Monthly ReportIssue № 14
November ’12
A cooler month with 437 postings, a median of $401k across 12 explicit salary samples, JavaScript leads the skills board.
Total Postings-10.1%vs October
437
jobs
20-Mo TrendAPR '11 → NOV '12
0 lowNovember 2012493 peak
Hiring Jobs
437100.0%
Comp Data Points
12samples
Remote Share
53.3%
Top Skill
JavaScript
§ 00Hiring Volume · 20-Mo Window
§ 01Compensation
Medians held firm despite the cooling posting count.
Based on 12 explicit salary data points parsed from full-time job threads.
Median Salary
USD401K
+167.3%+$251,000 vs October 2012
25th
$50k
75th
$401k
90th
$401k
Salary Distribution
Where the money lands
USD · THOUSANDSn=12
Median · 20-Mo Trend
20-month arc
vs Baseline
+46.9%
+$128,053
§ 02Technical Skills
JavaScript stays the most mentioned technical skill.
Keywords counted across 437 hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.
#01
Top Skill
JavaScript33mentions↓ 21%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
Leaderboard
01
JavaScript-21%
3302
Python-30%
2303
Ruby On Rails+47%
2204
HTML/CSS-22%
2105
Ruby+40%
2106
MySQL-7%
1307
PHP-20%
1208
JQuery-20%
1209
Java-59%
1110
Node.Js+13%
9Movers · Month-over-month
What’s moving
Trending
- 01Ruby On Rails+47%
- 02Ruby+40%
- 03Objective-C+33%
- 04Redis+33%
- 05PostgreSQL+20%
Cooling
- 01Java-59%
- 02Hadoop-56%
- 03Machine Learning-56%
- 04C++-40%
- 05SQL-37%
Common Stacks
Top pairs co-mentioned
- Android + IOS16%
- HTML/CSS + JavaScript13%
- JavaScript + Python9%
- Android + JavaScript8%
- UX/UI + IOS8%
- JavaScript + Ruby On Rails8%
Skills · 12-Mo Trend
How the leaders moved
JavaScriptPythonRuby On RailsHTML/CSSRuby3mo avg · JavaScript
85% of jobs include at least one technical skill · Percentage of jobs mentioning the skill (12 months through November 2012)
§ 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
53.3%
+1.8 ptsvs October 2012
Remote
53.3%
On-site / Hybrid
46.7%
Geographic Spread
11 countries represented
ACTIVENONE
01 United States
351posts
02 United Kingdom
35posts
03 Canada
12posts
04 Netherlands
12posts
431 jobs with identifiable location (jobs may appear in multiple regions)
Arrangement Trend
Remote vs hybrid vs on-site
RemoteHybridOn-site· 19 months
Visa Sponsorship
0 posts offer sponsorship
0%
Offer sponsorship
00.0%
Explicitly decline
30.7%
Don't mention
43499.3%
Based on 437 job posts in November 2012. Most posts do not explicitly state their visa policy.
Work arrangement and location data for November 2012 · 135 classified jobs
§ 04Year-Over-Year
November across the last five years.
Nov 2011
418
Nov 2012
CURRENT
437