Monthly ReportIssue № 46
July ’15
A surge with 1,999 postings, a median of $300k across 94 explicit salary samples, JavaScript leads the skills board.
Total Postings+40.1%vs June
1,999
jobs
5-Mo TrendMAR '15 → JUL '15
1,024 lowJuly 20151,999 peak
Hiring Jobs
1,999100.0%
Comp Data Points
94samples
Remote Share
25.7%
Top Skill
JavaScript
§ 00Hiring Volume · 5-Mo Window
§ 01Compensation
Medians held firm despite the cooling posting count.
Based on 94 explicit salary data points parsed from full-time job threads.
Median Salary
USD300K
+100.0%+$150,000 vs June 2015
25th
$78k
75th
$401k
90th
$401k
Salary Distribution
Where the money lands
USD · THOUSANDSn=94
Median · 5-Mo Trend
5-month arc
vs Baseline
+78.0%
+$131,500
§ 02Technical Skills
JavaScript stays the most mentioned technical skill.
Keywords counted across 1,999 hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.
#01
Top Skill
JavaScript117mentions↑ 56%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
Leaderboard
01
JavaScript+56%
11702
Python+53%
8103
Ruby On Rails+48%
6204
Node.Js+16%
5005
AWS+32%
4906
Ruby+50%
4207
Java+33%
4008
React+38%
3609
PostgreSQL-5%
3510
PHP+60%
32Movers · Month-over-month
What’s moving
Trending
- 01SQL+267%
- 02Jenkins+150%
- 03C#+143%
- 04Perl+133%
- 05Swift+133%
Cooling
- 01NGINX-22%
- 02Erlang-20%
- 03Scala-18%
- 04PostgreSQL-5%
Common Stacks
Top pairs co-mentioned
- JavaScript + Python11%
- JavaScript + Ruby On Rails6%
- JavaScript + Node.Js6%
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) + JavaScript6%
- Angular + JavaScript6%
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) + Python5%
Skills · 12-Mo Trend
How the leaders moved
JavaScriptPythonRuby On RailsNode.JsAmazon Web Services (AWS)3mo avg · JavaScript
63% of jobs include at least one technical skill · Percentage of jobs mentioning the skill (12 months through July 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
25.7%
-11.1 ptsvs June 2015
Remote
25.7%
On-site / Hybrid
74.3%
Geographic Spread
12 countries represented
ACTIVENONE
01 United States
1,563posts
02 United Kingdom
169posts
03 Germany
86posts
04 Canada
77posts
2,168 jobs with identifiable location (jobs may appear in multiple regions)
Arrangement Trend
Remote vs hybrid vs on-site
RemoteHybridOn-site· 5 months
Visa Sponsorship
24 posts offer sponsorship
1.2%
Offer sponsorship
241.2%
Explicitly decline
211.1%
Don't mention
195497.7%
Based on 1999 job posts in July 2015. Most posts do not explicitly state their visa policy.
Work arrangement and location data for July 2015 · 1214 classified jobs
§ 04Year-Over-Year
July across the last five years.
Jul 2015
CURRENT
1,999