Monthly ReportIssue № 53
February ’16
A surge with 1,547 postings, a median of $401k across 126 explicit salary samples, JavaScript leads the skills board.
Total Postings+77.0%vs January
1,547
jobs
5-Mo TrendOCT '15 → FEB '16
874 lowFebruary 20161,642 peak
Hiring Jobs
1,547100.0%
Comp Data Points
126samples
Remote Share
25.4%
Top Skill
JavaScript
§ 00Hiring Volume · 5-Mo Window
§ 01Compensation
Medians held firm despite the cooling posting count.
Based on 126 explicit salary data points parsed from full-time job threads.
Median Salary
USD401K
+0.0%+$0 vs January 2016
25th
$150k
75th
$401k
90th
$500k
Salary Distribution
Where the money lands
USD · THOUSANDSn=126
Median · 5-Mo Trend
5-month arc
vs Baseline
+21.3%
+$70,400
§ 02Technical Skills
JavaScript stays the most mentioned technical skill.
Keywords counted across 1,547 hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.
#01
Top Skill
JavaScript73mentions↑ 26%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
Leaderboard
01
JavaScript+26%
7302
Python+23%
5403
AWS+76%
4404
React+79%
4305
Ruby On Rails+67%
4006
Java+100%
3407
Node.Js+106%
3308
PostgreSQL+45%
3209
Go+23%
2710
Redis+130%
23Movers · Month-over-month
What’s moving
Trending
- 01Scala+300%
- 02C+143%
- 03Elasticsearch+140%
- 04Cassandra+133%
- 05Redis+130%
Cooling
- 01D3.Js-40%
- 02HTML/CSS-25%
- 03Swift-25%
- 04TypeScript-25%
Common Stacks
Top pairs co-mentioned
- JavaScript + Python9%
- C++ + Python7%
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) + Python6%
- Go + Python6%
- Python + React6%
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) + JavaScript5%
Skills · 12-Mo Trend
How the leaders moved
JavaScriptPythonAmazon Web Services (AWS)ReactRuby On Rails3mo avg · JavaScript
59% of jobs include at least one technical skill · Percentage of jobs mentioning the skill (12 months through February 2016)
§ 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
25.4%
+0.7 ptsvs January 2016
Remote
25.4%
On-site / Hybrid
74.6%
Geographic Spread
12 countries represented
ACTIVENONE
01 United States
1,254posts
02 United Kingdom
110posts
03 Canada
80posts
04 Germany
28posts
1,658 jobs with identifiable location (jobs may appear in multiple regions)
Arrangement Trend
Remote vs hybrid vs on-site
RemoteHybridOn-site· 5 months
Visa Sponsorship
13 posts offer sponsorship
0.8%
Offer sponsorship
130.8%
Explicitly decline
100.6%
Don't mention
152498.5%
Based on 1547 job posts in February 2016. Most posts do not explicitly state their visa policy.
Work arrangement and location data for February 2016 · 1229 classified jobs
§ 04Year-Over-Year
February across the last five years.
Feb 2016
CURRENT
1,547