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Denver

Denver hiring activity from Hacker News "Who's Hiring" threads. Located in Colorado.

Postings · May 2026+6%3-mo momentum
9
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingJun '25 → May '26
1.6667 low3-mo avg · 58 high
Rank · US
#8of 30 US cities
Remote-friendly · This month
100%+27 pts vs US
Share of US postings
2.0%9 of 518
3-Mo momentum
Rising+6% vs prior 3 mo
§ 00Hiring Volume

Climbed faster than the US 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
2,544since 2011 · 182 months
−7% YoY2025 vs 2024
ALL-TIME PEAK
363
'22
127
'23
45
'24
42
'25
26
'26
All-time total
2,544182 months
↑ Best year
2022363
↓ Worst full year
201233
Latest full year
2025−7% YoY
§ 01Compensation

Pays 5% under Chicago for senior eng.

Median bands from the 44 Denver postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.

Senior eng · median · 2023–Present
USD160K
−5%vs Chicago
Range by seniority · 2023–Present
Junior— n=1
Mid— n=1
Senior$160k – $170k n=28

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

Senior eng median · US peer cities · 2023–Present
Where Denver sits in the US distribution
CityMedianvs Denver
01
Chicago
$169k+5.5%
02
Boston
$167k+4.5%
03
Austin
$160k0%
04
Denveryou are here
$160k—

2023–Present disclosed pay only

§ 02Work Model

5 points more remote-friendly than the US baseline.

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

Remote-friendly · Trailing 12 months
76%
+5 ptsvs US · 71%
Remote
37%
Hybrid
40%
Onsite-only
24%
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share is climbing back in '26
RemoteHybridOnsite
'12
100% rem.
'13
100% rem.
'14
80% rem.
'15
36% rem.
'16
55% rem.
'17
43% rem.
'18
20% rem.
'19
48% rem.
'20
69% rem.
'21
93% rem.
'22
92% rem.
'23
89% rem.
'24
79% rem.
'25
60% rem.
'26
92% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Denver vs US
Denver76% remote-friendly
US average71% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature

Kubernetes tops Denver's skill mentions over the last 12 months.

Keywords counted across 63 Denver hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.

#01
Top SkillKubernetes
32mentions↑ 8%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
JUN '2551% of postingsMAY '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01Kubernetes+8%32
02Docker−5%30
03Java−3%29
04MySQL−13%29
05PostgreSQL−17%29
06OAuth−6%28
07OIDC−6%28
08Airtable—10
09Machine Learning—10
10TypeScript−49%8
Movers · 12-month change
What’s moving
Trending↗
  • 01SQL+129%
  • 02UX/UI+129%
  • 03Kubernetes+8%
Cooling↘
  • 01React−79%
  • 02Amazon Web Services (AWS)−71%
  • 03Python−64%
  • 04Go−62%

89% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through May 2026)

Role mix · Denver vs USShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
DenverUS baseline
Data Ml
under-indexed
5%
12%
−7 pts0.4×
Design
match
1%
3%
−2 pts0.4×
Engineering
match
66%
69%
−4 pts0.9×
Executive
match
4%
2%
+2 pts2.4×
Finance Accounting
match
1%
0%
+1 pts4.5×
Healthcare
match
0%
0%
0 pts0.0×
Legal Compliance
match
0%
0%
−0 pts0.0×
Marketing
over-indexed
6%
3%
+4 pts2.4×
Operations
match
1%
1%
−0 pts0.5×
Other
match
5%
3%
+2 pts1.7×
Product
match
5%
4%
+1 pts1.2×
Sales
match
5%
3%
+3 pts2.1×