Monthly ReportIssue № 58

July ’16

A cooler month with 1,530 postings, a median of $132k across 140 explicit salary samples, JavaScript leads the skills board.

Total Postings-10.0%vs June
1,530
jobs
24-Mo TrendAUG '14 → JUL '16
596 lowJuly 20161,999 peak
Hiring Jobs
1,530100.0%
Comp Data Points
140samples
Remote Share
23.3%
Top Skill
JavaScript
§ 00Hiring Volume · 24-Mo Window
§ 01Compensation

Medians held firm despite the cooling posting count.

Based on 140 explicit salary data points parsed from full-time job threads.
Median Salary
USD132K
-2.0%$-2,703 vs June 2016
25th
$100k
75th
$401k
90th
$401k
Salary Distribution
Where the money lands
251550MEDIAN6090120150180210240270300330360+
USD · THOUSANDSn=140
Median · 24-Mo Trend
24-month arc
vs Baseline
-36.7%
$-76,778
§ 02Technical Skills

JavaScript stays the most mentioned technical skill.

Keywords counted across 1,530 hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.
#01
Top Skill
JavaScript
87mentions↓ 5%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
Leaderboard
01
JavaScript-5%
87
02
Python-13%
62
03
React-9%
58
04
Node.Js+7%
48
05
AWS+2%
48
06
Java-9%
41
07
Ruby On Rails-24%
39
08
PostgreSQL-27%
35
09
Docker+19%
32
10
HTML/CSS-27%
30
Movers · Month-over-month
What’s moving
Trending
  • 01Express+67%
  • 02Django+53%
  • 03RabbitMQ+33%
  • 04Microsoft SQL Server+33%
  • 05AngularJS+30%
Cooling
  • 01PHP-62%
  • 02Haskell-56%
  • 03Swift-55%
  • 04C-53%
  • 05TypeScript-50%
Common Stacks
Top pairs co-mentioned
  • Android + IOS14%
  • JavaScript + Python10%
  • Node.Js + React7%
  • Python + React6%
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) + Python6%
  • Go + Python6%
Skills · 12-Mo Trend
How the leaders moved

77% of jobs include at least one technical skill · Percentage of jobs mentioning the skill (12 months through July 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
23.3%
+0.5 ptsvs June 2016
Remote
23.3%
On-site / Hybrid
76.6%
Geographic Spread
12 countries represented
ACTIVENONE
United States: 1189 jobs1189Europe (EU): 156 jobs156United Kingdom: 134 jobs134Asia: 64 jobs64Canada: 59 jobs59Australia / NZ: 20 jobs20Latin America: 2 jobs2
01 United States
1,180posts
02 United Kingdom
134posts
03 Canada
59posts
04 Germany
37posts

1,624 jobs with identifiable location (jobs may appear in multiple regions)

Arrangement Trend
Remote vs hybrid vs on-site
RemoteHybridOn-site· 24 months
Visa Sponsorship
15 posts offer sponsorship
1%
Offer sponsorship
151.0%
Explicitly decline
80.5%
Don't mention
150798.5%

Based on 1530 job posts in July 2016. Most posts do not explicitly state their visa policy.

Work arrangement and location data for July 2016 · 1298 classified jobs

§ 04Year-Over-Year

July across the last five years.

Jul 2012
326
Jul 2013
531
Jul 2014
1,003
Jul 2015
1,999
Jul 2016
CURRENT
1,530