Poll of the StackOverflow has identified the most profitable and most popular IT-technology

Known resource for programmers and other representatives of the IT-professions StackOverflow conducted surveys on the usefulness, value and profitability of programming languages. The results are shown in detailed report «Developer 2015". I'll try to focus on the most interesting statistics.

Population h4> As the number of people who participated in the survey, leading US and European countries. At the same time, as you know, most people live in China and India.





The largest number of developers per capita in Luxembourg, Iceland, Sweden, Israel and Finland. Least of all - Somalia, Chad, North Korea (of the three countries in general no one participated in the survey), the Congo and Southern Sudan.

The predominant age of the IT specialist - 25-29. In this case, the average age of the biggest developer - the residents of the US, UK and Canada. Russia in this list - the 7th place between Poland and India, with an index of 26.6 years.

More than 92% of the developers (average) - men. The highest percentage of women among IT specialists is observed in India - 15.1%

Technology h4> The most popular technology - JavaScript. It is followed by SQL and Java, then C #, PHP and Python.



The most anticipated technology, on which the respondents would like to program in the near future, become Swift, C ++ 11, Rust and Go. Most disgusting were found Salesforce, Visual Basic, WordPress (7 th place - Perl).

The most popular operating systems that developers use to remain system from Microsoft. In the first place - Windows 7.



Program developers prefer to write in the editors NotePad ++, Sublime Text and Vim.



The most popular version control system - Git.



Earnings h4> In the US, the most highly paid professionals - developers Objective-C, Node.js and C #. In Western Europe, the three leaders - Ruby, C # and Node.js, and in Eastern Europe - Node.js, C # and Python.



Among the emerging new technologies the most profitable - Cassandra, Spark and F #.



However, in absolute terms wages is difficult to judge, because different countries can cost the consumer basket in different ways. As a common denominator was chosen "Big Mac Index", ie how many Big Macs developer can buy on one salary. Big Mac index-jokingly poluserёzno used by many economists - the cost of this product is based on a very large number of indicators of the country, and can serve as a benchmark for comparison. First place in the average salaries occupied Ukraine, South Africa, USA, Australia and Russia.



Job satisfaction h4> According to the survey, are generally satisfied with their work 76% of the people. In this table the average index of satisfaction, a divided by country, the first places were Iran, the Netherlands and Norway.





Source: geektimes.ru/post/249356/