City ProfileSeattle · Washington · USEditorial

Seattle

Cloud and enterprise infrastructure dominate the Seattle hiring profile. The Amazon and Microsoft ecosystems create a gravitational pull toward distributed systems, cloud-native tooling, and large-scale data platforms.

Postings · Jun 2026−2%3-mo momentum
21
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingJul '25 → Jun '26
11 low3-mo avg · 2030 high
Rank · US
#4of 30 US cities
Remote-friendly · This month
76%+9 pts vs US
Share of US postings
5.4%21 of 511
3-Mo momentum
Flat−2% vs prior 3 mo
§ 00Hiring Volume

A steady top-five US market; volume tracks closely with the national enterprise-tech cycle.

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
8,931since 2011 · 183 months
+30% YoY2025 vs 2024
670
'22
197
'23
179
'24
232
'25
117
'26
All-time total
8,931183 months
↑ Best year
20181258
↓ Worst full year
2012149
Latest full year
2025+30% YoY
§ 01Compensation

Pays 5% under San Francisco for senior eng — and 8% over Boston.

Median bands from the 75 Seattle postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.

Senior eng · median · 2023–Present
USD180K
−5%vs San Francisco+8%vs Boston
Range by seniority · 2023–Present
Junior$145k – $168k n=13
Mid— n=4
Senior$170k – $212k n=23
Staff+$188k – $225k n=19

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

Senior eng median · US peer cities · 2023–Present
Where Seattle sits in the US distribution
CityMedianvs Seattle
01
San Francisco
$190k+5.6%
02
New York
$190k+5.6%
03
Atlanta
$184k+2.1%
04
Seattleyou are here
$180k—
05
Washington DC
$180k0%
06
Chicago
$169k−6.3%
07
Boston
$167k−7.2%

2023–Present disclosed pay only

§ 02Work Model

Remote share tracks the US baseline.

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

Remote-friendly · Trailing 12 months
69%
−2 ptsvs US · 71%
Remote
18%
Hybrid
51%
Onsite-only
31%
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share is cooling off in '26
RemoteHybridOnsite
'11
79% rem.
'12
96% rem.
'13
81% rem.
'14
87% rem.
'15
43% rem.
'16
23% rem.
'17
20% rem.
'18
29% rem.
'19
28% rem.
'20
64% rem.
'21
88% rem.
'22
89% rem.
'23
57% rem.
'24
57% rem.
'25
70% rem.
'26
68% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Seattle vs US
Seattle69% remote-friendly
US average71% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature

Cloud and enterprise infrastructure — the Amazon and Microsoft shadow is real.

Keywords counted across 251 Seattle hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.

#01
Top SkillPython
71mentions↓ 14%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
JUL '2528% of postingsJUN '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01Python−14%71
02TypeScript−21%57
03React−23%56
04Amazon Web Services (AWS)−6%47
05PostgreSQL+2%44
06Go+259%40
07Kubernetes+109%35
08Rust+306%34
09Terraform+282%32
10UX/UI+64%32
Movers · 12-month change
What’s moving
Trending↗
  • 01C+++617%
  • 02ChatGPT+402%
  • 03Rust+306%
  • 04Terraform+282%
Cooling↘
  • 01Django−78%
  • 02React Native−73%
  • 03Make−50%
  • 04Machine Learning−36%

67% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through Jun 2026)

Role mix · Seattle vs USShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
SeattleUS baseline
Data Ml
over-indexed
17%
12%
+5 pts1.4×
Design
match
2%
3%
−1 pts0.6×
Engineering
match
67%
69%
−2 pts1.0×
Executive
match
1%
2%
−1 pts0.6×
Finance Accounting
match
0%
0%
−0 pts0.0×
Healthcare
match
0%
0%
−0 pts0.0×
Legal Compliance
match
0%
0%
−0 pts0.0×
Marketing
match
1%
3%
−2 pts0.3×
Operations
match
0%
1%
−1 pts0.2×
Other
over-indexed
8%
3%
+5 pts2.4×
Product
match
5%
4%
+0 pts1.0×
Sales
match
1%
3%
−2 pts0.2×
§ 04Similar Cities

Where else looks like Seattle?

Cosine similarity across role mix, work-model split, and skill profile.

CityMatchPosts/moRemote%Sr. median
01
New YorkNew York · US
0.97
13736%$190k02
LondonGB
0.96
5653%$110k03
San FranciscoCalifornia · US
0.94
16546%$190k04
AustinTexas · US
0.89
1747%$160k05
Washington DCDC · US
0.65
2768%$180k

Match score = cosine similarity over (category share, work-model split, top-50 skill share)