2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results (opens in new tab)

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"49,000+" makes this the least responses the survey has gotten since 2016 ("over fifty thousand"), every year in between has been in the 65-100k range. Seems as though enthusiasm around SO has diminished significantly over the past year.

My guess is that pro-AI devs have abandoned the site, and anti-AI devs are upset with their collaboration with AI companies.

lenerdenator8mo ago

GitHub Copilot and Cline are significantly less condescending.

ASalazarMX8mo ago

If SO disappeared, I wonder what effect it would have in the training of LLMs as languages and tooling continue to evolve.

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unwise-exe8mo ago

The site got to be a pain to try to participate in long before modern AI came around.

pelagicAustral8mo ago

This is the first year I didn't care to participate, but I've been away from SO for about 4 years now.

hu38mo ago

I can repeat the same question to AI all day and it is happy to help me.

ASalazarMX8mo ago

Which is something you shouldn't ever do to a human. SO made you search and think before posting, while AI trains people to outsource thinking.

For all its failings, SO strived for a very high signal-to-noise ratio, and it achieved it.

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mathattack7mo ago

Some added commentary on the concentration of programming languages: https://open.substack.com/pub/therosen/p/analyzing-the-stack...

phendrenad27mo ago

I think people are abandoning SO because AI often gives better answers. And also SO search results on Google just got so much worse a few years ago, you search Google for "how to do X in framework Y" and get SO results about doing X in framework Z.

open5928mo ago

For some context on demographics of this survey: I signed up for SO in about ~2011 and haven’t participated in SO since about 2015. But I have generally positive sentiment towards the survey so I do it every year.

A lot of comments in this thread make the assumption that the only respondents are people who actively use SO but that isn’t true. I just get notified about the survey through email every year and respond.

Sammi8mo ago

Yeah those most likely to respond are those who find SO to be important and value it for whatever reason. And inversely those unlikely to respond are those who dislike SO. So the nature of SO itself will be reflected in the demographics of the survey responders.

wing-_-nuts8mo ago

C# as popular and commonly used as java? Hmm either I'm woefully behind the times, most java devs aren't answering SO surveys, or the data is wrong. Then again the fact that C# is used in indie game dev probably gives it a serious boost in the 'evangelical user' category. It is a nice language, I just find java to be far more used in industry.

Also, the editors? I'm sorry I've simply never gotten vsCode when jetbrains and neovim exist, much less N++.

Regardless I think I have to acknowledge that maybe I'm not your average dev. TBH your average dev is probably very happy coding up react widgets in vsCode, and I'm the grouchy greybeard behind the times.

qsort8mo ago

Probably not as popular, but C# is absolutely up there, even though it doesn't get a lot of mindshare. I work for a small firm that does consulting for enterprise customers and I see a lot of C# around.

Europe especially is basically MS's backyard.

gt08mo ago

In Australia, C# feels more popular than Java. I used to take on freelance projects in both and had far more work in C#.

I agree it'll pop up more with "evangelical users" though, 100%.

I've often thought that when you see Mac and Linux more strongly represented than you'd expect, I do wonder when people dual boot Windows 95% and Linux 5%, are they ticking the box for Linux? Does the VB.net hostage even bother to fill in the survey?

Agree on VS Code, it's OK if you can't find support elsewhere, but the JetBrains stuff is just in a different class.

My beard is only partially grey, but I agree with you.

Guid_NewGuid8mo ago

On C# this could be your country/sample. As far as I remember, though this is from almost a decade ago now, C# is more popular than Java in the UK and Australia but Java comes out ahead in the US.

mathattack8mo ago

Recall that this is a StackOverlow survey, and reflects their history and audience. [0] Even still, I'm also surprised.

[0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/09/01/language-wars/

Const-me8mo ago

I believe Java is more popular for enterprise and web apps.

.NET is widely used for videogames (games made with Unity, Godot, Unigine engines, also internal tools and game servers), desktop software, embedded software. Java is rarely used for these things, hence the results of that survey.

OkayPhysicist8mo ago

I think you're grossly overlooking swathes of relatively small, non-tech companies that just treat Microsoft as the default for everything. Need a programming language? C#'s there. Need a coding text editor? VSCode.

koshersalt8mo ago

Vscode is free, which is a huge positive for it. For lots of places it can be hard to get budget for dev tools. A lot of it can depend on your industry or region

open5928mo ago

Stack overflow is built using C# and I remember there being a large Microsoft stack developer community on SO back when I used it. That might skew the results

sapiogram8mo ago

In Norway, C# seems to have surpassed Java in the finance sector several years ago. C# is also much bigger than Java in game development.

camdroidw8mo ago

You seem so confident, do you have insights into the entire industry?

wing-_-nuts8mo ago

>Regardless I think I have to acknowledge that maybe I'm not your average dev. TBH your average dev is probably very happy coding up react widgets in vsCode, and I'm the grouchy greybeard behind the times.

You should work on your reading comprehension

flufluflufluffy8mo ago

I usually participate, this year I don’t remember being notified about it, but I guess that probably goes to show I haven’t been using SO nearly as much as I used to due to AI tools.

On a separate note, why are things like cargo/apt/homebrew being put into the same category as Docker and Terraform, which also includes entire cloud platforms themselves (Azure, GCP,etc…). Might as well throw programming languages in there for good measure xD

chistev8mo ago

How is it that Windows always dominate these Stack Overflow developer surveys, but people talk like Mac is the one that's ubiquitous among devs?

And I hate these big accept cookies pop ups or whatever they are called that impede use of a website unless you accept. I couldn't find an option to reject all cookies.

jchw8mo ago

Mac users talk like Mac is ubiquitous among whatever niche they're in. That's a trope as old as the Year of the Linux desktop.

camdroidw8mo ago

I remember my "Linux friend" sent me an excited email when WSL was announced, signalling that somehow this meant that Microsoft has conceded. My response: "Finally the year of Linux on desktop". I think that was his last email ;-)

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fabian2k8mo ago

Stack Overflow is a bubble, but Hacker News and other dev-focused online places are probably an even larger bubble. There's a lot of software developed that isn't particularly visible, and where the developers are not as active online as the ones here.

lenerdenator8mo ago

The "sexy" development stuff (FOSS web frameworks, LLMs, etc.) have a habit of happening on Macs.

Not all of it, mind.

lostmsu8mo ago

> "sexy" ... web frameworks, LLMs ... on Macs

Oh my, I don't even know where to start on this one. If programming is sex, web programming is submission. Sure it sounds fun, but not for regular people. As for LLMs I can't imagine a situation where I'd want to run them on Macs and ditch my Nvidia graphics.

The real reason is that Windows users are just not very loud.

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rofrol7mo ago

Total for Linux when distros combined dominates Windows

politelemon8mo ago

It's simple and observed over a number of years. HN is an echo chamber. Mac users drown out and shout down other users here. Other users go elsewhere for discourse. As a case in point look at the other replies to your comment.

On a separate note it's sad to see that Ubuntu has fallen behind.

coldpie8mo ago

uBlock Origin has a Cookie Notices filter which blocks those. NoScript worked for this one, too.

ChrisRR8mo ago

For some reason excited young devs learning javascript are convinced that they need a mac

xigoi8mo ago

> Stack Overflow is a frequent destination for information. A strong majority (82%) visit at least a few times per month, with 25% visiting daily or more often.

A survey among visitors of a tobacco shop shows that 82% of people smoke frequently.

s1mplicissimus8mo ago

The numbers don't add up to 100%. I personally draw strong conclusions about the overall quality of statistics when I find an obvious error just from scanning over it.

Highly trust 3.1%

Somewhat trust 29.6%

Somewhat distrust 26.1%

Highly distrust 19.6%

========================

sum 78.4%

source: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/ai#2-accuracy-of-ai-too...

colingwOP8mo ago

No Emacs entry under editors, and no Clojure in the languages section? Somebody on the survey team had a bone to pick.

axblount8mo ago

They're in the write-ins for their respective categories. Emacs with 0.1%. Clojure with an impressive 0%!

miohtama8mo ago

But they mention it! (:

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uberman8mo ago

I thought Emacs was an operating system :-)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35559146

uludag8mo ago

No surprise seeing as they authored this: https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/11/09/modern-ide-vs-vim-emac...

Maybe they think the certain generation who uses Emacs has died off or something.

Last years results had Emacs at 4.2% https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology . I would expect it to be roughly the same. Emacs seems to hover around this usage percentage.

robenkleene8mo ago

I always jump straight to the IDE section because that's the most intersting to me https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology#1-dev-id-es

A few notes:

- VS Code at #1 (of course) with 75%, Visual Studio at #2 with 29%

- Vim at 24% and Neovim at 14%, which seems pretty whopping to me (I wonder how much overlap is there, the survey is clearly "click all that apply")

- Cursor is 17.9%, wild

- Nano is 12.5%, lol

- Sublime Text is 10.5%, impressive given how much the IDE market has changed

- Zed is 7.3% I wonder if that's enough to be Ramen profitable for a small team? (Not familiar with what Zed is charging for these days)

a_e_k7mo ago

And Emacs was banished to a write-in this year, when it was near the middle of the pack at 4.2% (Emacs) and 0.4% (Spacemacs) last year.

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology#1-integrated...

It's also been fairly stable over the last few years, so it's hard for me to believe that it just suddenly dropped off to 0.2%:

    | 2021 | 5.30% |
    | 2022 | 4.51% |
    | 2023 | 4.69% |
    | 2024 | 4.2%  |

qsort8mo ago

Vim is very likely to be an editor that complements a full IDE if you're just doing something quick. If you asked me I'd also check Vim even though I'm usually on Jetbrains.

robenkleene8mo ago

Yeah that makes sense, here I'm just curious if 38% of developers really use Vim (i.e., Vim [24%] + Neovim [14%]), which seems really high to me (even if it's assumed a lot of these are using Vim as a second editor). Or if it's just that a lot of folks are checking both Vim and Neovim.

LVB8mo ago

Zed lets you pay for AI, and I’m a happy customer. Their agent feature works well with Claude models IMO and the full integration and editor experience is excellent.

ollien8mo ago

Can anyone make sense of the sankey chart under "Developers at all levels are exploring the evolving AI landscape through Stack Overflow"? How does "Large Language Model" flow into "Tailwind CSS 4"?

flufluflufluffy8mo ago

I think it was made by an AI itself

I joke, but I think it’s depicting relative proportions of how many people who were “interested in” Gemini are now “interested in” other things and how different subgroups’ “interested in” thing changed over time. So there was a sizable group that became interested in Tailwind at one point

ollien8mo ago

As in, Gemini users are interested in Tailwind? Is this suggesting that Gemini is suggesting tailwind, and people are using it? It's very weird

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philonoist8mo ago

Did anyone observe that .NET core is far ahead of Spring in popularity and beats other backend frameworks in other measures as well?

sebstefan7mo ago

They got rid of the salary by languages used category?

I liked seeing the languages that "paid more".

armchairhacker8mo ago

Some comparisons:

Job satisfaction (happy/complacent/unhappy):

- 2025: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/work#5-job-satisfaction (24.5/47.1/28.4)

- 2024: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/professional-developers... (20.2/47.7/32.1)

- ...

- 2015: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2015#work-satisfaction (36/51.4/11.6, complacent includes "somewhat" and "so-so")

Work environment (remote/hybrid/in-person):

- 2025: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/work#1-work-environment (45/37.1/17.9, but I counted "your choice" as remote)

- 2024: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/work#1-work-environment (38/42/20)

- 2023: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-employment-wor... (41.41/42.18/16.41)

- 2022: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-employment-wor... (42.98/42.44/14.58)

- ...

- 2017: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2017#remote-work (11.1/52.8/31.8, hybrid includes all answers of "sometimes", the 4.2 who said "it's complicated" not included)

Salary (engineering manager/full-stack/academic, not adjusted for inflation):

- 2025: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/work#salary (130k/73k/57k)

- 2024: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/work#salary (124k/63k/49k)

- 2023: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-salary-salary-... (124k/71k/54k)

- 2022: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-salary-salary-... (112k/66k/55k)

- 2021: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2021#section-salary-salary-b... (96k/56k/49k)

- 2020: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2020#work-salary-by-develope... (92k/54k/41k)

- 2019: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2019#work-_-salary-by-develo... (95k/57k/38k)

Employment status (employed/contractor/unemployed, not counting students/retired/unknown):

- 2025: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/work#1-employment-statu... (69.8/13.9/4.6, all are less for some reason)

- 2024: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/work#1-employment-statu... (75.3/16.4/7.8)

- 2023: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-employment-emp... (75/15.91/6.32)

- 2022: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-employment-emp... (74.4/14.95/6.44)

- 2021: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2021#section-employment-empl... (67.26/9.65/5.02, like 2025)

- 2020: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2020#work-employment-status (74.4/8.9/4.2)

- 2019: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2019#work-_-employment-statu... (79/9.8/10.8)

darth_avocado8mo ago

Did the people satisfied with their jobs increase because the unsatisfied ones are no longer employed?

yahoozoo8mo ago

Why is Cargo the top cloud infrastructure tool? I thought it was just Rust’s package manager?

rdlts8mo ago

Pretty cool to see Redis as the most used Database for AI Agents!

kurtis_reed8mo ago

Why?

ChrisRR8mo ago

Meh, as usual this survey gives completely skewed view of the industry by being dominated by students and junior devs.

gdhkgdhkvff8mo ago

Only ~14% of respondents had <=5 years of dev experience. And 55% were >10 years dev experience.

One thing I did find funny though was this survey found that devs overwhelmingly visit stackoverflow aka the site that puts the survey out found that so many people that use the site, use the site.

bluefirebrand8mo ago

> And 55% were >10 years dev experience

This doesn't mean they aren't Juniors though

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avgDev8mo ago

I found that odd.

Since I started using ChatGPT, I rarely visit stack. If I need some code ChatGPT will tailor it to my example and I can get up and running quickly to figure out how it works.

ChrisRR8mo ago

That's <5 years of experience in coding. I suspect most people say they've been programming since their teens

24.8% of respondents have been programming for less than 5 years

AnimalMuppet8mo ago

Sounds like Stack Overflow is your dad's programming help resource. The kids are somewhere else.

pluto_modadic8mo ago

it would be rather odd if 60% of the respondents didn't use the site, wouldn't it?

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biggestfan8mo ago

My guess is that pro-AI devs have abandoned the site, and anti-AI devs are upset with their collaboration with AI companies.

lenerdenator8mo ago

GitHub Copilot and Cline are significantly less condescending.

ASalazarMX8mo ago

If SO disappeared, I wonder what effect it would have in the training of LLMs as languages and tooling continue to evolve.

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unwise-exe8mo ago

The site got to be a pain to try to participate in long before modern AI came around.

pelagicAustral8mo ago

This is the first year I didn't care to participate, but I've been away from SO for about 4 years now.

hu38mo ago

I can repeat the same question to AI all day and it is happy to help me.

ASalazarMX8mo ago

Which is something you shouldn't ever do to a human. SO made you search and think before posting, while AI trains people to outsource thinking.

For all its failings, SO strived for a very high signal-to-noise ratio, and it achieved it.

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mathattack7mo ago

Some added commentary on the concentration of programming languages: https://open.substack.com/pub/therosen/p/analyzing-the-stack...

phendrenad27mo ago

open5928mo ago

Sammi8mo ago

wing-_-nuts8mo ago

Also, the editors? I'm sorry I've simply never gotten vsCode when jetbrains and neovim exist, much less N++.

qsort8mo ago

Europe especially is basically MS's backyard.

gt08mo ago

In Australia, C# feels more popular than Java. I used to take on freelance projects in both and had far more work in C#.

I agree it'll pop up more with "evangelical users" though, 100%.

Agree on VS Code, it's OK if you can't find support elsewhere, but the JetBrains stuff is just in a different class.

My beard is only partially grey, but I agree with you.

Guid_NewGuid8mo ago

On C# this could be your country/sample. As far as I remember, though this is from almost a decade ago now, C# is more popular than Java in the UK and Australia but Java comes out ahead in the US.

mathattack8mo ago

Recall that this is a StackOverlow survey, and reflects their history and audience. [0] Even still, I'm also surprised.

[0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/09/01/language-wars/

Const-me8mo ago

I believe Java is more popular for enterprise and web apps.

OkayPhysicist8mo ago

koshersalt8mo ago

Vscode is free, which is a huge positive for it. For lots of places it can be hard to get budget for dev tools. A lot of it can depend on your industry or region

open5928mo ago

Stack overflow is built using C# and I remember there being a large Microsoft stack developer community on SO back when I used it. That might skew the results

sapiogram8mo ago

In Norway, C# seems to have surpassed Java in the finance sector several years ago. C# is also much bigger than Java in game development.

camdroidw8mo ago

You seem so confident, do you have insights into the entire industry?

wing-_-nuts8mo ago

You should work on your reading comprehension

flufluflufluffy8mo ago

I usually participate, this year I don’t remember being notified about it, but I guess that probably goes to show I haven’t been using SO nearly as much as I used to due to AI tools.

chistev8mo ago

How is it that Windows always dominate these Stack Overflow developer surveys, but people talk like Mac is the one that's ubiquitous among devs?

And I hate these big accept cookies pop ups or whatever they are called that impede use of a website unless you accept. I couldn't find an option to reject all cookies.

jchw8mo ago

Mac users talk like Mac is ubiquitous among whatever niche they're in. That's a trope as old as the Year of the Linux desktop.

camdroidw8mo ago

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fabian2k8mo ago

lenerdenator8mo ago

The "sexy" development stuff (FOSS web frameworks, LLMs, etc.) have a habit of happening on Macs.

Not all of it, mind.

lostmsu8mo ago

> "sexy" ... web frameworks, LLMs ... on Macs

The real reason is that Windows users are just not very loud.

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rofrol7mo ago

Total for Linux when distros combined dominates Windows

politelemon8mo ago

On a separate note it's sad to see that Ubuntu has fallen behind.

coldpie8mo ago

uBlock Origin has a Cookie Notices filter which blocks those. NoScript worked for this one, too.

ChrisRR8mo ago

For some reason excited young devs learning javascript are convinced that they need a mac

xigoi8mo ago

> Stack Overflow is a frequent destination for information. A strong majority (82%) visit at least a few times per month, with 25% visiting daily or more often.

A survey among visitors of a tobacco shop shows that 82% of people smoke frequently.

s1mplicissimus8mo ago

The numbers don't add up to 100%. I personally draw strong conclusions about the overall quality of statistics when I find an obvious error just from scanning over it.

Highly trust 3.1%

Somewhat trust 29.6%

Somewhat distrust 26.1%

Highly distrust 19.6%

========================

sum 78.4%

source: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/ai#2-accuracy-of-ai-too...

colingwOP8mo ago

No Emacs entry under editors, and no Clojure in the languages section? Somebody on the survey team had a bone to pick.

axblount8mo ago

They're in the write-ins for their respective categories. Emacs with 0.1%. Clojure with an impressive 0%!

miohtama8mo ago

But they mention it! (:

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uberman8mo ago

I thought Emacs was an operating system :-)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35559146

uludag8mo ago

No surprise seeing as they authored this: https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/11/09/modern-ide-vs-vim-emac...

Maybe they think the certain generation who uses Emacs has died off or something.

Last years results had Emacs at 4.2% https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology . I would expect it to be roughly the same. Emacs seems to hover around this usage percentage.

robenkleene8mo ago

I always jump straight to the IDE section because that's the most intersting to me https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology#1-dev-id-es

A few notes:

- VS Code at #1 (of course) with 75%, Visual Studio at #2 with 29%

- Vim at 24% and Neovim at 14%, which seems pretty whopping to me (I wonder how much overlap is there, the survey is clearly "click all that apply")

- Cursor is 17.9%, wild

- Nano is 12.5%, lol

- Sublime Text is 10.5%, impressive given how much the IDE market has changed

- Zed is 7.3% I wonder if that's enough to be Ramen profitable for a small team? (Not familiar with what Zed is charging for these days)

a_e_k7mo ago

And Emacs was banished to a write-in this year, when it was near the middle of the pack at 4.2% (Emacs) and 0.4% (Spacemacs) last year.

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology#1-integrated...

It's also been fairly stable over the last few years, so it's hard for me to believe that it just suddenly dropped off to 0.2%:

    | 2021 | 5.30% |
    | 2022 | 4.51% |
    | 2023 | 4.69% |
    | 2024 | 4.2%  |

qsort8mo ago

Vim is very likely to be an editor that complements a full IDE if you're just doing something quick. If you asked me I'd also check Vim even though I'm usually on Jetbrains.

robenkleene8mo ago

LVB8mo ago

Zed lets you pay for AI, and I’m a happy customer. Their agent feature works well with Claude models IMO and the full integration and editor experience is excellent.

ollien8mo ago

Can anyone make sense of the sankey chart under "Developers at all levels are exploring the evolving AI landscape through Stack Overflow"? How does "Large Language Model" flow into "Tailwind CSS 4"?

flufluflufluffy8mo ago

I think it was made by an AI itself

ollien8mo ago

As in, Gemini users are interested in Tailwind? Is this suggesting that Gemini is suggesting tailwind, and people are using it? It's very weird

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philonoist8mo ago

Did anyone observe that .NET core is far ahead of Spring in popularity and beats other backend frameworks in other measures as well?

sebstefan7mo ago

They got rid of the salary by languages used category?

I liked seeing the languages that "paid more".

armchairhacker8mo ago

Some comparisons:

Job satisfaction (happy/complacent/unhappy):

- 2025: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/work#5-job-satisfaction (24.5/47.1/28.4)

- 2024: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/professional-developers... (20.2/47.7/32.1)

- ...

- 2015: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2015#work-satisfaction (36/51.4/11.6, complacent includes "somewhat" and "so-so")

Work environment (remote/hybrid/in-person):

- 2025: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/work#1-work-environment (45/37.1/17.9, but I counted "your choice" as remote)

- 2024: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/work#1-work-environment (38/42/20)

- 2023: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-employment-wor... (41.41/42.18/16.41)

- 2022: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-employment-wor... (42.98/42.44/14.58)

- ...

- 2017: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2017#remote-work (11.1/52.8/31.8, hybrid includes all answers of "sometimes", the 4.2 who said "it's complicated" not included)

Salary (engineering manager/full-stack/academic, not adjusted for inflation):

- 2025: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/work#salary (130k/73k/57k)

- 2024: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/work#salary (124k/63k/49k)

- 2023: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-salary-salary-... (124k/71k/54k)

- 2022: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-salary-salary-... (112k/66k/55k)

- 2021: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2021#section-salary-salary-b... (96k/56k/49k)

- 2020: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2020#work-salary-by-develope... (92k/54k/41k)

- 2019: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2019#work-_-salary-by-develo... (95k/57k/38k)

Employment status (employed/contractor/unemployed, not counting students/retired/unknown):

- 2025: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/work#1-employment-statu... (69.8/13.9/4.6, all are less for some reason)

- 2024: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/work#1-employment-statu... (75.3/16.4/7.8)

- 2023: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-employment-emp... (75/15.91/6.32)

- 2022: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-employment-emp... (74.4/14.95/6.44)

- 2021: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2021#section-employment-empl... (67.26/9.65/5.02, like 2025)

- 2020: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2020#work-employment-status (74.4/8.9/4.2)

- 2019: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2019#work-_-employment-statu... (79/9.8/10.8)

darth_avocado8mo ago

Did the people satisfied with their jobs increase because the unsatisfied ones are no longer employed?

yahoozoo8mo ago

Why is Cargo the top cloud infrastructure tool? I thought it was just Rust’s package manager?

rdlts8mo ago

Pretty cool to see Redis as the most used Database for AI Agents!

kurtis_reed8mo ago

Why?

ChrisRR8mo ago

Meh, as usual this survey gives completely skewed view of the industry by being dominated by students and junior devs.

gdhkgdhkvff8mo ago

Only ~14% of respondents had <=5 years of dev experience. And 55% were >10 years dev experience.

One thing I did find funny though was this survey found that devs overwhelmingly visit stackoverflow aka the site that puts the survey out found that so many people that use the site, use the site.

bluefirebrand8mo ago

> And 55% were >10 years dev experience

This doesn't mean they aren't Juniors though

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avgDev8mo ago

I found that odd.

Since I started using ChatGPT, I rarely visit stack. If I need some code ChatGPT will tailor it to my example and I can get up and running quickly to figure out how it works.

ChrisRR8mo ago

That's <5 years of experience in coding. I suspect most people say they've been programming since their teens

24.8% of respondents have been programming for less than 5 years

AnimalMuppet8mo ago

Sounds like Stack Overflow is your dad's programming help resource. The kids are somewhere else.

pluto_modadic8mo ago

it would be rather odd if 60% of the respondents didn't use the site, wouldn't it?

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