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Trends at a Glance

Over the past few years, the tech sector has seen both significant growth and the democratization of development. More professionals are choosing careers as developers or exploring various roles beyond the conventional developer positions, such as designers, analysts, engineers, and more. By 2024, the number of professional developers worldwide reached approximately 19.6 million people. See the charts below for a breakdown of trends in the total number of professional developers globally between 2019 and 2024.

Number of Software developers (in millions)


14.1

2019

14.9

2020

16.2

2021

17.3

2022

18.2

2023

19.6

2024

Top 15 countries by number of professional developers


0K

106K

160K

241K

363K

546K

822K

1,237K

1,862K

2,802K

4,215K

201920202021202220232024201920202021202220232024ChinaUnited StatesIndiaJapanBrazilGermanyUnited KingdomCanadaSouth KoreaFrancePolandSpainMexicoTürkiyeArgentina

Number of professional developers by age groups (in millions)


0.2

18‑20

2.9

21‑24

5.1

25‑29

4.3

30‑34

2.7

35‑39

3.0

40‑49

1.1

50‑59

0.3

60+

Number of developers by segments

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Number of software developers by top 13 countries


3,885,000

China

2,918,000

United States

2,569,000

India

1,290,000

Japan

632,000

Brazil

619,000

Germany

521,000

United Kingdom

Number of software developers by age group


213,000

18‑20

2,935,000

21‑24

5,147,000

25‑29

4,306,000

30‑34

2,679,000

35‑39

2,965,000

40‑49

1,073,000

50‑59

304,000

60+

Number of software developers by professional experience


576,000

<1 year

2,385,000

1‑2 years

5,104,000

3‑5 years

5,084,000

6‑10 years

2,921,000

11‑16 years

3,503,000

16+ years

Number of software developers by activities involved


19,626,000

Coding / Programming

12,007,000

Code Reviewing

9,015,000

Deployment

7,881,000

System Design

5,910,000

Infrastructure Development / DevOps

5,717,000

Testing

3,115,000

System Administration

Number of software developers by job title


17,546,000

Developer / Programmer / Software Engineer

3,265,000

Architect

2,962,000

Team Lead

2,764,000

DevOps Engineer / Infrastructure Developer

1,324,000

Data Analyst / Data Engineer / Data Scientist

974,000

CIO / CEO / CTO

800,000

Technical Support

Number of software developers by primary programming language

Respondents were allowed to select up to 3 primary languages


6,223,000

Java

5,816,000

JavaScript

5,469,000

Python

4,643,000

TypeScript

3,785,000

SQL

3,141,000

HTML / CSS

3,051,000

C#

Number of software developers by programming language used in the last 12 months


12,863,000

JavaScript

10,344,000

SQL

10,264,000

HTML / CSS

10,211,000

Python

9,184,000

Java

8,699,000

TypeScript

8,059,000

Shell scripting languages

Number of software developers by software type


8,978,000

Websites

6,716,000

Business applications

6,487,000

Web services (without a GUI)

4,845,000

Cloud services

3,931,000

System software

3,226,000

Finance

2,479,000

IT infrastructure

Number of software developers by platforms


12,692,000

Server / Infrastructure / Cloud

12,134,000

Browser

8,552,000

Desktop

6,310,000

Mobile

1,853,000

IoT / Embedded

991,000

WebAssembly

318,000

Console (Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo, etc.)

Number of software developers by operating system


11,748,000

Windows

10,241,000

macOS

9,312,000

Linux

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