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Washington DC

Washington DC hiring activity from Hacker News "Who's Hiring" threads. Located in DC.

Postings · May 2026−1%3-mo momentum
30
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingJun '25 → May '26
22.3333 low3-mo avg: 2834.6667 high
Rank · US
#3of 30 US cities
Remote-friendly · This month
52%−21 pts vs US
Share of US postings
6.6%30 of 518
3-Mo momentum
Flat−1% vs prior 3 mo
§ 00Hiring Volume

Pulling back alongside the US 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
5,860since 2011 · 182 months
+26% YoY2025 vs 2024
530
'22
287
'23
269
'24
338
'25
138
'26
All-time total
5,860182 months
↑ Best year
2015605
↓ Worst full year
2012100
Latest full year
2025+26% YoY
§ 01Compensation

Pays 5% under New York for senior eng — and 19% over Austin.

Median bands from the 209 Washington DC postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.

Senior eng · median · 2023–Present
USD190K
−5%vs New York+19%vs Austin
Range by seniority · 2023–Present
Junior— n=8
Senior$173k – $203k n=128
Staff+$190k – $962k n=71

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

Senior eng median · US peer cities · 2023–Present
Where Washington DC sits in the US distribution
CityMedianvs Washington DC
01
New York
$200k+5.3%
02
San Francisco
$190k0%
03
Washington DCyou are here
$190k—
04
Seattle
$185k−2.6%
05
Austin
$160k−15.8%

2023–Present disclosed pay only

§ 02Work Model

Remote share tracks the US baseline.

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

Remote-friendly · Trailing 12 months
73%
+2 ptsvs US · 71%
Remote
12%
Hybrid
60%
Onsite-only
27%
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share is cooling off in '26
RemoteHybridOnsite
'11
80% rem.
'12
97% rem.
'13
64% rem.
'14
90% rem.
'15
46% rem.
'16
39% rem.
'17
38% rem.
'18
29% rem.
'19
31% rem.
'20
52% rem.
'21
77% rem.
'22
71% rem.
'23
60% rem.
'24
76% rem.
'25
83% rem.
'26
59% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Washington DC vs US
Washington DC73% remote-friendly
US average71% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature

TypeScript tops Washington DC's skill mentions over the last 12 months.

Keywords counted across 338 Washington DC hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.

#01
Top SkillTypeScript
184mentions↑ 97%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
JUN '2554% of postingsMAY '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01TypeScript+97%184
02Linux (non-WSL)+19%181
03Python−15%173
04React+52%169
05Java+26%154
06CUDA+30%153
07Git+30%153
08Jenkins+30%153
09Windows+30%153
10c++23+124%153
Movers · 12-month change
What’s moving
Trending↗
  • 01C+++5247%
  • 02c++23+124%
  • 03TypeScript+97%
  • 04React+52%
Cooling↘
  • 01Kubernetes−87%
  • 02Machine Learning−86%
  • 03Terraform−86%
  • 04Apache Kafka−85%

62% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through May 2026)

Role mix · Washington DC vs USShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
Washington DCUS baseline
Data Ml
under-indexed
8%
12%
−4 pts0.7×
Design
match
2%
3%
−1 pts0.5×
Engineering
match
78%
69%
+9 pts1.1×
Executive
match
0%
2%
−1 pts0.3×
Finance Accounting
match
0%
0%
−0 pts0.0×
Healthcare
match
0%
0%
0 pts0.0×
Legal Compliance
match
0%
0%
−0 pts0.0×
Marketing
match
1%
3%
−2 pts0.2×
Operations
match
1%
1%
−0 pts0.5×
Other
over-indexed
8%
3%
+5 pts2.5×
Product
match
2%
4%
−2 pts0.4×
Sales
match
1%
3%
−2 pts0.3×
§ 04Similar Cities

Where else looks like Washington DC?

Cosine similarity across role mix, work-model split, and skill profile.

CityMatchPosts/moRemote%Sr. median
01
New YorkNew York · US
0.69
13749%$200k02
LondonGB
0.68
5548%$140k03
SeattleWashington · US
0.66
2092%$185k04
San FranciscoCalifornia · US
0.65
17057%$190k05
Los AngelesCalifornia · US
0.63
1664%—

Match score = cosine similarity over (category share, work-model split, top-50 skill share)

About this page

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