Monthly ReportIssue № 52

January ’16

A cooler month with 874 postings, a median of $401k across 46 explicit salary samples, JavaScript leads the skills board.

Total Postings-5.4%vs December
874
jobs
4-Mo TrendOCT '15 → JAN '16
874 lowJanuary 20161,642 peak
Hiring Jobs
874100.0%
Comp Data Points
46samples
Remote Share
24.7%
Top Skill
JavaScript
§ 00Hiring Volume · 4-Mo Window
§ 01Compensation

Medians held firm despite the cooling posting count.

Based on 46 explicit salary data points parsed from full-time job threads.
Median Salary
USD401K
+0.0%+$0 vs December 2015
25th
$98k
75th
$401k
90th
$401k
Salary Distribution
Where the money lands
251550MEDIAN6090120150180210240270300330360+
USD · THOUSANDSn=46
Median · 4-Mo Trend
4-month arc
vs Baseline
+28.1%
+$88,000
§ 02Technical Skills

JavaScript stays the most mentioned technical skill.

Keywords counted across 874 hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.
#01
Top Skill
JavaScript
58mentions↑ 61%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
Leaderboard
01
JavaScript+61%
58
02
Python+42%
44
03
AWS+79%
25
04
React+50%
24
05
Ruby On Rails+118%
24
06
Go+29%
22
07
PostgreSQL+47%
22
08
Java-19%
17
09
SQL+240%
17
10
Node.Js-6%
16
Movers · Month-over-month
What’s moving
Trending
  • 01SQL+240%
  • 02JQuery+200%
  • 03Clojure+167%
  • 04Ruby On Rails+118%
  • 05Django+100%
Cooling
  • 01Scala-64%
  • 02Hadoop-60%
  • 03Cassandra-40%
  • 04Elasticsearch-37%
  • 05Redis-29%
Common Stacks
Top pairs co-mentioned
  • JavaScript + Python10%
  • Go + JavaScript6%
  • Go + Python6%
  • Python + React5%
  • Django + Python5%
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) + Python4%
Skills · 12-Mo Trend
How the leaders moved

73% of jobs include at least one technical skill · Percentage of jobs mentioning the skill (12 months through January 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
24.7%
-3.1 ptsvs December 2015
Remote
24.7%
On-site / Hybrid
75.4%
Geographic Spread
12 countries represented
ACTIVENONE
United States: 678 jobs678Europe (EU): 111 jobs111United Kingdom: 63 jobs63Canada: 43 jobs43Asia: 42 jobs42Australia / NZ: 9 jobs9Latin America: 3 jobs3
01 United States
672posts
02 United Kingdom
63posts
03 Canada
43posts
04 Germany
36posts

949 jobs with identifiable location (jobs may appear in multiple regions)

Arrangement Trend
Remote vs hybrid vs on-site
RemoteHybridOn-site· 4 months
Visa Sponsorship
9 posts offer sponsorship
1%
Offer sponsorship
91.0%
Explicitly decline
91.0%
Don't mention
85697.9%

Based on 874 job posts in January 2016. Most posts do not explicitly state their visa policy.

Work arrangement and location data for January 2016 · 726 classified jobs

§ 04Year-Over-Year

January across the last five years.

Jan 2016
CURRENT
874