SlashData Q1 2026 insights on AI adoption among developers, AI ROI measurement, and how software teams evaluate the value of AI developer tools.

At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2026, Liam Bollman-Dodd of SlashData joined Bob Killen of CNCF to discuss the latest State of Cloud Native report. The interview explored why the cloud native developer population has surged, how AI is reshaping infrastructure decisions, and why platform engineering is changing the way developers interact with cloud native tools.

There are 19.9M Cloud Native Developers in Q1 2026

We’re proud to be able to tell executives, product and marketing professionals what's actually happening: how software gets built, what developers need, what teams prioritise, and how AI is actually adopted.

Customer satisfaction scores vary by country. Learn why global ratings can mislead and how culturally calibrated benchmarks reveal real performance and churn risk.

Explore two DevOps maturity approaches—developer autonomy and centralised platforms—and how each shapes security practices, velocity, and operational consistency.

SlashData’s State of Developer Nation offers data-first insights on AI coding tools, agentic AI, GenAI barriers, backend and cloud, FinOps, and programming language communities.

2025 SlashData–UpCloud study: 1 in 3 cloud leaders prioritize AI integration (US 40%, EU 28%), driving skills, vendor AI, and compliance.

Explore key developer trends: developer population growth, rising languages like Rust, and booming sectors like embedded and visual tools.

Our last SoN highlights explore the profile of developers working on startups and teamwork and how developers feel about their teams.

We explore who citizen developers are, their use of no-code/low-code tools, and their growing role in tool-buying decisions.

The latest software developer market insights and industry data from the State of Developer Nation public reports.

This is how SlashData ensures that our clients always access clean data. We walk you through our process of fraudulent response detection.

We look at the importance of having clean data for decision-making and compare it to online dating. Here’s how we keep our data trustworthy.

We explore where developers go to find information and stay up-to-date, based on the insights from our latest developer research wave.

All software development industry reports are available. New data on DevOps Software Supply Chain Management & the profile of new ML/AI devs

2 new additions to the State of the Developer Nation report series: Software developer happiness at work and emerging technologies adoption

Are DevOps technologies associated with productivity? We define developer productivity & look at how team size, tools/technologies affect it

The Game Developer Population Forecast measures the number of game developers around the world, their status and preferences.

How many developers are working on 5G and 6g? Let's explore the current landscape of developers working on 5G and 6G technologies.