City ProfilePalo Alto · California · US

Palo Alto

Palo Alto hiring activity from Hacker News "Who's Hiring" threads. Located in California.

Postings · May 2026+200%3-mo momentum
5
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingJun '25 → May '26
2.6667 low3-mo avg: 58.6667 high
Rank · US
#11of 30 US cities
Remote-friendly · This month
100%+27 pts vs US
Share of US postings
1.1%5 of 518
3-Mo momentum
Rising+200% 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 yearPeak year
All-time postings
5,305since 2011 · 182 months
−45% YoY2025 vs 2024
495
'22
225
'23
104
'24
57
'25
31
'26
All-time total
5,305182 months
↑ Best year
2015587
↓ Worst full year
202557
Latest full year
2025−45% YoY
§ 01Compensation

Senior pay disclosure is still thin in Palo Alto.

Median bands from the 31 Palo Alto postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.

Range by seniority · 2023–PresentSenior: not enough disclosed pay · n=4 · need 10
Junior— n=8
Senior— n=4

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

§ 02Work Model

58 points less 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
13%
−58 ptsvs US · 71%
Remote
6%
Hybrid
6%
Onsite-only
87%
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share is cooling off in '26
RemoteHybridOnsite
'11
70% rem.
'12
74% rem.
'13
72% rem.
'14
46% rem.
'15
36% rem.
'16
28% rem.
'17
26% rem.
'18
29% rem.
'19
16% rem.
'20
49% rem.
'21
77% rem.
'22
71% rem.
'23
52% rem.
'24
36% rem.
'25
33% rem.
'26
23% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Palo Alto vs US
Palo Alto13% remote-friendly
US average71% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature

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

Keywords counted across 71 Palo Alto hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.

#01
Top SkillKubernetes
24mentions↑ 33%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
JUN '2534% of postingsMAY '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01Kubernetes+33%24
02React+1408%21
03Node.js—19
04Python−38%19
05Amazon Web Services (AWS)+169%15
06Terraform+169%15
07TypeScript−28%14
08X—12
09Helm—11
10Docker—10
Movers · 12-month change
What’s moving
Trending↗
  • 01React+1408%
  • 02Jenkins+187%
  • 03Amazon Web Services (AWS)+169%
  • 04Terraform+169%
Cooling↘
  • 01Linux (non-WSL)−81%
  • 02Make−52%
  • 03Python−38%
  • 04TypeScript−28%

59% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through May 2026)

Role mix · Palo Alto vs USShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
Palo AltoUS baseline
Data Ml
match
13%
12%
+1 pts1.1×
Design
match
1%
3%
−1 pts0.5×
Engineering
match
78%
69%
+9 pts1.1×
Executive
match
1%
2%
−1 pts0.6×
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
1%
3%
−1 pts0.5×
Operations
match
0%
1%
−1 pts0.0×
Other
match
3%
3%
−0 pts0.9×
Product
match
2%
4%
−2 pts0.4×
Sales
match
0%
3%
−2 pts0.1×
About this page

Palo Alto 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 US baseline use the same time window on both sides — trailing 12 months for work model, the past 3 years for role mix.