Monthly ReportIssue № 28
January ’14
A cooler month with 445 postings, a median of $200k across 36 explicit salary samples, JavaScript leads the skills board.
Total Postings-26.4%vs December
445
jobs
5-Mo TrendSEP '13 → JAN '14
445 lowJanuary 2014848 peak
Hiring Jobs
445100.0%
Comp Data Points
36samples
Remote Share
64.7%
Top Skill
JavaScript
§ 00Hiring Volume · 5-Mo Window
§ 01Compensation
Medians held firm despite the cooling posting count.
Based on 36 explicit salary data points parsed from full-time job threads.
Median Salary
USD200K
+100.0%+$100,000 vs December 2013
25th
$100k
75th
$401k
90th
$401k
Salary Distribution
Where the money lands
USD · THOUSANDSn=36
Median · 5-Mo Trend
5-month arc
vs Baseline
+25.2%
+$40,200
§ 02Technical Skills
JavaScript stays the most mentioned technical skill.
Keywords counted across 445 hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.
#01
Top Skill
JavaScript43mentions↑ 19%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
Leaderboard
01
JavaScript+19%
4302
Python-7%
2703
Ruby On Rails-30%
1904
Ruby-12%
1505
PHP+117%
1306
JQuery+86%
1307
Angular+22%
1108
Java+0%
1009
AWS-9%
1010
Make+25%
10Movers · Month-over-month
What’s moving
Trending
- 01PHP+117%
- 02HTML/CSS+100%
- 03JQuery+86%
- 04Go+40%
- 05C#+33%
Cooling
- 01Hadoop-56%
- 02C-50%
- 03Heroku-43%
- 04NGINX-40%
- 05AngularJS-31%
Common Stacks
Top pairs co-mentioned
- JavaScript + Python9%
- JavaScript + Ruby On Rails7%
- JavaScript + Ruby6%
- JavaScript + Make6%
- JavaScript + MySQL5%
- Angular + JavaScript5%
Skills · 12-Mo Trend
How the leaders moved
JavaScriptPythonRuby On RailsRubyPHP3mo avg · JavaScript
83% of jobs include at least one technical skill · Percentage of jobs mentioning the skill (12 months through January 2014)
§ 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
64.7%
+7.5 ptsvs December 2013
Remote
64.7%
On-site / Hybrid
35.3%
Geographic Spread
12 countries represented
ACTIVENONE
01 United States
336posts
02 United Kingdom
32posts
03 Canada
18posts
04 India
8posts
455 jobs with identifiable location (jobs may appear in multiple regions)
Arrangement Trend
Remote vs hybrid vs on-site
RemoteHybridOn-site· 5 months
Visa Sponsorship
6 posts offer sponsorship
1.3%
Offer sponsorship
61.3%
Explicitly decline
00.0%
Don't mention
43998.7%
Based on 445 job posts in January 2014. Most posts do not explicitly state their visa policy.
Work arrangement and location data for January 2014 · 136 classified jobs
§ 04Year-Over-Year
January across the last five years.
Jan 2014
CURRENT
445