City ProfileSeattle · Washington · USEditorial

Seattle

Cloud and enterprise infrastructure dominate the Seattle hiring profile. The Amazon and Microsoft ecosystems create a gravitational pull toward distributed systems, cloud-native tooling, and large-scale data platforms.

Postings · Jul 2026−42%3-mo momentum
6
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingAug '25 → Jul '26
12.6667 low3-mo avg · 2030 high
Rank · US
#8of 30 US cities
Remote-friendly · This month
83%+17 pts vs US
Share of US postings
2.1%6 of 350
3-Mo momentum
Falling−42% vs prior 3 mo
§ 00Hiring Volume

A steady top-five US market; volume tracks closely with the national enterprise-tech 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
8,937since 2011 · 184 months
+30% YoY2025 vs 2024
670
'22
197
'23
179
'24
232
'25
123
'26
All-time total
8,937184 months
↑ Best year
20181258
↓ Worst full year
2012149
Latest full year
2025+30% YoY
§ 01Compensation

Pays 5% under New York for senior eng — and 13% over Austin.

Median bands from the 74 Seattle postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.

Senior eng · median · 2023–Present
USD180K
−5%vs New York+13%vs Austin
Range by seniority · 2023–Present
Junior$145k – $168k n=13
Mid— n=4
Senior$170k – $212k n=23
Staff+$188k – $225k n=19

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

Senior eng median · US peer cities · 2023–Present
Where Seattle sits in the US distribution
CityMedianvs Seattle
01
New York
$190k+5.6%
02
Washington DC
$185k+2.8%
03
Atlanta
$184k+2.1%
04
Seattleyou are here
$180k—
05
Boston
$167k−7.2%
06
Austin
$160k−11.1%
07
Denver
$160k−11.1%

2023–Present disclosed pay only

§ 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
70%
0 ptsvs US · 70%
Remote
18%
Hybrid
52%
Onsite-only
30%
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share held the line through '24–'26
RemoteHybridOnsite
'11
79% rem.
'12
96% rem.
'13
81% rem.
'14
87% rem.
'15
43% rem.
'16
23% rem.
'17
20% rem.
'18
29% rem.
'19
28% rem.
'20
64% rem.
'21
88% rem.
'22
89% rem.
'23
57% rem.
'24
57% rem.
'25
70% rem.
'26
69% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Seattle vs US
Seattle70% remote-friendly
US average70% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature

Cloud and enterprise infrastructure — the Amazon and Microsoft shadow is real.

Keywords counted across 238 Seattle hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.

#01
Top SkillPython
65mentions↓ 25%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
AUG '2527% of postingsJUL '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01Python−25%65
02React−29%52
03TypeScript−36%51
04Amazon Web Services (AWS)−12%45
05PostgreSQL−3%42
06Go+181%38
07Kubernetes+74%33
08Rust+137%32
09Terraform+238%32
10UX/UI+69%32
Movers · 12-month change
What’s moving
Trending↗
  • 01Next.js+713%
  • 02ChatGPT+418%
  • 03Terraform+238%
  • 04Apache Kafka+233%
Cooling↘
  • 01Django−77%
  • 02React Native−70%
  • 03TypeScript−36%
  • 04Machine Learning−30%

68% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through Jul 2026)

Role mix · Seattle vs USShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
SeattleUS baseline
Data Ml
over-indexed
17%
12%
+5 pts1.4×
Design
match
2%
3%
−1 pts0.6×
Engineering
match
67%
69%
−2 pts1.0×
Executive
match
1%
2%
−1 pts0.5×
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
1%
3%
−2 pts0.3×
Operations
match
0%
1%
−1 pts0.2×
Other
over-indexed
8%
3%
+4 pts2.4×
Product
match
5%
4%
+0 pts1.1×
Sales
match
1%
3%
−2 pts0.2×
§ 04Similar Cities

Where else looks like Seattle?

Cosine similarity across role mix, work-model split, and skill profile.

CityMatchPosts/moRemote%Sr. median
01
New YorkNew York · US
0.96
13440%$190k02
LondonGB
0.96
5362%$110k03
San FranciscoCalifornia · US
0.94
15746%$190k04
AustinTexas · US
0.90
1889%$160k05
Washington DCDC · US
0.63
2513%$185k

Match score = cosine similarity over (category share, work-model split, top-50 skill share)