Worldwide Developer Census, 2020: Infrastructure Developers Dominate Part-Time Developer Segment

This IDC Market Perspective quantifies and segments the worldwide developer population in 2020.'The overall developer population in 2020 was 26.2 million and features 13.5 million full-time developers, 7.8 million part-time developers, and 4.9 million non-compensated developers. Because this data represents the number of developers as of January 1, 2020, the impact of COVID-19 on the worldwide developer population is not reflected in this quantification of the worldwide developer population. One of the key findings of this analysis is that application developers account for 72.3% of full-time developers and 26.2% of part-time developers. Conversely, infrastructure developers represent 27.7% and 73.8% of full-time and part-time developers, respectively.'