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Denver

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

Postings · Aug 2026−21%3-mo momentum
6
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingSep '25 Aug '26
3.6667 low3-mo avg · 68 high
Rank · US
#7of 30 US cities
Remote-friendly · This month
100%+29 pts vs US
Share of US postings
2.5%6 of 296
3-Mo momentum
Falling−21% vs prior 3 mo
§ 00Hiring Volume

Pulling back alongside the US baseline.

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
2,559since 2011 · 185 months
−7% YoY2025 vs 2024
ALL-TIME PEAK
363
'22
127
'23
45
'24
42
'25
41
'26
All-time total
2,559185 months
↑ Best year
2022363
↓ Worst full year
201233
Latest full year
2025−7% YoY
§ 01Compensation

Pays 12% under Atlanta for senior eng.

Median bands from the 46 Denver postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.

Senior eng · median · 2023–Present
USD160K
−12%vs Atlanta
Range by seniority · 2023–Present
Junior n=1
Mid n=1
Senior$160k – $173k n=30

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
Atlanta
$183k+14.1%
02
Chicago
$171k+7.0%
03
Boston
$167k+4.4%
04
Denveryou are here
$160k

2023–Present disclosed pay only

§ 02Work Model

13 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
83%
+13 ptsvs US · 70%
Remote
39%
Hybrid
44%
Onsite-only
17%
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
95% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Denver vs US
Denver83% remote-friendly
US average70% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature

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

Keywords counted across 70 Denver hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.

#01
Top SkillKubernetes
41mentions 11%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
SEP '2559% of postingsAUG '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01Kubernetes+11%41
02Java+25%39
03MySQL+25%39
04PostgreSQL+11%39
05Docker+3%38
06OAuth+22%38
07OIDC+22%38
08Airtable10
09Machine Learning10
10TypeScript−59%8
Movers · 12-month change
What’s moving
Trending
  • 01UX/UI+106%
  • 02Java+25%
  • 03MySQL+25%
  • 04OAuth+22%
Cooling
  • 01Python−93%
  • 02Amazon Web Services (AWS)−81%
  • 03React−81%
  • 04Go−77%

89% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through Aug 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
62%
69%
−7 pts0.9×
Executive
match
3%
2%
+1 pts1.9×
Finance Accounting
match
1%
0%
+0 pts2.7×
Healthcare
match
0%
0%
−0 pts0.0×
Legal Compliance
match
0%
0%
−0 pts0.0×
Marketing
over-indexed
7%
3%
+4 pts2.5×
Operations
match
1%
1%
−0 pts0.6×
Other
over-indexed
6%
3%
+3 pts2.1×
Product
match
5%
4%
+1 pts1.2×
Sales
over-indexed
9%
3%
+6 pts3.3×