Monthly ReportIssue № 36
September ’14
A cooler month with 638 postings, a median of $250k across 36 explicit salary samples, JavaScript leads the skills board.
Total Postings-43.8%vs August
638
jobs
6-Mo TrendAPR '14 → SEP '14
638 lowSeptember 20141,136 peak
Hiring Jobs
638100.0%
Comp Data Points
36samples
Remote Share
62.3%
Top Skill
JavaScript
§ 00Hiring Volume · 6-Mo Window
§ 01Compensation
Medians held firm despite the cooling posting count.
Based on 36 explicit salary data points parsed from full-time job threads.
Median Salary
USD250K
+25.0%+$50,000 vs August 2014
25th
$90k
75th
$401k
90th
$765k
Salary Distribution
Where the money lands
USD · THOUSANDSn=36
Median · 6-Mo Trend
6-month arc
vs Baseline
+14.3%
+$31,333
§ 02Technical Skills
JavaScript stays the most mentioned technical skill.
Keywords counted across 638 hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.
#01
Top Skill
JavaScript55mentions↓ 40%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
Leaderboard
01
JavaScript-40%
5502
Python-38%
3703
Ruby On Rails-32%
2504
Java-38%
2405
Ruby-36%
2306
Node.Js-38%
1807
AWS-41%
1608
Make-30%
1609
PostgreSQL-16%
1610
JQuery-53%
15Movers · Month-over-month
What’s moving
Trending
- 01Hack (Meta)+33%
- 02D3.Js+33%
- 03EC2+25%
- 04RabbitMQ+25%
Cooling
- 01C#-73%
- 02Elasticsearch-67%
- 03HTML/CSS-64%
- 04Docker-62%
- 05C++-60%
Common Stacks
Top pairs co-mentioned
- JavaScript + Python18%
- JavaScript + Ruby On Rails11%
- JavaScript + Node.Js10%
- Django + Python8%
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) + JavaScript7%
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) + Python7%
Skills · 12-Mo Trend
How the leaders moved
JavaScriptPythonRuby On RailsJavaRuby3mo avg · JavaScript
86% of jobs include at least one technical skill · Percentage of jobs mentioning the skill (12 months through September 2014)
§ 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
62.3%
+2.2 ptsvs August 2014
Remote
62.3%
On-site / Hybrid
37.7%
Geographic Spread
12 countries represented
ACTIVENONE
01 United States
480posts
02 United Kingdom
83posts
03 Germany
32posts
04 Canada
26posts
667 jobs with identifiable location (jobs may appear in multiple regions)
Arrangement Trend
Remote vs hybrid vs on-site
RemoteHybridOn-site· 6 months
Visa Sponsorship
5 posts offer sponsorship
0.8%
Offer sponsorship
50.8%
Explicitly decline
40.6%
Don't mention
62998.6%
Based on 638 job posts in September 2014. Most posts do not explicitly state their visa policy.
Work arrangement and location data for September 2014 · 247 classified jobs
§ 04Year-Over-Year
September across the last five years.
Sep 2014
CURRENT
638