Monthly ReportIssue № 27

December ’13

A cooler month with 605 postings, a median of $100k across 44 explicit salary samples, JavaScript leads the skills board.

Total Postings-20.6%vs November
605
jobs
4-Mo TrendSEP '13 → DEC '13
477 lowDecember 2013848 peak
Hiring Jobs
605100.0%
Comp Data Points
44samples
Remote Share
57.2%
Top Skill
JavaScript
§ 00Hiring Volume · 4-Mo Window
§ 01Compensation

Medians held firm despite the cooling posting count.

Based on 44 explicit salary data points parsed from full-time job threads.
Median Salary
USD100K
-60.0%$-150,000 vs November 2013
25th
$63k
75th
$331k
90th
$401k
Salary Distribution
Where the money lands
251550MEDIAN6090120150180210240270300330360+
USD · THOUSANDSn=44
Median · 4-Mo Trend
4-month arc
vs Baseline
-33.2%
$-49,750
§ 02Technical Skills

JavaScript stays the most mentioned technical skill.

Keywords counted across 605 hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.
#01
Top Skill
JavaScript
36mentions↓ 39%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
Leaderboard
01
JavaScript-39%
36
02
Python-17%
29
03
Ruby On Rails-7%
27
04
Ruby-6%
17
05
PostgreSQL-12%
14
06
AngularJS+0%
13
07
AWS-8%
11
08
MongoDB-21%
11
09
C-9%
10
10
Java-55%
10
Movers · Month-over-month
What’s moving
Trending
  • 01Heroku+40%
  • 02Hadoop+29%
  • 03Clojure+25%
  • 04Scala+17%
Cooling
  • 01C#-62%
  • 02Java-55%
  • 03PHP-54%
  • 04Make-53%
  • 05Angular-53%
Common Stacks
Top pairs co-mentioned
  • JavaScript + Python12%
  • Django + Python8%
  • JavaScript + Node.Js6%
  • Java + JavaScript5%
  • Java + Python5%
  • Django + JavaScript5%
Skills · 12-Mo Trend
How the leaders moved

67% of jobs include at least one technical skill · Percentage of jobs mentioning the skill (12 months through December 2013)

§ 03Location & Remote

Remote plateaus at just under half of all postings.

A reversal from the 2022 peak, but still the dominant arrangement across hiring threads.
Remote Share
57.2%
-3.5 ptsvs November 2013
Remote
57.2%
On-site / Hybrid
42.8%
Geographic Spread
12 countries represented
ACTIVENONE
United States: 479 jobs479United Kingdom: 72 jobs72Europe (EU): 54 jobs54Canada: 22 jobs22Asia: 19 jobs19Latin America: 7 jobs7Australia / NZ: 4 jobs4
01 United States
473posts
02 United Kingdom
72posts
03 Canada
22posts
04 Ireland
16posts

657 jobs with identifiable location (jobs may appear in multiple regions)

Arrangement Trend
Remote vs hybrid vs on-site
RemoteHybridOn-site· 4 months
Visa Sponsorship
0 posts offer sponsorship
0%
Offer sponsorship
00.0%
Explicitly decline
00.0%
Don't mention
605100.0%

Based on 605 job posts in December 2013. Most posts do not explicitly state their visa policy.

Work arrangement and location data for December 2013 · 152 classified jobs

§ 04Year-Over-Year

December across the last five years.

Dec 2013
CURRENT
605