City ProfileSydney · New South Wales · AU

Sydney

Sydney hiring activity from Hacker News "Who's Hiring" threads. Located in New South Wales.

Postings · Aug 2026+100%3-mo momentum
1
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingSep '25 → Aug '26
0 low3-mo avg · 00.6667 high
Rank · AU
#1of 3 AU cities
Remote-friendly · This month
100%0 pts vs AU
Share of AU postings
50.0%1 of 5
3-Mo momentum
Rising+100% vs prior 3 mo
§ 00Hiring Volume

Climbed faster than the Australia baseline since the 2023 trough.

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
1,441since 2011 · 185 months
+60% YoY2025 vs 2024
68
'22
35
'23
5
'24
8
'25
4
'26
All-time total
1,441185 months
↑ Best year
2019253
↓ Worst full year
20245
Latest full year
2025+60% YoY
§ 01Compensation

Compensation by seniority.

Median bands from the 5 Sydney postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.

Range by seniority · 2023–Present
Staff+— n=2

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

§ 02Work Model

13 points less remote-friendly than the Australia baseline.

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

Remote-friendly · Trailing 12 months
67%
−13 ptsvs AU · 80%
Remote
17%
Hybrid
50%
Onsite-only
33%
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share is cooling off in '23
RemoteHybridOnsite
'13
100% rem.
'14
23% rem.
'15
43% rem.
'16
45% rem.
'17
31% rem.
'18
37% rem.
'19
45% rem.
'20
56% rem.
'21
95% rem.
'22
92% rem.
'23
86% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Sydney vs AU
Sydney67% remote-friendly
AU average80% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature

React tops Sydney's skill mentions over the last 12 months.

Keywords counted across 6 Sydney hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.

#01
Top SkillReact
4mentions
Mentions · Last 12 Months
SEP '2567% of postingsAUG '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01React—4
02TypeScript—4
03Amazon Web Services (AWS)+233%2
04PostgreSQL+233%2
05Scheme—2
06AWS Lambda—1
07Clickhouse—1
08EC2—1
09GitHub—1
10GitHub Actions+67%1
Movers · 12-month change
What’s moving
Trending↗
  • 01Amazon Web Services (AWS)+233%
  • 02PostgreSQL+233%
  • 03GitHub Actions+67%
Cooling↘

    67% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through Aug 2026)

    Role mix · Sydney vs AUShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
    SydneyAU baseline
    Data Ml
    over-indexed
    18%
    10%
    +9 pts1.9×
    Design
    match
    3%
    2%
    +2 pts2.0×
    Engineering
    match
    61%
    72%
    −12 pts0.8×
    Executive
    match
    0%
    2%
    −2 pts0.0×
    Finance Accounting
    match
    0%
    0%
    −0 pts0.0×
    Marketing
    match
    3%
    1%
    +2 pts2.6×
    Operations
    match
    3%
    0%
    +3 pts7.8×
    Other
    match
    6%
    3%
    +3 pts1.7×
    Product
    under-indexed
    0%
    3%
    −3 pts0.0×
    Sales
    match
    6%
    6%
    +0 pts1.0×