City ProfileSydney · New South Wales · AU

Sydney

Sydney hiring activity from Hacker News "Who's Hiring" threads. Located in New South Wales.

Postings · May 20260%3-mo momentum
0
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingJun '25 → May '26
0 low3-mo avg: 00.6667 high
Rank · AU
#1of 3 AU cities
Remote-friendly · This month
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Share of AU postings
—
3-Mo momentum
Flat0% vs prior 3 mo
§ 00Hiring Volume

Pulling back alongside the Australia 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
1,439since 2011 · 182 months
+60% YoY2025 vs 2024
68
'22
35
'23
5
'24
8
'25
2
'26
All-time total
1,439182 months
↑ Best year
2019253
↓ Worst full year
20245
Latest full year
2025+60% YoY
§ 01Compensation

Compensation by seniority.

Median bands from the 4 Sydney postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.

Range by seniority · 2023–Present
Staff+— n=2

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

§ 02Work Model

39 points less remote-friendly than the Australia baseline.

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

Remote-friendly · Trailing 12 months
40%
−39 ptsvs AU · 79%
Remote
20%
Hybrid
20%
Onsite-only
60%
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share is cooling off in '23
RemoteHybridOnsite
'13
100% rem.
'14
23% rem.
'15
43% rem.
'16
45% rem.
'17
31% rem.
'18
37% rem.
'19
45% rem.
'20
56% rem.
'21
95% rem.
'22
92% rem.
'23
86% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Sydney vs AU
Sydney40% remote-friendly
AU average79% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature

React tops Sydney's skill mentions over the last 12 months.

Keywords counted across 5 Sydney hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.

#01
Top SkillReact
3mentions
Mentions · Last 12 Months
JUN '2560% of postingsMAY '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01React—3
02TypeScript—3
03Amazon Web Services (AWS)+100%1
04Clickhouse—1
05GitHub—1
06Google Cloud—1
07HTML/CSS—1
08IoT—1
09Next.js—1
10Node.js—1
Movers · 12-month change
What’s moving
Trending↗
  • 01Amazon Web Services (AWS)+100%
  • 02PostgreSQL+100%
Cooling↘

    60% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through May 2026)

    Role mix · Sydney vs AUShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
    SydneyAU baseline
    Data Ml
    over-indexed
    14%
    10%
    +4 pts1.4×
    Design
    match
    3%
    1%
    +1 pts2.0×
    Engineering
    match
    67%
    73%
    −6 pts0.9×
    Executive
    match
    0%
    2%
    −2 pts0.0×
    Finance Accounting
    match
    0%
    0%
    −0 pts0.0×
    Marketing
    match
    3%
    1%
    +2 pts2.6×
    Operations
    match
    3%
    0%
    +2 pts7.8×
    Other
    match
    6%
    4%
    +2 pts1.4×
    Product
    match
    0%
    2%
    −2 pts0.0×
    Sales
    match
    6%
    5%
    +0 pts1.0×
    About this page

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