Web and software development statistics 2026

of developers use AI coding assistants or coding agents at work (Stack Overflow 2026 survey)

Sample: 30,903 valid responses from 169 countries, fielded 23 Jun to 5 Aug 2026; self-selected online survey. Each question has its own n.

of developers with 1 to 5 years of work experience use AI coding assistants or agents, the lowest of any experience group

Sample: n = 4,094 respondents with 1 to 5 years of work experience.

of developers who use AI coding assistants or agents use them every day

Sample: 30,903 valid responses from 169 countries, fielded 23 Jun to 5 Aug 2026; self-selected online survey. Each question has its own n.

of developers who used a coding agent or assistant in the past year used Claude Code; 58.7% used GitHub Copilot

Sample: 30,903 valid responses from 169 countries, fielded 23 Jun to 5 Aug 2026; self-selected online survey. Each question has its own n.

of developers say they trust AI output when they can easily verify it; 6.6% trust it for many tasks including important work decisions

Sample: 30,903 valid responses from 169 countries, fielded 23 Jun to 5 Aug 2026; self-selected online survey. Each question has its own n.

of developers used or planned to use AI tools in their development process in 2025, up from 76% in 2024

Sample: 49,000+ responses from 177 countries; self-selected online survey.

of developers distrusted the accuracy of AI tools in 2025, more than the 33% who trusted it

Sample: 49,000+ responses from 177 countries; self-selected online survey.

faster: freelance developers with GitHub Copilot finished one JavaScript server task in 71 minutes vs 161 without it (2022 test)

Sample: 95 professional freelance developers recruited on Upwork (45 with Copilot, 50 without); the paper says thirty-five from both groups completed the task and survey. Most aged 25-34, mainly from India and Pakistan.

longer: experienced open-source developers took 19% more time on tasks when allowed AI tools (early-2025 test; METR now calls it out of date)

Sample: 16 experienced developers from large open-source repositories, 246 real issues randomly assigned to AI allowed or not.

average security pass rate of AI-written code across more than 100 models tested since 2023, so about 4 in 10 tasks fail (vendor test)

median yearly pay of US software developers, QA analysts and testers in 2025 ($135,980 for software developers alone)

jobs for US software developers, QA analysts and testers in 2025, projected to grow 10% to 2035

median yearly pay of US web developers and digital designers in 2025; web developers alone earned $92,650

of mobile websites had good Core Web Vitals in 2025, against 56% on desktop

Sample: Chrome UX Report real-user data for millions of websites (origins), mobile and desktop.

of mobile pages had good loading speed (Largest Contentful Paint) in June 2025, the weakest of the three Core Web Vitals

Sample: Chrome UX Report real-user data for millions of websites (origins), mobile and desktop.

of all websites use WordPress, a 58.3% share of sites with a known content management system

of websites with a known server-side language use PHP; JavaScript is second at 8.1%

of all websites now run on Lovable, an AI app builder used for vibe coding, slightly more than Astro or GitHub Pages (0.2% each)

developers on GitHub in 2025, after more than 36 million joined in a year (over one per second)

of new developers on GitHub use Copilot in their first week; TypeScript became GitHub's most used language in Aug 2025