City ProfilePhoenix · Arizona · US

Phoenix

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

Postings · Aug 2026+125%3-mo momentum
3
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingSep '25 → Aug '26
0.6667 low3-mo avg · 13 high
Rank · US
#14of 30 US cities
Remote-friendly · This month
100%+29 pts vs US
Share of US postings
1.2%3 of 296
3-Mo momentum
Rising+125% vs prior 3 mo
§ 00Hiring Volume

Climbing faster than 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
1,566since 2011 · 185 months
−59% YoY2025 vs 2024
125
'22
25
'23
71
'24
29
'25
14
'26
All-time total
1,566185 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 8 Phoenix postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.

Range by seniority · 2023–PresentSenior: not enough disclosed pay · n=3 · need 10
Junior— n=1
Senior— n=3
Staff+— n=2

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

§ 02Work Model

19 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
89%
+19 ptsvs US · 70%
Remote
58%
Hybrid
32%
Onsite-only
11%
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share is climbing back in '26
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.
'26
93% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Phoenix vs US
Phoenix89% remote-friendly
US average70% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature

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

Keywords counted across 19 Phoenix hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.

#01
Top SkillPhoenix
17mentions↓ 6%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
SEP '2589% of postingsAUG '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01Phoenix−6%17
02Elixir+8%16
03PostgreSQL+26%12
04React+11%11
05TypeScript+68%9
06GraphQL+10%5
07React Native+304%5
08C—4
09Amazon Web Services (AWS)−39%3
10CI/CD+82%3
Movers · 12-month change
What’s moving
Trending↗
  • 01React Native+304%
  • 02AWS Lambda+142%
  • 03GitHub Actions+142%
  • 04Node.js+142%
Cooling↘
  • 01Amazon Web Services (AWS)−39%
  • 02Google Cloud−39%
  • 03ECS / EKS−19%
  • 04Next.js−19%

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

Role mix · Phoenix vs USShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
PhoenixUS baseline
Data Ml
under-indexed
3%
12%
−10 pts0.2×
Design
match
4%
3%
+2 pts1.5×
Engineering
match
86%
69%
+17 pts1.2×
Executive
match
3%
2%
+1 pts1.6×
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 pts0.6×
Operations
match
0%
1%
−1 pts0.0×
Other
under-indexed
0%
3%
−3 pts0.0×
Product
match
3%
4%
−2 pts0.6×
Sales
match
1%
3%
−2 pts0.3×