Employment status in 2021
This year over 80,000 respondents took the time to share their feedback on trends that are shaping software development.
According to 2021 Stack Overflow developer survey in terms of employment a greater percentage of respondents work part time, while those indicating full time employment decreased. This may reflect the effects of the pandemic, which saw workers from all industries stepping back and reevaluating their relationship to full and in-person employment.
80.68% of professional developers are employed full-time, a decrease from 83% in 2020. The percentage of professional developers saying they were independent contractors, freelancers, or self-employed increased from 9.5% in 2020 to 11.2% in 2021 - indicating potential job insecurity or a shift to more flexible work arrangements.
In the case of all the respondents, Student, full-time are in second place between freelancer and employed full-time.
Salary by developer type
Across the board, engineering managers, SREs, DevOps specialists, and data engineers tend to receive the highest salaries.
Salary and experience by developer type
Even though Engineering managers, SREs, DevOps specialist roles pay the most, the survey indicates they also have, on average, over ten years of professional experience. Data scientists or machine learning specialists are the 8th most paid but, on average, have the fewest years of experience. Designers are the lowest paid even though they have over ten years of experience on average.
Salary and experience by language
PHP developers are disproportionately underpaid compared to other languages with the same experience like Java, JavaScript or Go.
The pandemic has sped up efforts to offer more digital services for employees and customers, while also pushing forward cloud strategies, driving up demand for software developers across all industry sectors. If you wanna.
At the same time, employees are quitting their jobs at record-setting rates. During the COVID-19 pandemic, many entered a period of reflection, reevaluating their career paths with newfound perspective. Some people vowed never to work from an office again, while others sought out better benefits and work-life balance. This has led to high employee turnover and a spike in demand for top tech talent. If you are a Senior developer, a devops engineer or you are evaluating your career you can apply to our careers now and keep growing professionally in the IT environment.
