Monthly ReportIssue № 47

August ’15

A cooler month with 1,711 postings, a median of $130k across 63 explicit salary samples, JavaScript leads the skills board.

Total Postings-14.4%vs July
1,711
jobs
6-Mo TrendMAR '15 → AUG '15
1,024 lowAugust 20151,999 peak
Hiring Jobs
1,711100.0%
Comp Data Points
63samples
Remote Share
25.8%
Top Skill
JavaScript
§ 00Hiring Volume · 6-Mo Window
§ 01Compensation

Medians held firm despite the cooling posting count.

Based on 63 explicit salary data points parsed from full-time job threads.
Median Salary
USD130K
-56.7%$-170,000 vs July 2015
25th
$50k
75th
$401k
90th
$401k
Salary Distribution
Where the money lands
251550MEDIAN6090120150180210240270300330360+
USD · THOUSANDSn=63
Median · 6-Mo Trend
6-month arc
vs Baseline
-19.8%
$-32,083
§ 02Technical Skills

JavaScript stays the most mentioned technical skill.

Keywords counted across 1,711 hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.
#01
Top Skill
JavaScript
109mentions↓ 7%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
Leaderboard
01
JavaScript-7%
109
02
Python+0%
81
03
Ruby On Rails-13%
54
04
Node.Js+6%
53
05
AWS+8%
53
06
Ruby+14%
48
07
Java+15%
46
08
PostgreSQL+3%
36
09
React-3%
35
10
Redis+31%
34
Movers · Month-over-month
What’s moving
Trending
  • 01S3+100%
  • 02WordPress+75%
  • 03RabbitMQ+60%
  • 04Scala+43%
  • 05Clojure+38%
Cooling
  • 01HTML/CSS-57%
  • 02Perl-57%
  • 03Express-50%
  • 04Laravel-50%
  • 05D3.Js-33%
Common Stacks
Top pairs co-mentioned
  • JavaScript + Python11%
  • JavaScript + Node.Js7%
  • Django + Python6%
  • Java + JavaScript5%
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) + Python5%
  • Python + React5%
Skills · 12-Mo Trend
How the leaders moved

72% of jobs include at least one technical skill · Percentage of jobs mentioning the skill (12 months through August 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
25.8%
+0.1 ptsvs July 2015
Remote
25.8%
On-site / Hybrid
74.2%
Geographic Spread
12 countries represented
ACTIVENONE
United States: 1309 jobs1309Europe (EU): 178 jobs178United Kingdom: 120 jobs120Canada: 90 jobs90Asia: 74 jobs74Latin America: 40 jobs40Australia / NZ: 14 jobs14Africa: 4 jobs4
01 United States
1,287posts
02 United Kingdom
120posts
03 Canada
90posts
04 Germany
79posts

1,829 jobs with identifiable location (jobs may appear in multiple regions)

Arrangement Trend
Remote vs hybrid vs on-site
RemoteHybridOn-site· 6 months
Visa Sponsorship
18 posts offer sponsorship
1.1%
Offer sponsorship
181.1%
Explicitly decline
120.7%
Don't mention
168198.2%

Based on 1711 job posts in August 2015. Most posts do not explicitly state their visa policy.

Work arrangement and location data for August 2015 · 1181 classified jobs

§ 04Year-Over-Year

August across the last five years.

Aug 2015
CURRENT
1,711