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 · May 2026−8%3-mo momentum
16
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingJun '25 → May '26
11 low3-mo avg · 2030 high
Rank · US
#6of 30 US cities
Remote-friendly · This month
92%+19 pts vs US
Share of US postings
3.5%16 of 518
3-Mo momentum
Falling−8% 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
8,910since 2011 · 182 months
+30% YoY2025 vs 2024
670
'22
197
'23
179
'24
232
'25
96
'26
All-time total
8,910182 months
↑ Best year
20181258
↓ Worst full year
2012149
Latest full year
2025+30% YoY
§ 01Compensation

Pays 4% under San Francisco for senior eng — and 8% over Chicago.

Median bands from the 70 Seattle postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.

Senior eng · median · 2023–Present
USD183K
−4%vs San Francisco+8%vs Chicago
Range by seniority · 2023–Present
Junior$145k – $168k n=13
Mid— n=4
Senior$172k – $212k n=20
Staff+$188k – $409k n=18

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+4.1%
02
New York
$190k+4.1%
03
Seattleyou are here
$183k—
04
Atlanta
$183k0%
05
Washington DC
$180k−1.4%
06
Chicago
$169k−7.5%

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
67%
−4 ptsvs US · 71%
Remote
16%
Hybrid
51%
Onsite-only
33%
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
65% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Seattle vs US
Seattle67% remote-friendly
US average71% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature

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

Keywords counted across 239 Seattle hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.

#01
Top SkillPython
69mentions↓ 3%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
JUN '2529% of postingsMAY '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01Python−3%69
02Amazon Web Services (AWS)+35%53
03TypeScript−19%53
04React−21%52
05Go+305%41
06PostgreSQL−1%40
07Kubernetes+124%34
08Rust+348%34
09Terraform+322%32
10UX/UI+47%26
Movers · 12-month change
What’s moving
Trending↗
  • 01ChatGPT+1086%
  • 02C+++691%
  • 03Rust+348%
  • 04Terraform+322%
Cooling↘
  • 01HTML/CSS−70%
  • 02Django−65%
  • 03React Native−62%
  • 04Machine Learning−25%

69% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through May 2026)

Role mix · Seattle vs USShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
SeattleUS baseline
Data Ml
over-indexed
17%
12%
+4 pts1.4×
Design
match
1%
3%
−1 pts0.5×
Engineering
match
68%
69%
−2 pts1.0×
Executive
match
1%
2%
−1 pts0.6×
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
1%
3%
−2 pts0.3×
Operations
match
0%
1%
−1 pts0.2×
Other
over-indexed
8%
3%
+5 pts2.5×
Product
match
4%
4%
−0 pts1.0×
Sales
match
1%
3%
−2 pts0.3×
§ 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
0.97
13749%$190k02
LondonGB
0.97
5548%$100k03
San FranciscoCalifornia · US
0.94
17057%$190k04
Los AngelesCalifornia · US
0.92
1664%—05
AustinTexas · US
0.87
17100%$160k

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