Monthly ReportIssue № 44
May ’15
A cooler month with 1,540 postings, a median of $165k across 89 explicit salary samples, JavaScript leads the skills board.
Total Postings-10.6%vs April
1,540
jobs
3-Mo TrendMAR '15 → MAY '15
1,024 lowMay 20151,722 peak
Hiring Jobs
1,540100.0%
Comp Data Points
89samples
Remote Share
51.3%
Top Skill
JavaScript
§ 00Hiring Volume · 3-Mo Window
§ 01Compensation
Medians held firm despite the cooling posting count.
Based on 89 explicit salary data points parsed from full-time job threads.
Median Salary
USD165K
+34.7%+$42,500 vs April 2015
25th
$95k
75th
$401k
90th
$528k
Salary Distribution
Where the money lands
USD · THOUSANDSn=89
Median · 3-Mo Trend
3-month arc
vs Baseline
+26.1%
+$34,167
§ 02Technical Skills
JavaScript stays the most mentioned technical skill.
Keywords counted across 1,540 hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.
#01
Top Skill
JavaScript88mentions↓ 4%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
Leaderboard
01
JavaScript-4%
8802
Python+5%
6403
Ruby On Rails-18%
4704
Java-10%
3505
Ruby-3%
3506
AWS-22%
3507
Node.Js-11%
3308
PostgreSQL+7%
3209
MySQL+0%
2810
Redis+8%
26Movers · Month-over-month
What’s moving
Trending
- 01R+80%
- 02NGINX+50%
- 03Django+41%
- 04Firebase+33%
- 05Redis+8%
Cooling
- 01C#-58%
- 02AngularJS-43%
- 03Docker-42%
- 04Haskell-40%
- 05Perl-40%
Common Stacks
Top pairs co-mentioned
- JavaScript + Python11%
- JavaScript + Ruby On Rails6%
- Java + JavaScript6%
- Ruby + Ruby On Rails6%
- Go + Python5%
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) + Python5%
Skills · 12-Mo Trend
How the leaders moved
JavaScriptPythonRuby On RailsRubyAmazon Web Services (AWS)3mo avg · JavaScript
61% of jobs include at least one technical skill · Percentage of jobs mentioning the skill (12 months through May 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
51.3%
-16.2 ptsvs April 2015
Remote
51.3%
On-site / Hybrid
48.7%
Geographic Spread
12 countries represented
ACTIVENONE
01 United States
1,222posts
02 United Kingdom
120posts
03 Canada
78posts
04 Germany
61posts
1,647 jobs with identifiable location (jobs may appear in multiple regions)
Arrangement Trend
Remote vs hybrid vs on-site
RemoteHybridOn-site· 3 months
Visa Sponsorship
9 posts offer sponsorship
0.6%
Offer sponsorship
90.6%
Explicitly decline
191.2%
Don't mention
151298.2%
Based on 1540 job posts in May 2015. Most posts do not explicitly state their visa policy.
Work arrangement and location data for May 2015 · 478 classified jobs
§ 04Year-Over-Year
May across the last five years.
May 2015
CURRENT
1,540