The State of Developer Ecosystem Survey in 2018

Demographics & Methodology

What is your main employment status?
66%15%7%5%4%2%1%
Fully employed bya company / organizationStudentFreelancerSelf-employedPartially employed bya company / organizationCurrently unemployedOther
Which of the following best describes your job roles regardless of your position level?

Question with checkboxes. Sum of shares may be more than 100%.

This question was only answered by respondents who are fully / partially employed by a company / organization, freelancers or are self-employed.

Developer / Programmer/ Software Engineer81%Team Lead18%DevOps Engineer / Infrastructure Developer / etc.16%Architect15%Technical support7%UX / UI Designer5%Data analyst / Data engineer5%CIO / CEO / CTO5%Systems analyst5%Instructor / Teacher / Tutor / etc.4%Tester / QA Engineer4%DBA3%Product Manager3%Business analyst2%Other2%

16% of Developers are also DevOps Engineers, and 15% work as Architects.

How many people work for your company / organization?

Not sureJust me2-1011-5051-500501-1,0001,001-5,000More than 5,0002%4%14%19%26%8%10%17%

This question was only answered by respondents who are fully / partially employed by a company / organization or are self-employed.

Is IT your company’s core business?
68%Yes32%No

This question was only answered by respondents who are fully / partially employed by a company / organization or are self-employed.

What kind of development does your company do?
In-house development52%Product development48%Customer services development (web-sites, mobile apps, etc.)37%Custom-tailored software / web-sites / applications26%Internal deployment and maintenance of third-party tools18%Outsourcing12%Open source projects11%Other1%

Question with checkboxes. Sum of shares may be more than 100%.
This question was only answered by respondents who are fully / partially employed by a company / organization or are self-employed.

How long have you been working in the IT industry?
17%18%22%20%23%
Less than 1 year1 - 2 years3 - 5 years6 - 10 years11+ years
What is the size of your project team?
I work on my project(s) independently14%2-7 people50%8-12 people19%13-20 people8%21-40 people5%More than 40 people4%

This question was only answered by respondents who are fully / partially employed by a company / organization, freelancers or are self-employed.

What agile software development framework do you use in your team, if any?

Scrum41%Combined13%Kanban10%XP1%Other1%None34%

This question was hidden for the respondents who work on their projects independently.

40% of the respondents who use agile frameworks in their team, practice pair programming. However only 20% of those, who do not use an agile framework, practice pair programming.

How is your team distributed? (%)

Within onephysical locationWithin one cityWithin one countryAcrossseveral countries35132725

This question was hidden for the respondents who work on their projects independently.

Could you tell us your age range?

17 or younger18-2021-2930-3940-4950 or older4%8%46%30%9%3%

Methodology

More than 15K people participated in the Developer Ecosystem Survey 2018, but only the responses of 6K respondents were included in this report.

We used Twitter Ads, Facebook Ads, Google Adwords, and JetBrains' own communication channels to invite potential survey respondents to take part. To minimize bias, the reports only include responses coming from Twitter Ads, Facebook Ads and Google Adwords.

We collected enough samples from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and the United States to feel our sample is representative of the current Developer Ecosystem. As around 70% of all the developers in the world are based in these countries.

To minimize possible bias against non-English-speaking respondents, we conducted the survey in 6 languages.

We also performed weighting to present differences in developer numbers by country and the number of students in different countries.

Despite these measures, some bias is likely present as our users may have been more willing on average to complete the survey.

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