Developer Ecosystem 2025Developer Ecosystem 2025Learn how other developers are growing and managing their lives, careers, and paychecks.
The world isn’t flat. Where you work as a developer shapes how you see and experience the job market.
Geography isn’t the only factor. The stage you’re at in your career journey creates another divide.
Junior developers find the job market challenging
Senior developers share this concern
As we gain more experience, our work shifts from technical problems to coordinating teams.
It’s a thrilling/changing/dizzying existence, with constant new challenges as we progress in our careers.
Context switching isn't inevitable
Eastern Europe and UK developers are 4x more likely to struggle with context switching than those in Japan.
Japan and South Korea prove that software development doesn’t have to involve constant interruptions. These regions have created focused environments that other organizations can learn from.
Learning pressure differs globally
South Korea's developers are 2x more likely to struggle with technical skills than UK developers.
This could reflect rapid technology adoption cycles outpacing skill development resources.
Infrastructure investment pays off
Indian developers are 3x more likely to experience CI/CD delays than Japanese developers...
India's high delays versus Japan's efficiency shows that infrastructure investment directly translates to daily developer productivity gains.
When it comes to life as a developer, where we live matters – but our technical skills and our place of work matter, too.
The last 1%
work from another place that’s neither the office or remotely from home. Coffeeshop? Studio? We’ll never know.
Ka-ching!
The more specialized developers are, the more they get paid.
Scala leads among the top earners despite being used by only 2% of developers as a primary language.
What do we want? More Kotlin contributors. When do we want them? Now! Our multiplatform language has 700+ contributors so far, and we want more.
Learn about Kotlin
Company size also affects compensation. Large companies have nearly twice as many top earners as small companies.
Share of top-paid employees in...
Burnout Rate
for those with 1-2 years of experience
Developer well-being isn’t uniform
among those with 16+ years of experience
The size of an organization shapes the mental health support available
