Monthly ReportIssue № 51
December ’15
A cooler month with 924 postings, a median of $401k across 77 explicit salary samples, JavaScript leads the skills board.
Total Postings-43.7%vs November
924
jobs
3-Mo TrendOCT '15 → DEC '15
924 lowDecember 20151,642 peak
Hiring Jobs
924100.0%
Comp Data Points
77samples
Remote Share
27.7%
Top Skill
JavaScript
§ 00Hiring Volume · 3-Mo Window
§ 01Compensation
Medians held firm despite the cooling posting count.
Based on 77 explicit salary data points parsed from full-time job threads.
Median Salary
USD401K
+100.5%+$201,000 vs November 2015
25th
$150k
75th
$401k
90th
$500k
Salary Distribution
Where the money lands
USD · THOUSANDSn=77
Median · 3-Mo Trend
3-month arc
vs Baseline
+41.4%
+$117,333
§ 02Technical Skills
JavaScript stays the most mentioned technical skill.
Keywords counted across 924 hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.
#01
Top Skill
JavaScript36mentions↓ 53%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
Leaderboard
01
JavaScript-53%
3602
Python-34%
3103
Java-43%
2104
Go-11%
1705
Node.Js-60%
1706
Make-15%
1707
React-56%
1608
PostgreSQL-37%
1509
AWS-60%
1410
Docker-18%
14Movers · Month-over-month
What’s moving
Trending
- 01Hadoop+150%
- 02D3.Js+20%
- 03Elasticsearch+14%
Cooling
- 01Ruby On Rails-75%
- 02AWS-60%
- 03Node.Js-60%
- 04C++-58%
- 05SQL-58%
Common Stacks
Top pairs co-mentioned
- JavaScript + Python9%
- JavaScript + Node.Js6%
- Go + Python5%
- Python + React5%
- Go + JavaScript5%
- Django + Python5%
Skills · 12-Mo Trend
How the leaders moved
JavaScriptPythonJavaGoMake3mo avg · JavaScript
51% of jobs include at least one technical skill · Percentage of jobs mentioning the skill (12 months through December 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
27.7%
+2.7 ptsvs November 2015
Remote
27.7%
On-site / Hybrid
72.3%
Geographic Spread
12 countries represented
ACTIVENONE
01 United States
726posts
02 United Kingdom
63posts
03 Canada
47posts
04 Germany
46posts
1,007 jobs with identifiable location (jobs may appear in multiple regions)
Arrangement Trend
Remote vs hybrid vs on-site
RemoteHybridOn-site· 3 months
Visa Sponsorship
11 posts offer sponsorship
1.2%
Offer sponsorship
111.2%
Explicitly decline
101.1%
Don't mention
90397.7%
Based on 924 job posts in December 2015. Most posts do not explicitly state their visa policy.
Work arrangement and location data for December 2015 · 736 classified jobs
§ 04Year-Over-Year
December across the last five years.
Dec 2015
CURRENT
924