City ProfileWarsaw · PL

Warsaw

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

Postings · Sep 20260%3-mo momentum
3
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingOct '25 → Sep '26
0 low3-mo avg · 27 high
Rank · PL
#1of 2 PL cities
Remote-friendly · This month
0%−86 pts vs PL
Share of PL postings
100.0%3 of 22
3-Mo momentum
Flat0% vs prior 3 mo
§ 00Hiring Volume

Pulling back alongside the Poland baseline.

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
532since 2011 · 186 months
−21% YoY2025 vs 2024
41
'22
1
'23
47
'24
37
'25
8
'26
All-time total
532186 months
↑ Best year
201897
↓ Worst full year
20130
Latest full year
2025−21% YoY
§ 01Compensation

Compensation by seniority.

Median bands from the 3 Warsaw postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.

Range by seniority · 2023–Present
Staff+— n=1

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

§ 02Work Model

13 points less remote-friendly than the Poland baseline.

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

Remote-friendly · Trailing 12 months
85%
−13 ptsvs PL · 98%
Remote
0%
Hybrid
85%
Onsite-only
15%
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share is cooling off in '25
RemoteHybridOnsite
'17
11% rem.
'18
23% rem.
'19
50% rem.
'20
82% rem.
'21
82% rem.
'22
100% rem.
'24
100% rem.
'25
89% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Warsaw vs PL
Warsaw85% remote-friendly
PL average98% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature

UX/UI tops Warsaw's skill mentions over the last 12 months.

Keywords counted across 29 Warsaw hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.

#01
Top SkillUX/UI
20mentions↑ 268%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
OCT '2569% of postingsSEP '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01UX/UI+268%20
02Cloudflare—3
03Python—3
04RAG—3
05Snowflake—3
06Amazon Web Services (AWS)—2
07CI/CD—2
08Docker—2
09Google Cloud—2
10GraphQL—2
Movers · 12-month change
What’s moving
Trending↗
  • 01UX/UI+268%
Cooling↘
  • 01Kubernetes−88%
  • 02Node.js−88%
  • 03TypeScript−88%

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

Role mix · Warsaw vs PLShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
WarsawPL baseline
Data Ml
over-indexed
21%
14%
+7 pts1.5×
Design
match
0%
1%
−1 pts0.0×
Engineering
match
76%
70%
+6 pts1.1×
Executive
match
2%
2%
+0 pts1.2×
Marketing
match
0%
0%
−0 pts0.0×
Other
under-indexed
0%
5%
−5 pts0.0×
Product
under-indexed
1%
7%
−6 pts0.2×
Sales
match
0%
1%
−1 pts0.0×