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
24-Mo TrendFEB '12 → JAN '14
97 lowJanuary 2014848 peak
Hiring Jobs
445100.0%
Comp Data Points
36samples
Remote Share
64.7%
Top Skill
JavaScript
§ 00Hiring Volume · 24-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
251550MEDIAN6090120150180210240270300330360+
USD · THOUSANDSn=36
Median · 24-Mo Trend
24-month arc
vs Baseline
-12.8%
$-29,438
§ 02Technical Skills

JavaScript stays the most mentioned technical skill.

Keywords counted across 445 hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.
#01
Top Skill
JavaScript
43mentions↑ 19%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
Leaderboard
01
JavaScript+19%
43
02
HTML/CSS+48%
31
03
Python-7%
27
04
Ruby On Rails-30%
19
05
Ruby-12%
15
06
PHP+117%
13
07
JQuery+86%
13
08
Angular+22%
11
09
Java+0%
10
10
AWS-9%
10
Movers · Month-over-month
What’s moving
Trending
  • 01PHP+117%
  • 02JQuery+86%
  • 03HTML/CSS+48%
  • 04Go+40%
  • 05C#+33%
Cooling
  • 01Hadoop-56%
  • 02C-50%
  • 03Heroku-43%
  • 04NGINX-40%
  • 05AngularJS-31%
Common Stacks
Top pairs co-mentioned
  • HTML/CSS + JavaScript17%
  • Android + IOS16%
  • JavaScript + Python9%
  • JavaScript + IOS9%
  • HTML/CSS + UX/UI8%
  • JavaScript + UX/UI7%
Skills · 12-Mo Trend
How the leaders moved

100% 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
United States: 343 jobs343Europe (EU): 42 jobs42United Kingdom: 32 jobs32Canada: 18 jobs18Asia: 9 jobs9Australia / NZ: 4 jobs4Latin America: 4 jobs4Africa: 3 jobs3
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· 24 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 2012
299
Jan 2013
391
Jan 2014
CURRENT
445