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Vancouver hiring activity from Hacker News "Who's Hiring" threads. Located in British Columbia.

Postings · Jun 2026+367%3-mo momentum
10
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingJul '25 Jun '26
0 low3-mo avg · 25 high
Rank · CA
#2of 5 CA cities
Remote-friendly · This month
80%−17 pts vs CA
Share of CA postings
41.7%10 of 84
3-Mo momentum
Rising+367% vs prior 3 mo
§ 00Hiring Volume

Climbed faster than the Canada baseline since the 2024 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
2,697since 2011 · 183 months
−60% YoY2025 vs 2024
166
'22
134
'23
73
'24
29
'25
17
'26
All-time total
2,697183 months
↑ Best year
2021401
↓ Worst full year
202529
Latest full year
2025−60% YoY
§ 01Compensation

Senior pay disclosure is still thin in Vancouver.

Median bands from the 7 Vancouver postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.

Range by seniority · 2023–PresentSenior: not enough disclosed pay · n=4 · need 10
Senior n=4
Staff+ n=1

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

§ 02Work Model

30 points less remote-friendly than the Canada baseline.

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

Remote-friendly · Trailing 12 months
66%
−30 ptsvs CA · 96%
Remote
24%
Hybrid
41%
Onsite-only
34%
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share is climbing back in '26
RemoteHybridOnsite
'11
95% rem.
'12
67% rem.
'13
65% rem.
'14
23% rem.
'15
24% rem.
'16
14% rem.
'17
49% rem.
'18
24% rem.
'19
26% rem.
'20
47% rem.
'21
92% rem.
'22
57% rem.
'23
91% rem.
'24
91% rem.
'25
69% rem.
'26
88% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Vancouver vs CA
Vancouver66% remote-friendly
CA average96% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature

UX/UI tops Vancouver's skill mentions over the last 12 months.

Keywords counted across 32 Vancouver hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.

#01
Top SkillUX/UI
9mentions
Mentions · Last 12 Months
JUL '2528% of postingsJUN '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01UX/UI9
02PostgreSQL7
03Python−74%6
04Ruby on Rails5
05Docker4
06Go−63%4
07Make−18%4
08Amazon Web Services (AWS)3
09BigQuery3
10Google Cloud−38%3
Movers · 12-month change
What’s moving
Trending
  • 01JavaScript+3%
Cooling
  • 01Python−74%
  • 02SQL−74%
  • 03React−71%
  • 04TypeScript−71%

81% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through Jun 2026)

Role mix · Vancouver vs CAShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
VancouverCA baseline
Data Ml
over-indexed
20%
13%
+7 pts1.5×
Design
match
4%
3%
+0 pts1.0×
Engineering
match
71%
63%
+8 pts1.1×
Executive
match
1%
3%
−2 pts0.4×
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
2%
3%
−1 pts0.6×
Operations
match
0%
1%
−1 pts0.0×
Other
under-indexed
0%
4%
−4 pts0.0×
Product
under-indexed
3%
6%
−3 pts0.4×
Sales
under-indexed
0%
3%
−3 pts0.0×