
Rank · US
#3of 30 US cities
Remote-friendly · This month
57%−14 pts vs US
Share of US postings
9.5%23 of 296
3-Mo momentum
Rising+46% vs prior 3 mo
§ 00Hiring Volume

Lagging the US baseline this cycle.

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
9,628since 2011 · 185 months
−10% YoY2025 vs 2024
676
'22
275
'23
248
'24
224
'25
108
'26
All-time total
9,628185 months
↑ Best year
20181242
↓ Worst full year
2025224
Latest full year
2025−10% YoY
§ 01Compensation

Senior pay disclosure is still thin in Los Angeles.

Median bands from the 38 Los Angeles postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.

Range by seniority · 2023–PresentSenior: not enough disclosed pay · n=6 · need 10
Junior— n=5
Mid— n=2
Senior— n=6
Staff+$192k – $962k n=10

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

§ 02Work Model

6 points less remote-friendly than the US baseline.

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

Remote-friendly · Trailing 12 months
64%
−6 ptsvs US · 70%
Remote
37%
Hybrid
27%
Onsite-only
36%
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share is cooling off in '26
RemoteHybridOnsite
'11
89% rem.
'12
71% rem.
'13
85% rem.
'14
60% rem.
'15
52% rem.
'16
36% rem.
'17
22% rem.
'18
23% rem.
'19
24% rem.
'20
58% rem.
'21
77% rem.
'22
83% rem.
'23
77% rem.
'24
62% rem.
'25
75% rem.
'26
51% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Los Angeles vs US
Los Angeles64% remote-friendly
US average70% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature

PostgreSQL tops Los Angeles's skill mentions over the last 12 months.

Keywords counted across 183 Los Angeles hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.

#01
Top SkillPostgreSQL
36mentions↑ 82%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
SEP '2520% of postingsAUG '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01PostgreSQL+82%36
02Python+16%36
03UX/UI+769%33
04YouTube+822%28
05TypeScript−19%27
06C++−47%20
07Kubernetes+229%20
08Go+493%18
09React−45%17
10Node.js+32%13
Movers · 12-month change
What’s moving
Trending↗
  • 01LangChain+1480%
  • 02RAG+954%
  • 03YouTube+822%
  • 04UX/UI+769%
Cooling↘
  • 01Machine Learning−81%
  • 02Rust−71%
  • 03C++−47%
  • 04React−45%

74% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through Aug 2026)

Role mix · Los Angeles vs USShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
Los AngelesUS baseline
Data Ml
match
14%
12%
+2 pts1.1×
Design
match
3%
3%
+1 pts1.3×
Engineering
match
66%
69%
−2 pts1.0×
Executive
match
2%
2%
0 pts1.0×
Finance Accounting
match
0%
0%
−0 pts0.0×
Healthcare
match
0%
0%
−0 pts0.0×
Legal Compliance
match
0%
0%
+0 pts2.0×
Marketing
match
1%
3%
−2 pts0.3×
Operations
match
1%
1%
+0 pts1.3×
Other
over-indexed
6%
3%
+3 pts2.1×
Product
match
5%
4%
+1 pts1.2×
Sales
match
0%
3%
−2 pts0.2×
§ 04Similar Cities

Where else looks like Los Angeles?

Cosine similarity across role mix, work-model split, and skill profile.

CityMatchPosts/moRemote%Sr. median
01
San FranciscoCalifornia · US
0.94
15059%$190k02
New YorkNew York · US
0.93
13360%$190k03
AustinTexas · US
0.92
17100%—04
SeattleWashington · US
0.92
2044%$183k05
LondonGB
0.89
5255%$110k

Match score = cosine similarity over (category share, work-model split, top-50 skill share)