City ProfileBerlin · DE

Berlin

Europe's startup capital on HN. Berlin skews toward B2B SaaS, developer tooling, and early-stage engineering teams — a profile that reflects the city's role as a magnet for European founder-engineers.

Postings · May 2026+16%3-mo momentum
41
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingJun '25 → May '26
18 low3-mo avg: 2433.3333 high
Rank · DE
#1of 5 DE cities
Remote-friendly · This month
53%−7 pts vs DE
Share of DE postings
77.4%41 of 50
3-Mo momentum
Rising+16% vs prior 3 mo
§ 00Hiring Volume

Europe's second market by volume; grew faster than London through the 2021–2022 peak.

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
8,610since 2011 · 182 months
+7% YoY2025 vs 2024
970
'22
380
'23
248
'24
265
'25
145
'26
All-time total
8,610182 months
↑ Best year
20211421
↓ Worst full year
201275
Latest full year
2025+7% YoY
§ 01Compensation

Senior pay disclosure is still thin in Berlin.

Median bands from the 11 Berlin postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.

Range by seniority · 2023–PresentSenior: not enough disclosed pay · n=5 · need 10
Senior— n=5

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

§ 02Work Model

Remote share tracks the Germany baseline.

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

Remote-friendly · Trailing 12 months
69%
−1 ptsvs DE · 70%
Remote
18%
Hybrid
51%
Onsite-only
31%
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share is cooling off in '26
RemoteHybridOnsite
'11
29% rem.
'12
42% rem.
'13
82% rem.
'14
89% rem.
'15
38% rem.
'16
36% rem.
'17
25% rem.
'18
21% rem.
'19
32% rem.
'20
67% rem.
'21
81% rem.
'22
94% rem.
'23
83% rem.
'24
78% rem.
'25
72% rem.
'26
66% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Berlin vs DE
Berlin69% remote-friendly
DE average70% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature

B2B SaaS and dev tooling define Berlin — a founder-engineer city.

Keywords counted across 309 Berlin hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.

#01
Top SkillPython
85mentions↓ 32%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
JUN '2528% of postingsMAY '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01Python−32%85
02Hugging Face (Transformers)−30%80
03Amazon Web Services (AWS)−32%79
04TypeScript−7%58
05React+58%55
06Google Cloud−47%52
07Machine Learning−49%51
08PyTorch−47%51
09Microsoft Azure−48%50
10PostgreSQL+202%45
Movers · 12-month change
What’s moving
Trending↗
  • 01Redis+1109%
  • 02CI/CD+384%
  • 03PostgreSQL+202%
  • 04FastAPI+169%
Cooling↘
  • 01TensorFlow / Keras−59%
  • 02Machine Learning−49%
  • 03Microsoft Azure−48%
  • 04PyTorch−47%

61% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through May 2026)

Role mix · Berlin vs DEShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
BerlinDE baseline
Data Ml
match
20%
17%
+3 pts1.2×
Design
match
1%
2%
−0 pts1.0×
Engineering
match
51%
59%
−8 pts0.9×
Executive
match
3%
3%
0 pts1.0×
Finance Accounting
match
1%
1%
+0 pts1.4×
Legal Compliance
match
0%
0%
0 pts1.7×
Marketing
match
3%
3%
+1 pts1.2×
Operations
match
2%
2%
−0 pts0.9×
Other
match
4%
4%
+0 pts1.1×
Product
match
5%
4%
+1 pts1.2×
Sales
over-indexed
8%
5%
+3 pts1.6×
About this page

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