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Raleigh-Durham

Raleigh-Durham hiring activity from Hacker News "Who's Hiring" threads. Located in North Carolina.

Postings · Jun 2026+200%3-mo momentum
2
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingJul '25 Jun '26
0 low3-mo avg · 23 high
Rank · US
#14of 30 US cities
Remote-friendly · This month
0%−68 pts vs US
Share of US postings
0.5%2 of 511
3-Mo momentum
Rising+200% 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
1,188since 2011 · 183 months
+200% YoY2025 vs 2024
76
'22
50
'23
4
'24
12
'25
12
'26
All-time total
1,188183 months
↑ Best year
2019164
↓ Worst full year
20244
Latest full year
2025+200% YoY
§ 01Compensation

Senior pay disclosure is still thin in Raleigh-Durham.

Median bands from the 2 Raleigh-Durham postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.

Range by seniority · 2023–PresentSenior: not enough disclosed pay · n=1 · need 10
Junior n=1
Senior n=1

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

§ 02Work Model

6 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
65%
−6 ptsvs US · 71%
Remote
30%
Hybrid
35%
Onsite-only
35%
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share is cooling off in '26
RemoteHybridOnsite
'11
90% rem.
'12
90% rem.
'13
59% rem.
'14
83% rem.
'15
50% rem.
'16
53% rem.
'17
17% rem.
'18
54% rem.
'19
66% rem.
'20
92% rem.
'21
99% rem.
'22
91% rem.
'23
12% rem.
'25
100% rem.
'26
33% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Raleigh-Durham vs US
Raleigh-Durham65% remote-friendly
US average71% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature

Python tops Raleigh-Durham's skill mentions over the last 12 months.

Keywords counted across 23 Raleigh-Durham hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.

#01
Top SkillPython
10mentions
Mentions · Last 12 Months
JUL '2543% of postingsJUN '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01Python10
02Machine Learning9
03PostgreSQL8
04Docker6
05Kubernetes6
06Apache Kafka5
07Go5
08Google Cloud5
09JavaScript5
10OpenTelemetry (OTel)5

78% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through Jun 2026)

Role mix · Raleigh-Durham vs USShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
Raleigh-DurhamUS baseline
Data Ml
match
11%
12%
−1 pts0.9×
Design
match
2%
3%
−1 pts0.6×
Engineering
match
76%
69%
+7 pts1.1×
Executive
match
0%
2%
−1 pts0.0×
Finance Accounting
match
0%
0%
−0 pts0.0×
Healthcare
match
2%
0%
+2 pts29.2×
Legal Compliance
match
0%
0%
−0 pts0.0×
Marketing
match
0%
3%
−3 pts0.0×
Operations
match
2%
1%
+1 pts1.6×
Other
under-indexed
0%
3%
−3 pts0.0×
Product
match
5%
4%
+0 pts1.1×
Sales
match
3%
3%
+1 pts1.2×