Seattle
Cloud and enterprise infrastructure dominate the Seattle hiring profile. The Amazon and Microsoft ecosystems create a gravitational pull toward distributed systems, cloud-native tooling, and large-scale data platforms.
A steady top-five US market; volume tracks closely with the national enterprise-tech cycle.
Annual totals for the last five years — every year shown is complete except 2026, hatched because it is still in progress.
Pays 7% under New York for senior eng — and 16% over Austin.
Median bands from the 187 Seattle postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.
Remote share tracks the US baseline.
Trailing-12-month split, plus the yearly remote / hybrid / onsite mix all the way back.
Cloud and enterprise infrastructure — the Amazon and Microsoft shadow is real.
Keywords counted across 239 Seattle hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.
69% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through May 2026)
Where else looks like Seattle?
Cosine similarity across role mix, work-model split, and skill profile.
Seattle postings are extracted from monthly HN Who's Hiring? threads using location string matching against a curated city dictionary. Seattle postings include Bellevue and the Eastside tech corridor.
- ·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.