City ProfileCape Town · ZA
Cape Town
Cape Town hiring activity from Hacker News "Who's Hiring" threads.
Postings · May 2026
0
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingJun '25 → May '26
0 low3-mo avg: 00 high
Rank · ZA
#1of 1 ZA cities
Remote-friendly · This month
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Share of ZA postings
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3-Mo momentum
Flat—
§ 00Hiring Volume
Holding flat against the ZA 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
§ 01Compensation
Not enough disclosed pay yet.
Too few Cape Town postings disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present to chart compensation bands.
No postings disclosed pay
Compensation bands appear once a seniority level clears the reporting floor. Check back as Cape Town accumulates more disclosed-pay postings.
§ 02Work Model
Remote share tracks the ZA baseline.
Trailing-12-month split, plus the yearly remote / hybrid / onsite mix all the way back.
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share held the line through '14–'19
RemoteHybridOnsite
'12100% rem.
'14100% rem.
'1885% rem.
'1983% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Cape Town vs ZA
Cape Town0% remote-friendly
ZA average100% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature
An AI-and-data city above all else.
Share of Cape Town postings mentioning each skill over the last 12 months. Posts frequently list multiple skills.
Role mix · Cape Town vs ZAShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
Cape TownZA baseline
About this page
Cape Town 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 ZA baseline use the same time window on both sides — trailing 12 months for work model, the past 3 years for role mix.