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Best-in-class research on how AI is reshaping software development, for the world’s top technology companies

See which tools developers choose, which they abandon, and why, so your next product, pricing and marketing decisions rest on what developers actually do.

Surveyed a year
30,000+
Countries reached
160+
Years tracking
20

Trusted by the top technology companies

From hyperscalers and chip vendors to open source foundations.

  • Microsoft
  • Meta
  • Google
  • NVIDIA
  • Salesforce
  • OpenRouter
  • Red Hat
  • Mozilla
  • CNCF
  • Progress Software
  • Twilio
  • Okta

20 years of tracking software technology trends

Every figure tells you what it covers, so you know what you are deciding on: the question we asked, the wave it came from, the sample size, and the base it is a percentage of.

Tracking
Since 2005
the same questionnaire, wave over wave
Sample
30,000+
developers surveyed a year
Reach
160+
countries reached

Helping product, platform, and engineering leaders make better product, marketing, and technology decisions

Find the job closest to yours and see what the data says.

“I build AI platforms”

Adoption and sentiment by role, size and region. Bottom-up sizing for an investment case. Willingness to pay by cohort.

Research for AI platform teams

“I run engineering”

Independent evidence on what AI tooling actually delivers. Tool benchmarks against your architecture and security checklists. Which roles to hire as AI changes coding.

Insights for engineering leaders

Meet the team tracking the software development economy

The team writes the questionnaires, analyses the data and reviews each other’s work. One of them joins your calls.

  • Liam Bollmann-Dodd

    Liam Bollmann-Dodd

    Principal Market Research Consultant

  • Nikita Solodkov

    Nikita Solodkov

    Principal Research Consultant

  • Bleona Bicaj

    Bleona Bicaj

    Principal Research Consultant

  • Jed Stephens

    Jed Stephens

    Senior Data Scientist

  • Alex Veritsis

    Alex Veritsis

    Senior Survey Operations Analyst

  • Evgenia Dimitriadi

    Evgenia Dimitriadi

    Data Analyst

  • Eleni-Christina Gkampoura

    Eleni-Christina Gkampoura

    Data Analyst

  • Myriam Boualami

    Myriam Boualami

    Market Research Analyst

Get the answers to your exact questions

A survey of your own. Your questions added to our next wave. One-to-one developer interviews. Time with the analyst who ran the study, to work through what it means for your decision.

  • Where developers drop off in your product

  • How you compare with the tools you compete against

  • What each cohort will pay, before you change pricing

  • Which channels and content actually engage developers

Shining the light on the software development economy

Co-branded reports on primary developer data, for launches, events and press.

Recent co-branded work with

  • CNCF
  • Mozilla
  • UpCloud
  • Instruqt

Best-in-class research, benchmarks and foresight into how developers, tools, teams, and software are changing

Decide with the evidence in front of you: what developers are adopting, what they are dropping and how fast, with the sample size and the base stated on every figure so you can see what it covers. Start with the free report, then take the question you actually need answered.

Talk to an analyst

What answers from developers do you need to support your next product or marketing decision?