City ProfileDubai · AE
Dubai
Dubai hiring activity from Hacker News "Who's Hiring" threads.
Postings · May 2026−20%3-mo momentum
0
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingJun '25 → May '26
0 low3-mo avg: 12.3333 high
Rank · AE
#1of 1 AE cities
Remote-friendly · This month
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Share of AE postings
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3-Mo momentum
Falling−20% vs prior 3 mo
§ 00Hiring Volume
Climbed faster than the AE 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 yearPeak year
§ 01Compensation
Not enough disclosed pay yet.
Too few Dubai postings disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present to chart compensation bands.
No postings disclosed pay
Compensation bands appear once a seniority level clears the reporting floor. Check back as Dubai accumulates more disclosed-pay postings.
§ 02Work Model
Remote share tracks the AE baseline.
Trailing-12-month split, plus the yearly remote / hybrid / onsite mix all the way back.
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share is cooling off in '24
RemoteHybridOnsite
'16100% rem.
'1721% rem.
'1835% rem.
'1976% rem.
'20100% rem.
'2194% rem.
'2386% rem.
'2454% rem.
§ 03City Signature
ArgoCD tops Dubai's skill mentions over the last 12 months.
Keywords counted across 13 Dubai hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.
54% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through May 2026)
About this page
Dubai postings are extracted from monthly HN Who's Hiring? threads using location string matching against a curated city dictionary.
Caveats
- ·Trust annual totals over single months — monthly counts can be small, and partial years (hatched) cover only part of the calendar.
- ·Compensation bands use a trailing 3-year window; levels appear only when n ≥ 10.
- ·Comparisons against the AE baseline use the same time window on both sides — trailing 12 months for work model, the past 3 years for role mix.