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 · Aug 2026−40%3-mo momentum
9
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingSep '25 → Aug '26
12 low3-mo avg · 2030 high
Rank · US
#5of 30 US cities
Remote-friendly · This month
44%−26 pts vs US
Share of US postings
3.7%9 of 296
3-Mo momentum
Falling−40% 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
8,946since 2011 · 185 months
+30% YoY2025 vs 2024
670
'22
197
'23
179
'24
232
'25
132
'26
All-time total
8,946185 months
↑ Best year
20181258
↓ Worst full year
2012149
Latest full year
2025+30% YoY
§ 01Compensation

Pays 4% under San Francisco for senior eng — and 10% over Boston.

Median bands from the 76 Seattle postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.

Senior eng · median · 2023–Present
USD183K
−4%vs San Francisco+10%vs Boston
Range by seniority · 2023–Present
Junior$145k – $168k n=13
Mid— n=4
Senior$173k – $212k n=25
Staff+$188k – $225k n=20

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
San Francisco
$190k+3.8%
02
New York
$190k+3.8%
03
Washington DC
$185k+1.1%
04
Seattleyou are here
$183k—
05
Atlanta
$183k−0.3%
06
Chicago
$171k−6.4%
07
Boston
$167k−8.7%

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
69%
−1 ptsvs US · 70%
Remote
18%
Hybrid
51%
Onsite-only
31%
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share is cooling off in '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
67% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Seattle vs US
Seattle69% remote-friendly
US average70% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature

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

Keywords counted across 237 Seattle hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.

#01
Top SkillPython
65mentions↓ 22%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
SEP '2527% of postingsAUG '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01Python−22%65
02TypeScript−41%50
03React−37%49
04Amazon Web Services (AWS)−9%46
05PostgreSQL−11%41
06Terraform+238%34
07Go+44%33
08Rust+283%33
09Kubernetes+39%32
10UX/UI+59%32
Movers · 12-month change
What’s moving
Trending↗
  • 01Next.js+666%
  • 02Apache Kafka+353%
  • 03GitHub+318%
  • 04LinkedIn+318%
Cooling↘
  • 01Django−77%
  • 02React Native−67%
  • 03TypeScript−41%
  • 04Machine Learning−39%

66% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through Aug 2026)

Role mix · Seattle vs USShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
SeattleUS baseline
Data Ml
over-indexed
17%
12%
+4 pts1.3×
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
7%
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
13360%$190k02
LondonGB
0.96
5255%$110k03
San FranciscoCalifornia · US
0.94
15059%$190k04
Los AngelesCalifornia · US
0.92
1557%—05
AustinTexas · US
0.91
17100%—

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