City ProfileOslo · NO

Oslo

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

Postings · Sep 2026−100%3-mo momentum
0
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingOct '25 → Sep '26
0 low3-mo avg · 11.3333 high
Rank · NO
#1of 1 NO cities
Remote-friendly · This month
—
Share of NO postings
—
3-Mo momentum
Falling−100% vs prior 3 mo
§ 00Hiring Volume

Lagging the Norway 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
901since 2011 · 186 months
−72% YoY2025 vs 2024
64
'22
26
'23
18
'24
5
'25
7
'26
All-time total
901186 months
↑ Best year
2021211
↓ Worst full year
20121
Latest full year
2025−72% YoY
§ 01Compensation

Senior pay disclosure is still thin in Oslo.

Median bands from the 3 Oslo postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.

Range by seniority · 2023–PresentSenior: not enough disclosed pay · n=2 · need 10
Senior— n=2

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

§ 02Work Model

Remote share tracks the Norway baseline.

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

Remote-friendly · Trailing 12 months
100%
+4 ptsvs NO · 96%
Remote
43%
Hybrid
57%
Onsite-only
0%
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share is climbing back in '24
RemoteHybridOnsite
'14
0% rem.
'15
0% rem.
'16
5% rem.
'17
24% rem.
'18
7% rem.
'19
6% rem.
'20
53% rem.
'21
70% rem.
'22
35% rem.
'23
46% rem.
'24
50% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Oslo vs NO
Oslo100% remote-friendly
NO average96% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature

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

Keywords counted across 8 Oslo hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.

#01
Top SkillGo
3mentions↑ 75%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
OCT '2538% of postingsSEP '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01Go+75%3
02Linux (non-WSL)—3
03Rust+5%3
04TypeScript—3
05Amazon Web Services (AWS)—2
06C+++17%2
07Docker—2
08Expo—2
09Jenkins—2
10Next.js—2
Movers · 12-month change
What’s moving
Trending↗
  • 01Go+75%
  • 02C+++17%
  • 03React Native+17%
  • 04Rust+5%
Cooling↘

    100% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through Sep 2026)

    Role mix · Oslo vs NOShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
    OsloNO baseline
    Data Ml
    under-indexed
    5%
    15%
    −9 pts0.4×
    Design
    match
    3%
    2%
    +1 pts1.7×
    Engineering
    match
    81%
    76%
    +5 pts1.1×
    Executive
    match
    3%
    2%
    +1 pts1.7×
    Marketing
    match
    0%
    2%
    −2 pts0.0×
    Other
    over-indexed
    8%
    5%
    +3 pts1.7×