Monthly ReportIssue № 16
January ’13
A cooler month with 391 postings, a median of $401k across 10 explicit salary samples, JavaScript leads the skills board.
Total Postings-22.4%vs December
391
jobs
22-Mo TrendAPR '11 → JAN '13
0 lowJanuary 2013504 peak
Hiring Jobs
391100.0%
Comp Data Points
10samples
Remote Share
60.8%
Top Skill
JavaScript
§ 00Hiring Volume · 22-Mo Window
§ 01Compensation
Medians held firm despite the cooling posting count.
Based on 10 explicit salary data points parsed from full-time job threads.
Median Salary
USD401K
+401.3%+$321,000 vs December 2012
25th
$175k
75th
$476k
90th
$700k
Salary Distribution
Where the money lands
USD · THOUSANDSn=10
Median · 22-Mo Trend
22-month arc
vs Baseline
+48.6%
+$131,143
§ 02Technical Skills
JavaScript stays the most mentioned technical skill.
Keywords counted across 391 hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.
#01
Top Skill
JavaScript27mentions↑ 8%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
Leaderboard
01
JavaScript+8%
2702
HTML/CSS+33%
2003
Python-17%
2004
PHP+80%
1805
Ruby+20%
1806
Java+27%
1407
Ruby On Rails-22%
1408
MongoDB+25%
1009
MySQL+67%
1010
Scala+100%
8Movers · Month-over-month
What’s moving
Trending
- 01NGINX+133%
- 02Scala+100%
- 03Django+100%
- 04PHP+80%
- 05Sass+67%
Cooling
- 01C#-50%
- 02Redis-50%
- 03Hadoop-40%
- 04Make-33%
- 05PostgreSQL-27%
Common Stacks
Top pairs co-mentioned
- HTML/CSS + JavaScript17%
- JavaScript + Python16%
- Android + IOS13%
- JavaScript + Ruby On Rails10%
- HTML/CSS + Python9%
- JavaScript + IOS9%
Skills · 12-Mo Trend
How the leaders moved
JavaScriptHTML/CSSPythonRubyPHP3mo avg · JavaScript
90% of jobs include at least one technical skill · Percentage of jobs mentioning the skill (12 months through January 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
60.8%
+2.7 ptsvs December 2012
Remote
60.8%
On-site / Hybrid
39.2%
Geographic Spread
12 countries represented
ACTIVENONE
01 United States
316posts
02 United Kingdom
29posts
03 Canada
13posts
04 Germany
11posts
392 jobs with identifiable location (jobs may appear in multiple regions)
Arrangement Trend
Remote vs hybrid vs on-site
RemoteHybridOn-site· 21 months
Visa Sponsorship
3 posts offer sponsorship
0.8%
Offer sponsorship
30.8%
Explicitly decline
00.0%
Don't mention
38899.2%
Based on 391 job posts in January 2013. Most posts do not explicitly state their visa policy.
Work arrangement and location data for January 2013 · 102 classified jobs
§ 04Year-Over-Year
January across the last five years.
Jan 2012
299
Jan 2013
CURRENT
391