Tel Aviv
The most cybersecurity-dense hiring market in the index. Tel Aviv's tech sector grew out of the defense and intelligence ecosystem and that origin remains legible in the skill mix — network security, cryptography, and threat intelligence appear at multiples of global rates.
Leads the Middle East by a wide margin; consistently top-15 globally.
Annual totals for the last five years — every year shown is complete except 2026, hatched because it is still in progress.
Not enough disclosed pay yet.
Too few Tel Aviv postings disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present to chart compensation bands.
20 points less remote-friendly than the Israel baseline.
Trailing-12-month split, plus the yearly remote / hybrid / onsite mix all the way back.
Cybersecurity and deep tech — the defense-to-commercial pipeline is structural.
Keywords counted across 11 Tel Aviv hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.
100% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through May 2026)
Tel Aviv postings are extracted from monthly HN Who's Hiring? threads using location string matching against a curated city dictionary. Tel Aviv postings include the Tel Aviv–Yafo metro area and Herzliya 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 IL baseline use the same time window on both sides — trailing 12 months for work model, the past 3 years for role mix.