Monthly ReportIssue № 40

January ’15

A cooler month with 596 postings, a median of $175k across 42 explicit salary samples, JavaScript leads the skills board.

Total Postings-39.7%vs December
596
jobs
24-Mo TrendFEB '13 → JAN '15
97 lowJanuary 20151,136 peak
Hiring Jobs
596100.0%
Comp Data Points
42samples
Remote Share
59.7%
Top Skill
JavaScript
§ 00Hiring Volume · 24-Mo Window
§ 01Compensation

Medians held firm despite the cooling posting count.

Based on 42 explicit salary data points parsed from full-time job threads.
Median Salary
USD175K
-30.0%$-75,000 vs December 2014
25th
$101k
75th
$401k
90th
$1,000k
Salary Distribution
Where the money lands
251550MEDIAN6090120150180210240270300330360+
USD · THOUSANDSn=42
Median · 24-Mo Trend
24-month arc
vs Baseline
-13.9%
$-28,271
§ 02Technical Skills

JavaScript stays the most mentioned technical skill.

Keywords counted across 596 hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.
#01
Top Skill
JavaScript
45mentions↓ 46%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
Leaderboard
01
JavaScript-46%
45
02
Python-48%
30
03
HTML/CSS-57%
24
04
Ruby On Rails-55%
19
05
MySQL-50%
18
06
PHP-32%
17
07
AWS-57%
17
08
Java-46%
15
09
Node.Js-59%
15
10
PostgreSQL-59%
15
Movers · Month-over-month
What’s moving
Trending
  • 01Flask+25%
  • 02EC2+25%
Cooling
  • 01D3.Js-67%
  • 02MongoDB-67%
  • 03C-65%
  • 04Sass-64%
  • 05Hadoop-64%
Common Stacks
Top pairs co-mentioned
  • Android + IOS21%
  • JavaScript + Python16%
  • HTML/CSS + JavaScript14%
  • JavaScript + UX/UI10%
  • JavaScript + IOS10%
  • HTML/CSS + Python9%
Skills · 12-Mo Trend
How the leaders moved

96% of jobs include at least one technical skill · Percentage of jobs mentioning the skill (12 months through January 2015)

§ 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
59.7%
+8.9 ptsvs December 2014
Remote
59.7%
On-site / Hybrid
40.3%
Geographic Spread
12 countries represented
ACTIVENONE
United States: 468 jobs468United Kingdom: 67 jobs67Europe (EU): 63 jobs63Asia: 42 jobs42Canada: 29 jobs29Australia / NZ: 14 jobs14Africa: 1 jobs1Latin America: 1 jobs1
01 United States
461posts
02 United Kingdom
67posts
03 Germany
35posts
04 Canada
29posts

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

Arrangement Trend
Remote vs hybrid vs on-site
RemoteHybridOn-site· 24 months
Visa Sponsorship
1 posts offer sponsorship
0.2%
Offer sponsorship
10.2%
Explicitly decline
91.5%
Don't mention
58698.3%

Based on 596 job posts in January 2015. Most posts do not explicitly state their visa policy.

Work arrangement and location data for January 2015 · 236 classified jobs

§ 04Year-Over-Year

January across the last five years.

Jan 2012
299
Jan 2013
391
Jan 2014
445
Jan 2015
CURRENT
596