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Los Angeles

Los Angeles hiring activity from Hacker News "Who's Hiring" threads. Located in California.

Postings · Jul 2026+14%3-mo momentum
23
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingAug '25 Jul '26
10.3333 low3-mo avg · 1522.3333 high
Rank · US
#3of 30 US cities
Remote-friendly · This month
48%−18 pts vs US
Share of US postings
8.2%23 of 350
3-Mo momentum
Rising+14% 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
9,605since 2011 · 184 months
−10% YoY2025 vs 2024
676
'22
275
'23
248
'24
224
'25
85
'26
All-time total
9,605184 months
↑ Best year
20181242
↓ Worst full year
2025224
Latest full year
2025−10% YoY
§ 01Compensation

Senior pay disclosure is still thin in Los Angeles.

Median bands from the 39 Los Angeles postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.

Range by seniority · 2023–PresentSenior: not enough disclosed pay · n=6 · need 10
Junior n=5
Mid n=2
Senior n=6
Staff+$192k – $962k n=10

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

§ 02Work Model

Remote share tracks the US baseline.

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

Remote-friendly · Trailing 12 months
66%
−4 ptsvs US · 70%
Remote
36%
Hybrid
30%
Onsite-only
34%
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share is cooling off in '26
RemoteHybridOnsite
'11
89% rem.
'12
71% rem.
'13
85% rem.
'14
60% rem.
'15
52% rem.
'16
36% rem.
'17
22% rem.
'18
23% rem.
'19
24% rem.
'20
58% rem.
'21
77% rem.
'22
83% rem.
'23
77% rem.
'24
62% rem.
'25
75% rem.
'26
49% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Los Angeles vs US
Los Angeles66% remote-friendly
US average70% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature

Python tops Los Angeles's skill mentions over the last 12 months.

Keywords counted across 177 Los Angeles hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.

#01
Top SkillPython
42mentions 68%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
AUG '2524% of postingsJUL '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01Python+68%42
02PostgreSQL+159%40
03TypeScript+36%36
04UX/UI+799%33
05C++−36%24
06Kubernetes+944%23
07YouTube+581%20
08React−45%17
09Go+445%16
10Rust−65%14
Movers · 12-month change
What’s moving
Trending
  • 01LangChain+1534%
  • 02RAG+989%
  • 03Kubernetes+944%
  • 04UX/UI+799%
Cooling
  • 01Machine Learning−73%
  • 02Rust−65%
  • 03React−45%
  • 04Django−41%

77% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through Jul 2026)

Role mix · Los Angeles vs USShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
Los AngelesUS baseline
Data Ml
match
15%
12%
+2 pts1.2×
Design
match
4%
3%
+1 pts1.3×
Engineering
match
66%
69%
−3 pts1.0×
Executive
match
1%
2%
−0 pts0.9×
Finance Accounting
match
0%
0%
−0 pts0.0×
Healthcare
match
0%
0%
−0 pts0.0×
Legal Compliance
match
0%
0%
+0 pts2.1×
Marketing
match
1%
3%
−2 pts0.3×
Operations
match
1%
1%
−0 pts0.9×
Other
over-indexed
6%
3%
+3 pts2.0×
Product
match
5%
4%
+1 pts1.2×
Sales
match
0%
3%
−2 pts0.2×