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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 2025, the number of professional developers worldwide reached approximately 20.8 million people. See the charts below for a breakdown of trends in the total number of professional developers globally between 2019 and 2025.

Number of Software developers (in millions)

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

Top 15 countries by number of professional developers

Number of professional developers by age groups (in millions)

18‑20

21‑24

25‑29

30‑34

35‑39

40‑49

50‑59

60+

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Number of developers by segments

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Number of software developers by top 12 countries

4,040,000

China

3,178,000

United States

2,846,000

India

1,328,000

Japan

680,000

Brazil

655,000

Germany

544,000

United Kingdom

Number of software developers by age group

277,000

18‑20

2,585,000

21‑24

5,229,000

25‑29

4,304,000

30‑34

3,426,000

35‑39

3,468,000

40‑49

1,232,000

50‑59

275,000

60+

Number of software developers by professional experience

547,000

<1 year

2,005,000

1‑2 years

5,029,000

3‑5 years

5,527,000

6‑10 years

3,365,000

11‑15 years

4,272,000

16+ years

Number of software developers by activities involved

20,799,000

Coding / Programming

12,800,000

Code Reviewing

9,375,000

System Design

9,297,000

Deployment

6,681,000

Infrastructure Development / DevOps

6,553,000

Testing

4,232,000

AI engineering

Number of software developers by job title

19,537,000

Developer / Programmer / Software Engineer

3,478,000

Architect

3,146,000

Team Lead

2,556,000

DevOps Engineer / Infrastructure Developer

1,321,000

Data Analyst / Data Engineer / Data Scientist

1,116,000

CIO / CEO / CTO

855,000

UX / UI Designer

Number of software developers by primary programming language

Respondents were allowed to select up to 3 primary languages

7,109,000

Java

5,965,000

Python

5,596,000

JavaScript

5,449,000

TypeScript

3,773,000

SQL

3,306,000

HTML / CSS

2,890,000

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

13,448,000

JavaScript

11,124,000

HTML / CSS

11,075,000

Python

10,792,000

SQL

10,388,000

Java

10,190,000

TypeScript

8,456,000

Shell scripting languages

Number of software developers by software type

9,250,000

Business applications

8,734,000

Websites

7,048,000

Web services (without a GUI)

4,573,000

Cloud services

3,754,000

System software

3,161,000

IT infrastructure

2,994,000

Finance

Number of software developers by platforms

13,564,000

Server / Infrastructure / Cloud

12,970,000

Browser

9,113,000

Desktop

7,117,000

Mobile

1,963,000

IoT / Embedded

1,003,000

WebAssembly

370,000

Console (Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo, etc.)

Number of software developers by operating system

12,152,000

macOS

12,065,000

Windows

9,757,000

Linux

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