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Raleigh-Durham

Raleigh-Durham hiring activity from Hacker News "Who's Hiring" threads. Located in North Carolina.

Postings · May 2026+300%3-mo momentum
2
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingJun '25 → May '26
0 low3-mo avg: 23 high
Rank · US
#15of 30 US cities
Remote-friendly · This month
0%−73 pts vs US
Share of US postings
0.4%2 of 518
3-Mo momentum
Rising+300% vs prior 3 mo
§ 00Hiring Volume

Climbed faster than the US baseline since the 2024 trough.

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
All-time postings
1,186since 2011 · 182 months
+200% YoY2025 vs 2024
76
'22
50
'23
4
'24
12
'25
10
'26
All-time total
1,186182 months
↑ Best year
2019164
↓ Worst full year
20244
Latest full year
2025+200% YoY
§ 01Compensation

Senior pay disclosure is still thin in Raleigh-Durham.

Median bands from the 6 Raleigh-Durham postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.

Range by seniority · 2023–PresentSenior: not enough disclosed pay · n=5 · need 10
Junior— n=1
Senior— n=5

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

§ 02Work Model

Remote share tracks the US baseline.

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

Remote-friendly · Trailing 12 months
73%
+2 ptsvs US · 71%
Remote
32%
Hybrid
41%
Onsite-only
27%
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share is climbing back in '25
RemoteHybridOnsite
'11
90% rem.
'12
90% rem.
'13
59% rem.
'14
83% rem.
'15
50% rem.
'16
53% rem.
'17
17% rem.
'18
54% rem.
'19
66% rem.
'20
92% rem.
'21
99% rem.
'22
91% rem.
'23
12% rem.
'25
100% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Raleigh-Durham vs US
Raleigh-Durham73% remote-friendly
US average71% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature

PostgreSQL tops Raleigh-Durham's skill mentions over the last 12 months.

Keywords counted across 22 Raleigh-Durham hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.

#01
Top SkillPostgreSQL
8mentions
Mentions · Last 12 Months
JUN '2536% of postingsMAY '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01PostgreSQL—8
02Python—8
03Machine Learning—7
04Docker—6
05Kubernetes—6
06Apache Kafka—5
07Go—5
08Google Cloud—5
09JavaScript—5
10OpenTelemetry (OTel)—5
Movers · 12-month change
What’s moving
Trending↗
    Cooling↘
    • 01TypeScript−82%
    • 02React−73%

    73% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through May 2026)

    Role mix · Raleigh-Durham vs USShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
    Raleigh-DurhamUS baseline
    Data Ml
    match
    10%
    12%
    −2 pts0.8×
    Design
    match
    2%
    3%
    −1 pts0.6×
    Engineering
    match
    77%
    69%
    +8 pts1.1×
    Executive
    match
    0%
    2%
    −2 pts0.0×
    Finance Accounting
    match
    0%
    0%
    −0 pts0.0×
    Healthcare
    match
    2%
    0%
    +2 pts33.2×
    Legal Compliance
    match
    0%
    0%
    −0 pts0.0×
    Marketing
    match
    0%
    3%
    −3 pts0.0×
    Operations
    match
    2%
    1%
    +1 pts1.6×
    Other
    under-indexed
    0%
    3%
    −3 pts0.0×
    Product
    match
    5%
    4%
    +1 pts1.1×
    Sales
    match
    3%
    3%
    +1 pts1.3×
    About this page

    Raleigh-Durham 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 US baseline use the same time window on both sides — trailing 12 months for work model, the past 3 years for role mix.