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Portland

Portland hiring activity from Hacker News "Who's Hiring" threads. Located in Oregon.

Postings · May 2026
1
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingJun '25 May '26
0 low3-mo avg: 25.6667 high
Rank · US
#16of 30 US cities
Remote-friendly · This month
100%+27 pts vs US
Share of US postings
0.2%1 of 518
3-Mo momentum
Flat
§ 00Hiring Volume

Pulling back alongside the US 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
1,788since 2011 · 182 months
+68% YoY2025 vs 2024
159
'22
34
'23
19
'24
32
'25
2
'26
All-time total
1,788182 months
↑ Best year
2017286
↓ Worst full year
202419
Latest full year
2025+68% YoY
§ 01Compensation

Senior pay disclosure is still thin in Portland.

Median bands from the 3 Portland postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.

Range by seniority · 2023–PresentSenior: not enough disclosed pay · n=2 · need 10
Senior n=2

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

§ 02Work Model

8 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
79%
+8 ptsvs US · 71%
Remote
0%
Hybrid
79%
Onsite-only
21%
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share is cooling off in '25
RemoteHybridOnsite
'11
87% rem.
'12
90% rem.
'13
75% rem.
'14
87% rem.
'15
71% rem.
'16
44% rem.
'17
42% rem.
'18
62% rem.
'19
56% rem.
'20
83% rem.
'21
100% rem.
'22
99% rem.
'23
91% rem.
'24
100% rem.
'25
81% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Portland vs US
Portland79% remote-friendly
US average71% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature

Go tops Portland's skill mentions over the last 12 months.

Keywords counted across 29 Portland hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.

#01
Top SkillGo
10mentions 124%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
JUN '2534% of postingsMAY '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01Go+124%10
02Kubernetes10
03Amazon Web Services (AWS)+34%6
04TypeScript6
05PostgreSQL+12%5
06C−10%4
07C++−55%4
08CI/CD4
09Docker4
10Google Cloud4
Movers · 12-month change
What’s moving
Trending
  • 01Go+124%
  • 02Amazon Web Services (AWS)+34%
  • 03PostgreSQL+12%
Cooling
  • 01Make−91%
  • 02React−78%
  • 03C++−55%
  • 04C−10%

59% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through May 2026)

Role mix · Portland vs USShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
PortlandUS baseline
Data Ml
over-indexed
25%
12%
+13 pts2.1×
Design
match
0%
3%
−3 pts0.0×
Engineering
match
67%
69%
−2 pts1.0×
Executive
match
0%
2%
−2 pts0.0×
Finance Accounting
match
0%
0%
−0 pts0.0×
Healthcare
match
0%
0%
0 pts0.0×
Legal Compliance
match
1%
0%
+1 pts10.1×
Marketing
match
1%
3%
−1 pts0.6×
Operations
match
0%
1%
−1 pts0.0×
Other
match
1%
3%
−2 pts0.5×
Product
match
3%
4%
−1 pts0.7×
Sales
match
0%
3%
−3 pts0.0×
About this page

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