City ProfileMadrid · ES

Madrid

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

Postings · Aug 2026
0
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingSep '25 → Aug '26
0 low3-mo avg · 12 high
Rank · ES
#2of 2 ES cities
Remote-friendly · This month
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Share of ES postings
0.0%
3-Mo momentum
Flat—
§ 00Hiring Volume

Pulling back alongside the Spain 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
495since 2011 · 185 months
−20% YoY2025 vs 2024
41
'22
36
'23
20
'24
16
'25
3
'26
All-time total
495185 months
↑ Best year
202084
↓ Worst full year
20134
Latest full year
2025−20% YoY
§ 01Compensation

Senior pay disclosure is still thin in Madrid.

Median bands from the 1 Madrid 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

50 points less remote-friendly than the Spain baseline.

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

Remote-friendly · Trailing 12 months
29%
−50 ptsvs ES · 78%
Remote
14%
Hybrid
14%
Onsite-only
71%
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share is cooling off in '25
RemoteHybridOnsite
'15
15% rem.
'16
82% rem.
'17
68% rem.
'18
38% rem.
'19
50% rem.
'20
91% rem.
'21
98% rem.
'22
98% rem.
'23
100% rem.
'24
55% rem.
'25
50% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Madrid vs ES
Madrid29% remote-friendly
ES average78% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature

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

Keywords counted across 7 Madrid hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.

#01
Top SkillGo
6mentions↑ 54%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
SEP '2586% of postingsAUG '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01Go+54%6
02Python+71%6
03Datadog+47%4
04Java+47%4
05Kubernetes+3%4
06React+14%4
07TypeScript+14%4
08Dagster—2
09Grafana—2
10PostgreSQL—2
Movers · 12-month change
What’s moving
Trending↗
  • 01Terraform+414%
  • 02Python+71%
  • 03Go+54%
  • 04Datadog+47%
Cooling↘

    86% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through Aug 2026)

    Role mix · Madrid vs ESShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
    MadridES baseline
    Data Ml
    match
    13%
    17%
    −4 pts0.8×
    Design
    under-indexed
    0%
    5%
    −5 pts0.0×
    Engineering
    match
    82%
    69%
    +14 pts1.2×
    Executive
    match
    0%
    0%
    −0 pts0.0×
    Marketing
    match
    0%
    1%
    −1 pts0.0×
    Other
    match
    0%
    1%
    −1 pts0.0×
    Product
    match
    4%
    7%
    −2 pts0.7×
    Sales
    match
    0%
    1%
    −1 pts0.0×