The 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey with Jody Bailey and Erin Yepis

The Stack Overflow developer survey is an annual survey conducted by Stack Overflow that gathers comprehensive insights from developers around the world. It offers a valuable snapshot of the global developer community, covering a wide range of topics such as preferred programming languages, tools, and technologies. Jody Bailey is the chief product and technology officer at Stack Overflow, and Erin Yepes is a research manager at Stack Overflow. They join the show with Sean Falconer to talk about the results of the 2025 developer survey, which was recently released. This episode is hosted by Sean Falconer. Check the show notes for more information on Sean's work and where to find him. Aaron and Jody, welcome to the show. Thank you. Great to be here, Sean. Yeah. And, Aaron, I guess I should say welcome back. This is now our annual podcasting event where we discuss the Stack Overflow developer survey, so I'm excited about that. Good. Yeah. Let's go ahead and get this set up for 2026. Yeah. Getting on the bolts early. Exactly. So I think we got a lot to cover. And before we get into it, I wanted you to help sort of frame what the Stack Overflow developer survey is for those that are not familiar with it. So can you give a quick explanation of what it is and what you're trying to accomplish with that? Yeah. So the Stack Overflow developer survey has existed for almost as long as Stack Overflow, the site, has existed. So this has been our fifteenth year of running it. It started as a very small thing. There's a lot of people on the site asking questions just to get that really clear aggregated view of what technologies are you using. Like, we can see what you're asking about, but it was just the most obvious question to ask that that community. And since then, it's grown into quite a bigger deal than that. But it's just a unique opportunity every year to get that temperature check from actual developers, from them directly saying themselves instead of a third party inferring what it is that developers use and care about and do. And it means a lot to our community. What's the typical number of people who are participating in sort of the makeup of those developer profiles? So for the most part, the core group is one of the questions that we ask is, do you code for work? So, majority of our users every year indicate that they are developer by profession. So they're working as developer somewhere this year. It was 76% indicated that. But the survey is open to, you know, people that are students as well or people that are adjacent in a way, like their PMs, project managers, and stuff like that. Besides that, we have a huge audience, obviously, here in The US of all the countries that responded this year, last year, and three years ago, The US, Germany, India, UK …