City ProfileUtrecht · NL

Utrecht

Utrecht hiring activity from Hacker News "Who's Hiring" threads.

Postings · Sep 2026+600%3-mo momentum
4
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingOct '25 → Sep '26
0 low3-mo avg · 12.3333 high
Rank · NL
#2of 3 NL cities
Remote-friendly · This month
100%+6 pts vs NL
Share of NL postings
26.7%4 of 17
3-Mo momentum
Rising+600% vs prior 3 mo
§ 00Hiring Volume

Climbed faster than the Netherlands baseline since the 2023 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
364since 2011 · 186 months
−55% YoY2025 vs 2024
ALL-TIME PEAK
82
'22
11
'23
22
'24
10
'25
14
'26
All-time total
364186 months
↑ Best year
202282
↓ Worst full year
20121
Latest full year
2025−55% YoY
§ 01Compensation

Not enough disclosed pay yet.

Too few Utrecht postings disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present to chart compensation bands.

Only 1 posting disclosed pay
Compensation bands appear once a seniority level clears the reporting floor. Check back as Utrecht accumulates more disclosed-pay postings.
§ 02Work Model

11 points less remote-friendly than the Netherlands baseline.

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

Remote-friendly · Trailing 12 months
67%
−11 ptsvs NL · 78%
Remote
0%
Hybrid
67%
Onsite-only
33%
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share is cooling off in '26
RemoteHybridOnsite
'15
60% rem.
'16
0% rem.
'17
7% rem.
'18
34% rem.
'19
35% rem.
'20
56% rem.
'21
95% rem.
'22
100% rem.
'24
95% rem.
'26
69% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Utrecht vs NL
Utrecht67% remote-friendly
NL average78% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature

Git tops Utrecht's skill mentions over the last 12 months.

Keywords counted across 16 Utrecht hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.

#01
Top SkillGit
11mentions
Mentions · Last 12 Months
OCT '2569% of postingsSEP '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01Git—11
02Kubernetes+400%10
03PostgreSQL−18%9
04Python−36%9
05TypeScript+350%9
06Terraform−27%8
07GitHub—7
08LinkedIn—7
09React+600%7
10Go+300%4
Movers · 12-month change
What’s moving
Trending↗
  • 01React+600%
  • 02Kubernetes+400%
  • 03TypeScript+350%
  • 04Go+300%
Cooling↘
  • 01Ansible−91%
  • 02Haskell−91%
  • 03Nix−91%
  • 04Rust−91%

100% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through Sep 2026)

Role mix · Utrecht vs NLShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
UtrechtNL baseline
Data Ml
under-indexed
4%
17%
−13 pts0.2×
Design
match
4%
1%
+3 pts3.1×
Engineering
over-indexed
88%
62%
+26 pts1.4×
Executive
match
2%
3%
−0 pts0.8×
Finance Accounting
match
0%
0%
−0 pts0.0×
Legal Compliance
match
2%
0%
+2 pts18.4×
Marketing
match
0%
1%
−1 pts0.0×
Operations
match
0%
3%
−2 pts0.0×
Other
under-indexed
0%
4%
−4 pts0.0×
Product
under-indexed
0%
4%
−4 pts0.0×
Sales
under-indexed
0%
5%
−5 pts0.0×