🇧🇬 Bulgaria Hiring Trends

How startup hiring in Bulgaria is changing and which roles are in demand, measured as shares of startup job postings so it reflects hiring rather than how many startups we track.

Share of startup postings
0.26%
Last 12 months
Change in share
-26.2%
From 0.36% the 12 months before
Most in-demand role
Software Engineer
5.9% of postings here

Bulgaria's share of startup hiring

Bulgaria accounted for 0.26% of startup job postings in the last 12 months, down from 0.36% in the 12 months before.

Bulgaria share of startup job postings

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Per quarter since Q1 2017.
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Quarter Share of postings
Q1 2017 0.11%
Q2 2017 0.14%
Q3 2017 0.13%
Q4 2017 0.06%
Q1 2018 0.12%
Q2 2018 0.06%
Q3 2018 0.06%
Q4 2018 0.12%
Q1 2019 0.12%
Q2 2019 0.11%
Q3 2019 0.14%
Q4 2019 0.05%
Q1 2020 0.10%
Q2 2020 0.13%
Q3 2020 0.11%
Q4 2020 0.14%
Q1 2021 0.12%
Q2 2021 0.14%
Q3 2021 0.11%
Q4 2021 0.11%
Q1 2022 0.11%
Q2 2022 0.17%
Q3 2022 0.18%
Q4 2022 0.20%
Q1 2023 0.19%
Q2 2023 0.17%
Q3 2023 0.17%
Q4 2023 0.22%
Q1 2024 0.26%
Q2 2024 0.32%
Q3 2024 0.39%
Q4 2024 0.42%
Q1 2025 0.35%
Q2 2025 0.34%
Q3 2025 0.34%
Q4 2025 0.31%
Q1 2026 0.26%
Q2 2026 0.25%
Q3 2026 0.25%

Roles in demand in Bulgaria

Software Engineer is the most in-demand startup role in Bulgaria, with 5.9% of postings in the last 12 months.

Largest roles

Role Share, prior 12 months Share, last 12 months Change
Software Engineer 3.8% 5.9% +54.9%
Customer Service 8.8% 3.5% -60.0%
Senior Software Engineer 0.40% 1.5% +269.9%
Quality Assurance (QA) 1.4% 0.83% -42.6%
Operations Engineer 0.00% 0.69%
Accountant 0.00% 0.46%
Reliability Engineer 0.00% 0.46%
Head of Human Resources 0.00% 0.41%
Site Reliability Engineer 0.00% 0.32%
Support Engineer 0.00% 0.28%

Roles gaining share

Role Share, prior 12 months Share, last 12 months Change
Senior Software Engineer 0.40% 1.5% +269.9%
Software Engineer 3.8% 5.9% +54.9%

Methodology

  • Trends come from job postings on startup.jobs, sourced from startups' career pages and jobs posted directly by employers. Employers our vetting rejected or couldn't confirm as startups are left out.
  • We keep adding startups, so posting counts grow even when hiring doesn't. Every trend is therefore a share of all startup postings in the same period, which stays comparable as coverage grows.
  • Broad catch-all titles such as Manager or Specialist are left out of role rankings.
  • Quarterly shares start in 2017 and cover complete quarters. Changes compare the last 12 full months with the 12 before.

You are welcome to cite these figures with a link: Source: Startup Jobs, startup.jobs/locations/bulgaria/trends

For salaries, remote work, and AI hiring, see the startup hiring statistics.

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