Monthly ReportIssue № 19
April ’13
A surge with 658 postings, a median of $300k across 33 explicit salary samples, JavaScript leads the skills board.
Total Postings+5.6%vs March
658
jobs
24-Mo TrendMAY '11 → APR '13
0 lowApril 2013658 peak
Hiring Jobs
658100.0%
Comp Data Points
33samples
Remote Share
62.8%
Top Skill
JavaScript
§ 00Hiring Volume · 24-Mo Window
§ 01Compensation
Medians held firm despite the cooling posting count.
Based on 33 explicit salary data points parsed from full-time job threads.
Median Salary
USD300K
+200.0%+$200,000 vs March 2013
25th
$100k
75th
$401k
90th
$580k
Salary Distribution
Where the money lands
USD · THOUSANDSn=33
Median · 24-Mo Trend
24-month arc
vs Baseline
+7.5%
+$20,957
§ 02Technical Skills
JavaScript stays the most mentioned technical skill.
Keywords counted across 658 hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.
#01
Top Skill
JavaScript60mentions↑ 43%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
Leaderboard
01
JavaScript+43%
6002
HTML/CSS+15%
3903
Python+43%
3304
Ruby On Rails+20%
3005
Java+45%
2906
Ruby+44%
2607
PHP+62%
2108
JQuery+25%
2009
MySQL+6%
1710
Django+60%
16Movers · Month-over-month
What’s moving
Trending
- 01MongoDB+250%
- 02Scala+167%
- 03Hadoop+150%
- 04D3.Js+133%
- 05SQL+120%
Cooling
- 01Objective-C-56%
- 02Machine Learning-33%
- 03Hack (Meta)-25%
- 04ASP.NET-20%
- 05NGINX-20%
Common Stacks
Top pairs co-mentioned
- Android + IOS13%
- HTML/CSS + JavaScript12%
- JavaScript + IOS9%
- JavaScript + Python9%
- Django + Python9%
- Java + Python8%
Skills · 12-Mo Trend
How the leaders moved
JavaScriptHTML/CSSPythonRuby On RailsJava3mo avg · JavaScript
100% of jobs include at least one technical skill · Percentage of jobs mentioning the skill (12 months through April 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
62.8%
+9.8 ptsvs March 2013
Remote
62.8%
On-site / Hybrid
37.2%
Geographic Spread
12 countries represented
ACTIVENONE
01 United States
548posts
02 United Kingdom
39posts
03 Germany
14posts
04 Canada
11posts
678 jobs with identifiable location (jobs may appear in multiple regions)
Arrangement Trend
Remote vs hybrid vs on-site
RemoteHybridOn-site· 23 months
Visa Sponsorship
2 posts offer sponsorship
0.3%
Offer sponsorship
20.3%
Explicitly decline
20.3%
Don't mention
65499.4%
Based on 658 job posts in April 2013. Most posts do not explicitly state their visa policy.
Work arrangement and location data for April 2013 · 188 classified jobs
§ 04Year-Over-Year
April across the last five years.
Apr 2011
405
Apr 2012
427
Apr 2013
CURRENT
658