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Barcelona

Barcelona hiring activity from Hacker News "Who's Hiring" threads. Located in Catalonia.

Postings · May 2026−39%3-mo momentum
5
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingJun '25 May '26
3.3333 low3-mo avg: 913.3333 high
Rank · ES
#1of 2 ES cities
Remote-friendly · This month
100%+11 pts vs ES
Share of ES postings
100.0%5 of 12
3-Mo momentum
Falling−39% vs prior 3 mo
§ 00Hiring Volume

Climbed faster than the Spain 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 yearPeak year
All-time postings
1,329since 2011 · 182 months
+128% YoY2025 vs 2024
81
'22
22
'23
32
'24
73
'25
50
'26
All-time total
1,329182 months
↑ Best year
2017201
↓ Worst full year
201422
Latest full year
2025+128% YoY
§ 01Compensation

Senior pay disclosure is still thin in Barcelona.

Median bands from the 31 Barcelona postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.

Range by seniority · 2023–PresentSenior: not enough disclosed pay · n=8 · need 10
Senior n=8
Staff+ n=4

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

§ 02Work Model

Remote share tracks the Spain baseline.

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

Remote-friendly · Trailing 12 months
80%
+1 ptsvs ES · 79%
Remote
20%
Hybrid
59%
Onsite-only
20%
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share is cooling off in '26
RemoteHybridOnsite
'11
100% rem.
'12
17% rem.
'13
55% rem.
'14
86% rem.
'15
30% rem.
'16
37% rem.
'17
29% rem.
'18
42% rem.
'19
45% rem.
'20
62% rem.
'21
81% rem.
'22
99% rem.
'23
95% rem.
'24
91% rem.
'25
85% rem.
'26
67% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Barcelona vs ES
Barcelona80% remote-friendly
ES average79% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature

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

Keywords counted across 106 Barcelona hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.

#01
Top SkillTypeScript
23mentions 182%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
JUN '2522% of postingsMAY '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01TypeScript+182%23
02Amazon Web Services (AWS)+176%15
03Rust+415%14
04Python+342%12
05Go−19%11
06React+268%10
07RAG8
08Terraform+194%8
09ChatGPT7
10PHP7
Movers · 12-month change
What’s moving
Trending
  • 01Rust+415%
  • 02Python+342%
  • 03React+268%
  • 04Terraform+194%
Cooling
  • 01C++−75%
  • 02Java−26%
  • 03Go−19%

33% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through May 2026)

Role mix · Barcelona vs ESShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
BarcelonaES baseline
Data Ml
match
20%
16%
+4 pts1.2×
Design
match
7%
5%
+2 pts1.5×
Engineering
match
64%
70%
−6 pts0.9×
Executive
match
0%
0%
−0 pts0.0×
Marketing
match
0%
1%
−1 pts0.0×
Other
match
0%
1%
−1 pts0.0×
Product
match
9%
7%
+2 pts1.3×
Sales
match
0%
0%
−0 pts0.0×
About this page

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