City ProfileDenver · Colorado · US

Denver

Denver hiring activity from Hacker News "Who's Hiring" threads. Located in Colorado.

Postings · Jun 2026+58%3-mo momentum
5
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingJul '25 Jun '26
1.6667 low3-mo avg · 58 high
Rank · US
#9of 30 US cities
Remote-friendly · This month
100%+32 pts vs US
Share of US postings
1.3%5 of 511
3-Mo momentum
Rising+58% vs prior 3 mo
§ 00Hiring Volume

Climbed faster than the US baseline since the 2024 trough.

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
2,549since 2011 · 183 months
−7% YoY2025 vs 2024
ALL-TIME PEAK
363
'22
127
'23
45
'24
42
'25
31
'26
All-time total
2,549183 months
↑ Best year
2022363
↓ Worst full year
201233
Latest full year
2025−7% YoY
§ 01Compensation

Pays 5% under Chicago for senior eng.

Median bands from the 45 Denver postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.

Senior eng · median · 2023–Present
USD160K
−5%vs Chicago
Range by seniority · 2023–Present
Junior n=1
Mid n=1
Senior$160k – $170k n=29

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

Senior eng median · US peer cities · 2023–Present
Where Denver sits in the US distribution
CityMedianvs Denver
01
Chicago
$169k+5.5%
02
Boston
$167k+4.4%
03
Austin
$160k0%
04
Denveryou are here
$160k

2023–Present disclosed pay only

§ 02Work Model

9 points more remote-friendly than the US baseline.

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

Remote-friendly · Trailing 12 months
80%
+9 ptsvs US · 71%
Remote
41%
Hybrid
39%
Onsite-only
20%
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share is climbing back in '26
RemoteHybridOnsite
'12
100% rem.
'13
100% rem.
'14
80% rem.
'15
36% rem.
'16
55% rem.
'17
43% rem.
'18
20% rem.
'19
48% rem.
'20
69% rem.
'21
93% rem.
'22
92% rem.
'23
89% rem.
'24
79% rem.
'25
60% rem.
'26
94% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Denver vs US
Denver80% remote-friendly
US average71% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature

Kubernetes tops Denver's skill mentions over the last 12 months.

Keywords counted across 66 Denver hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.

#01
Top SkillKubernetes
34mentions 2%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
JUL '2552% of postingsJUN '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01Kubernetes−2%34
02Docker−5%33
03Java−3%32
04MySQL−8%32
05PostgreSQL−13%32
06OAuth−6%31
07OIDC−6%31
08Airtable10
09Machine Learning10
10TypeScript−52%8
Movers · 12-month change
What’s moving
Trending
  • 01UX/UI+118%
Cooling
  • 01React−80%
  • 02Amazon Web Services (AWS)−73%
  • 03Python−65%
  • 04Go−64%

88% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through Jun 2026)

Role mix · Denver vs USShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
DenverUS baseline
Data Ml
under-indexed
6%
12%
−7 pts0.4×
Design
match
1%
3%
−2 pts0.4×
Engineering
match
65%
69%
−4 pts0.9×
Executive
match
3%
2%
+1 pts1.8×
Finance Accounting
match
1%
0%
+0 pts2.4×
Healthcare
match
0%
0%
−0 pts0.0×
Legal Compliance
match
0%
0%
−0 pts0.0×
Marketing
over-indexed
7%
3%
+4 pts2.5×
Operations
match
1%
1%
−0 pts0.5×
Other
over-indexed
6%
3%
+3 pts2.0×
Product
match
5%
4%
+1 pts1.1×
Sales
over-indexed
7%
3%
+4 pts2.5×