Stack Overflow1 published the results of their 2025 user survey conducted in May and June. The data features roughly 50,000 responses from 166 countries.
The survey has insights regarding:
- Developers:
- Technology:
- AI:
- Work:
- Stack Overflow itself:
- account
- usage
- frequency
- etc.
Footnotes
Still around, despite AI.↩︎
Mostly developers↩︎
Mostly early-career↩︎
Bachelor and Master dominate.↩︎
SQL comes third, Python fourth.↩︎
PostgreSQL takes first place.↩︎
Docker dominates.↩︎
Microsoft Visual Studio Code for a whopping 75%!↩︎
OpenAI GPT over everything, twice as much as Claude Sonnet.↩︎
Half of respondents use AI daily.↩︎
Two thirds: favorable↩︎
So-so↩︎
Most frustrating: AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite.↩︎
Mostly employed↩︎
One third remote↩︎