City ProfileMelbourne · Victoria · AU
Melbourne
Melbourne hiring activity from Hacker News "Who's Hiring" threads. Located in Victoria.
Postings · May 2026−100%3-mo momentum
0
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingJun '25 → May '26
0 low3-mo avg: 12.3333 high
Rank · AU
#2of 3 AU cities
Remote-friendly · This month
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Share of AU postings
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3-Mo momentum
Falling−100% vs prior 3 mo
§ 00Hiring Volume
Pulling back alongside the Australia 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
§ 01Compensation
Senior pay disclosure is still thin in Melbourne.
Median bands from the 5 Melbourne postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.
§ 02Work Model
21 points more remote-friendly than the Australia baseline.
Trailing-12-month split, plus the yearly remote / hybrid / onsite mix all the way back.
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share is climbing back in '25
RemoteHybridOnsite
'1539% rem.
'1620% rem.
'1716% rem.
'1845% rem.
'1932% rem.
'2059% rem.
'2175% rem.
'2287% rem.
'2371% rem.
'2458% rem.
'25100% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Melbourne vs AU
Melbourne100% remote-friendly
AU average79% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature
Amazon Web Services (AWS) tops Melbourne's skill mentions over the last 12 months.
Keywords counted across 11 Melbourne hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.
36% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through May 2026)
Role mix · Melbourne vs AUShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
MelbourneAU baseline
About this page
Melbourne 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 AU baseline use the same time window on both sides — trailing 12 months for work model, the past 3 years for role mix.