City ProfilePhoenix · Arizona · US

Phoenix

Phoenix hiring activity from Hacker News "Who's Hiring" threads. Located in Arizona.

Postings · Jun 2026−50%3-mo momentum
1
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingJul '25 Jun '26
0.6667 low3-mo avg · 12.3333 high
Rank · US
#16of 30 US cities
Remote-friendly · This month
100%+32 pts vs US
Share of US postings
0.3%1 of 511
3-Mo momentum
Falling−50% vs prior 3 mo
§ 00Hiring Volume

Holding flat against the US 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
1,558since 2011 · 183 months
−59% YoY2025 vs 2024
125
'22
25
'23
71
'24
29
'25
6
'26
All-time total
1,558183 months
↑ Best year
2021341
↓ Worst full year
20139
Latest full year
2025−59% YoY
§ 01Compensation

Senior pay disclosure is still thin in Phoenix.

Median bands from the 7 Phoenix postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.

Range by seniority · 2023–PresentSenior: not enough disclosed pay · n=2 · need 10
Junior n=1
Senior n=2
Staff+ n=2

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

§ 02Work Model

12 points more 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
83%
+12 ptsvs US · 71%
Remote
42%
Hybrid
42%
Onsite-only
17%
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share is cooling off in '25
RemoteHybridOnsite
'15
55% rem.
'16
34% rem.
'17
37% rem.
'18
35% rem.
'19
48% rem.
'20
73% rem.
'21
94% rem.
'22
100% rem.
'23
100% rem.
'24
97% rem.
'25
86% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Phoenix vs US
Phoenix83% remote-friendly
US average71% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature

Phoenix tops Phoenix's skill mentions over the last 12 months.

Keywords counted across 12 Phoenix hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.

#01
Top SkillPhoenix
10mentions 14%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
JUL '2583% of postingsJUN '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01Phoenix−14%10
02Elixir+2%9
03PostgreSQL+22%7
04React−3%5
05TypeScript+50%5
06CI/CD+306%3
07JavaScript+132%3
08Amazon Web Services (AWS)−17%2
09Terraform+261%2
10AWS Lambda+442%1
Movers · 12-month change
What’s moving
Trending
  • 01AWS Lambda+442%
  • 02GitHub Actions+442%
  • 03Node.js+442%
  • 04Prisma+442%
Cooling
  • 01Python−64%
  • 02GraphQL−51%
  • 03Google Cloud−32%
  • 04Amazon Web Services (AWS)−17%

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

Role mix · Phoenix vs USShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
PhoenixUS baseline
Data Ml
under-indexed
1%
12%
−11 pts0.1×
Design
match
4%
3%
+2 pts1.6×
Engineering
match
88%
69%
+18 pts1.3×
Executive
match
3%
2%
+1 pts1.7×
Finance Accounting
match
0%
0%
−0 pts0.0×
Healthcare
match
0%
0%
−0 pts0.0×
Legal Compliance
match
0%
0%
−0 pts0.0×
Marketing
match
2%
3%
−1 pts0.7×
Operations
match
0%
1%
−1 pts0.0×
Other
under-indexed
0%
3%
−3 pts0.0×
Product
match
2%
4%
−3 pts0.4×
Sales
match
1%
3%
−2 pts0.3×