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Hong Kong hiring activity from Hacker News "Who's Hiring" threads.

Postings · May 2026+100%3-mo momentum
1
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingJun '25 → May '26
0.3333 low3-mo avg: 34.6667 high
Rank · HK
#1of 1 HK cities
Remote-friendly · This month
0%0 pts vs HK
Share of HK postings
100.0%1 of 1
3-Mo momentum
Rising+100% vs prior 3 mo
§ 00Hiring Volume

Pulling back alongside the HK 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
1,559since 2011 · 182 months
+27% YoY2025 vs 2024
234
'22
33
'23
26
'24
33
'25
3
'26
All-time total
1,559182 months
↑ Best year
2017239
↓ Worst full year
201216
Latest full year
2025+27% YoY
§ 01Compensation

Senior pay disclosure is still thin in Hong Kong.

Median bands from the 1 Hong Kong postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.

Range by seniority · 2023–PresentSenior: not enough disclosed pay · n=1 · need 10
Senior— n=1

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

§ 02Work Model

Remote share tracks the HK baseline.

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

Remote-friendly · Trailing 12 months
93%
0 ptsvs HK · 93%
Remote
3%
Hybrid
90%
Onsite-only
7%
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share held the line through '23–'25
RemoteHybridOnsite
'12
60% rem.
'13
92% rem.
'14
58% rem.
'15
29% rem.
'16
51% rem.
'17
36% rem.
'18
40% rem.
'19
70% rem.
'20
85% rem.
'21
99% rem.
'22
100% rem.
'23
100% rem.
'24
100% rem.
'25
100% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Hong Kong vs HK
Hong Kong93% remote-friendly
HK average93% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature

Machine Learning tops Hong Kong's skill mentions over the last 12 months.

Keywords counted across 30 Hong Kong hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.

#01
Top SkillMachine Learning
27mentions↑ 350%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
JUN '2590% of postingsMAY '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01Machine Learning+350%27
02OCaml−6%27
03PyTorch—3
04NumPy—2
05Pandas—2
06Python—2
07Ray (Ray Serve)—2
08Android—1
09Ansible—1
10GitHub Actions—1
Movers · 12-month change
What’s moving
Trending↗
  • 01Machine Learning+350%
Cooling↘
  • 01Linux (non-WSL)−72%
  • 02OCaml−6%

100% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through May 2026)

Role mix · Hong Kong vs HKShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
Hong KongHK baseline
Data Ml
match
25%
28%
−3 pts0.9×
Design
match
6%
7%
−1 pts0.9×
Engineering
match
61%
60%
+1 pts1.0×
Executive
match
3%
0%
+3 pts—
Other
match
5%
5%
−0 pts0.9×
About this page

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