# SlashData

> SlashData is a developer-economics research firm. We survey more than 30,000 software
> developers a year across 160+ countries, in 8+ languages and through 80+ channels, in
> two waves a year, and publish the results as free reports, paid reports and data
> dashboards. The numbers below and on the pages linked here come from our own surveys,
> not from third-party estimates.

## Start here

- [Home](https://www.slashdata.co/): what we measure and who the research is for.
- [Research](https://www.slashdata.co/research): the catalogue. Free reports and the blog, newest first.
- [Methodology](https://www.slashdata.co/methodology): how the Developer Nation survey is fielded, weighted and sized. Read this before quoting any figure.
- [About](https://www.slashdata.co/about): who we are.

## Who the research is for

- [Who we serve](https://www.slashdata.co/who-we-serve): the audiences we serve and where each one should start.
- [For developer marketing and DevRel](https://www.slashdata.co/who-we-serve/developer-marketing): Where to aim your programme next, and what to say about it. Adoption and churn benchmarks by region and company size.
- [For AI platform teams](https://www.slashdata.co/who-we-serve/ai-platforms): Adoption and sentiment by role, size and region. Bottom-up sizing for an investment case. Willingness to pay by cohort.
- [For engineering leaders](https://www.slashdata.co/who-we-serve/engineering-leaders): Independent evidence on what AI tooling actually delivers. Tool benchmarks against your architecture and security checklists. Which roles to hire as AI changes coding.

## Latest free reports

- [Cloud Repatriation: Not the Story We've Been Told](https://www.slashdata.co/research/cloud-repatriation-not-the-story-weve-been-told): For organisations that made changes to their cloud infrastructure over the last year, 31% of developers moved services from on-premise to public cloud, compared to 28% and 24% who moved from public cloud to private cloud and on-premise infrastructure, respectively.
- [Progression of how developers engage with AI](https://www.slashdata.co/research/progression-of-how-developers-engage-with-ai): 88% of professional developers work with AI models, tools, APIs, or services.
- [AI in the Developer Workflow](https://www.slashdata.co/research/ai-in-the-developer-workflow): Code generation is the most common task developers report using AI for, with almost half (49%) of those using AI assistants doing so for this purpose.
- [CNCF Technology Radar Q1 2026](https://www.slashdata.co/research/cncf-technology-radar-q1-2026): The most common approach to internal platforms among respondents was having multiple teams collaboratively handle platform capabilities (41%).
- [State of Cloud Native Development Q1 2026](https://www.slashdata.co/research/state-of-cloud-native-development-q1-2026): There were 19.9M cloud native developers globally in Q1 2026, roughly 39% of the entire global developer population.
- [All reports](https://www.slashdata.co/research/all)

## Latest posts

- [Agent autonomy has a pricing problem](https://www.slashdata.co/blog/agent-autonomy-pricing-problem)
- [AI coding ROI: 62% of senior developers save time, against 42% of juniors](https://www.slashdata.co/blog/ai-developer-tools-roi-experience)
- [Introducing SlashData Intelligence for Software Engineering Leaders: recurring research for engineering decisions](https://www.slashdata.co/blog/slashdata-intelligence-engineering-leaders)
- [Open models lead developer adoption at 79%, but trail closed models in production rates by 12 percentage points](https://www.slashdata.co/blog/open-models-production-gap)
- [The Rise of the Builder - and Other Developer Trends We're Measuring in Q3 2026](https://www.slashdata.co/blog/rise-of-the-builder-developer-trends-q3-2026)
- [All posts](https://www.slashdata.co/blog)

## Using our data

- Cite SlashData as the source, name the report and its wave, and keep the base size with the figure. Every published chart carries its own base.
- Figures from different waves are not interchangeable; the survey wave is part of the number.
- [Contact](https://www.slashdata.co/contact): press, licensing and custom research questions.
- [Book a call](https://www.slashdata.co/book-call): a call with an analyst, at a time you pick.

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