Monthly ReportIssue № 25
October ’13
A surge with 848 postings, a median of $150k across 59 explicit salary samples, JavaScript leads the skills board.
Total Postings+77.8%vs September
848
jobs
2-Mo TrendSEP '13 → OCT '13
477 lowOctober 2013848 peak
Hiring Jobs
848100.0%
Comp Data Points
59samples
Remote Share
47.6%
Top Skill
JavaScript
§ 00Hiring Volume · 2-Mo Window
§ 01Compensation
Medians held firm despite the cooling posting count.
Based on 59 explicit salary data points parsed from full-time job threads.
Median Salary
USD150K
+51.5%+$51,000 vs September 2013
25th
$32k
75th
$331k
90th
$401k
Salary Distribution
Where the money lands
USD · THOUSANDSn=59
Median · 2-Mo Trend
2-month arc
vs Baseline
+20.5%
+$25,500
§ 02Technical Skills
JavaScript stays the most mentioned technical skill.
Keywords counted across 848 hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.
#01
Top Skill
JavaScript66mentions↑ 78%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
Leaderboard
01
JavaScript+78%
6602
Ruby On Rails+71%
4803
Python+96%
4504
Ruby+363%
3705
Make+63%
2606
JQuery+243%
2407
MySQL+69%
2208
Java+24%
2109
PHP+163%
2110
Go+100%
16Movers · Month-over-month
What’s moving
Trending
- 01Ruby+363%
- 02JQuery+243%
- 03PHP+163%
- 04NGINX+150%
- 05C+140%
Cooling
- 01SQL-56%
- 02Django-38%
- 03Angular-27%
- 04C++-25%
Common Stacks
Top pairs co-mentioned
- JavaScript + Python11%
- Node.Js + Python8%
- JavaScript + Ruby7%
- PHP + Python7%
- JavaScript + Ruby On Rails7%
- Ruby + Ruby On Rails7%
Skills · 12-Mo Trend
How the leaders moved
JavaScriptRuby On RailsPythonRubyMake3mo avg · JavaScript
74% of jobs include at least one technical skill · Percentage of jobs mentioning the skill (12 months through October 2013)
§ 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
47.6%
-0.7 ptsvs September 2013
Remote
47.6%
On-site / Hybrid
52.3%
Geographic Spread
12 countries represented
ACTIVENONE
01 United States
658posts
02 United Kingdom
70posts
03 Canada
41posts
04 Germany
22posts
880 jobs with identifiable location (jobs may appear in multiple regions)
Arrangement Trend
Remote vs hybrid vs on-site
RemoteHybridOn-site· 2 months
Visa Sponsorship
12 posts offer sponsorship
1.4%
Offer sponsorship
121.4%
Explicitly decline
20.2%
Don't mention
83498.3%
Based on 848 job posts in October 2013. Most posts do not explicitly state their visa policy.
Work arrangement and location data for October 2013 · 212 classified jobs
§ 04Year-Over-Year
October across the last five years.
Oct 2013
CURRENT
848