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Developer industry stats and where to find them.

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I always need to grab developer industry stats. Here's a reference list to find them.

Table of Contents

• How many developers are there in the world?
• Web mkt share
• GitHub stars
• npm downloads
• php
• dockerhub downloads
• Misc categories
  • Hiring
  • Industry Surveys
  • Misc Misc
• Tracking for this repo itself

How many developers are there in the world?

• 10 million https://matt-rickard.com/2021-state-of-developers/
• 18 million https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/rise-of-the-developer
• 21 million https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering_demographics
• 27 million (EDC estimate) https://www.future-processing.com/blog/how-many-developers-are-there-in-the-world-in-2019/
• 56 million (GitHub users) https://octoverse.github.com/ (projected to 100m)

confusion:

• https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2017/05/26/just-how-many-darned-developers-are-there-in-the-world-github-is-puzzled/
• https://blog.npmjs.org/post/143451680695/how-many-npm-users-are-there

Web mkt share

Market share of tech

• https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/ho-amazon
• wordpress mkt share https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cm-wordpress
• google analytics/tracking market share https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/traffic_analysis

Web frameworks mkt share

• https://httparchive.org/ crawls 5m URLs every month, runs lighthouse, opensource/completely public
  • they have an almanac https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2020/

GitHub stars

Star charts over time

• https://star-history.t9t.io
• https://seladb.github.io/StarTrack-js/#/

growing startups by GH star growth rate

• https://runacap.com/ross-index/

Daily stars

• mikeal daily tracker https://github.com/mikeal/daily
• changelog daily https://changelog.com/nightly

npm downloads

• https://www.npmtrends.com/
• https://npmcharts.com/
• https://npm-stat.com/

php

• https://packagist.org/packages/temporal/sdk/stats

dockerhub downloads

• docker/hub-feedback#1047 (comment)

Misc categories

Hiring

• https://www.hntrends.com/

Industry Surveys

lang agnostic

• Stackoverflow survey
  • 2020 https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#technology-programming-scripting-and-markup-languages-all-respondents
  • 2021 https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021
    • slides from stackkoverflow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZZnGnvTurQ
  • summary: https://matt-rickard.com/2021-state-of-developers
• https://medium.com/@hoffa/the-top-weekend-languages-according-to-githubs-code-6022ea2e33e8
• https://octoverse.github.com/
• https://www.digitalocean.com/currents/
• jetbrains https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2020/
• https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
• https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2021/03/01/language-rankings-1-21/
• https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar
• IEEE spectrum language popularity https://www.hpcwire.com/2020/07/22/python-again-tops-ieee-spectrums-programming-language-list/

JS specific

• https://stateofjs.com
  • important caveat on this https://davidea.st/articles/sampling-bias-fdr-state-of-js
• https://www.swyx.io/react-survey-2019/
• npm survey https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190423005225/en/npm-Inc.-Survey-What%E2%80%99s-New-in-JavaScript-2019
• "state of frontend" https://tsh.io/state-of-frontend/

Misc specific

• https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/04/17/Rust-survey-2019.html
• Database engines https://db-engines.com/en/ranking_trend
• http://redditlist.com
• http://hnrankings.info/22776108
• https://research.hackerrank.com/women-in-tech/2019

Misc Misc

i have no idea where to put these

• thoughtworks tech radar in JSON format https://www.thoughtworks.com/internal/api/radar/blips

• https://slashdata.co/free-resources

• web framework benchmarks https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r19&hw=ph&test=composite

• https://devstats.cncf.io/

  This is a toolset to visualize GitHub archives using Postgres databases and Grafana dashboards. It allows creating various metrics for the Kubernetes community (and also for all other CNCF projects). Everything is open source so that it can be used by other CNCF and non-CNCF open source projects. The only requirement is that project must be hosted on a public GitHub repository/repositories.

• https://www.akitasoftware.com/blog-posts/why-arent-there-more-programming-languages-startups

  By 2021, it’s generally agreed that there’s money in developer tools. Over the last few years, we watched Salesforce acquire Heroku for $212 million and Microsoft acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion. Today, the private company Postman is valued at $2 billion and HashiCorp is valued at $5.1 billion. Developer-first companies have also gone public and done well: the market cap of New Relic is over $4 billion; the market cap of Datadog is over $32 billion. But the data doesn’t support this. According to the State of the Developer Nation in 2017 (via SlashData), 77% of developers now have a say in tool selection. And they’re choosing to spend that tool budget on products that make their work lives easier, rather than tools that make their code higher quality. For better or for worse, these two concerns are not the same.

Tracking for this repo itself