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 · Sep 2026−48%3-mo momentum
15
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingOct '25 → Sep '26
10 low3-mo avg · 2030 high
Rank · US
#4of 30 US cities
Remote-friendly · This month
73%+4 pts vs US
Share of US postings
5.1%15 of 372
3-Mo momentum
Falling−48% 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
8,961since 2011 · 186 months
+30% YoY2025 vs 2024
670
'22
197
'23
179
'24
232
'25
147
'26
All-time total
8,961186 months
↑ Best year
20181258
↓ Worst full year
2012149
Latest full year
2025+30% YoY
§ 01Compensation

Pays 4% under San Francisco for senior eng — and 9% over Boston.

Median bands from the 81 Seattle postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.

Senior eng · median · 2023–Present
USD182K
−4%vs San Francisco+9%vs Boston
Range by seniority · 2023–Present
Junior$144k – $164k n=14
Mid— n=4
Senior$170k – $212k n=26
Staff+$188k – $226k n=21

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+4.7%
02
New York
$190k+4.7%
03
Atlanta
$183k+0.5%
04
Seattleyou are here
$182k—
05
Washington DC
$180k−0.8%
06
Chicago
$171k−5.7%
07
Boston
$167k−8.0%

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 · 69%
Remote
19%
Hybrid
50%
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 average69% 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
67mentions↓ 19%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
OCT '2528% of postingsSEP '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01Python−19%67
02TypeScript−34%53
03React−31%51
04PostgreSQL+7%45
05Amazon Web Services (AWS)−15%44
06Kubernetes+81%37
07Rust+278%36
08Go+61%35
09Terraform+169%33
10UX/UI+73%33
Movers · 12-month change
What’s moving
Trending↗
  • 01Apache Kafka+1222%
  • 02Next.js+781%
  • 03X+414%
  • 04Rust+278%
Cooling↘
  • 01Django−67%
  • 02Make−63%
  • 03HTML/CSS−60%
  • 04React Native−58%

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

Role mix · Seattle vs USShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
SeattleUS baseline
Data Ml
over-indexed
17%
13%
+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 pts0.3×
Other
over-indexed
7%
3%
+4 pts2.2×
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
13264%$190k02
LondonGB
0.95
4841%$110k03
San FranciscoCalifornia · US
0.94
14648%$190k04
AustinTexas · US
0.92
1750%—05
Los AngelesCalifornia · US
0.91
1716%—

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