There are tons of articles about the number of developers in the world. But most of them either lack good methodology or simply borrow statistics from other resources. Here's what I did differently. I counted a real number of developers according to the preferred language in European countries and the US based on LinkedIn data. Why did I do that? Not for fun, for sure. I wanted to understand which country — the US, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, or Ukraine locates the biggest number of , , , , and developers. JavaScript Java Python Ruby on Rails PHP As a result, I found out that: The US has the biggest number of developers specializing in Java — , JS — , Python — , and Ruby on Rails — . 63K 12K 10K 3K Among other countries, Ukraine has the biggest share of PHP programmers — . Ukraine follows the US in several other technologies: the country has Python engineers and JavaScript developers. 9K 3K 8K The UK follows the US and Ukraine closely by the majority of technologies. There are Java developers, JS and PHP engineers, and Python software programmers in the UK. 14K 5K 2K The numbers of developers in the Netherlands and Germany coincide in many technologies. For example, there are around Java and JS developers in both countries. 6K 3K Apart from researching the numbers of developers in the US, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, and Ukraine, I've also decided to dig into the distribution of developers by seniority levels. PHP developers: number and distribution by seniority Ukraine has PHP programmers, the US follows with , the UK goes next with nearly PHP developers. Germany and the Netherlands close the list with and almost PHP developers correspondingly. 9K 7K 5K 2K+ 3K Java developers: number and distribution by seniority The US has the biggest number of Java developers — there are professionals. The UK — , Ukraine — Java programmers, while Germany and the Netherlands go behind with Java engineers each. 63K 14K 8K 6K Python developers: number and distribution by seniority The US has more than Python developers, Ukraine follows with , the UK has , while Germany and the Netherlands are behind with around Python developers in each country. 10K 3K 2K+ 1K JavaScript developers: number and distribution by seniority There are almost JS developers in the US, in Ukraine, in the UK, in Germany and the Netherlands. 12K 8K 5K 3K Ruby on Rails developers: number and distribution by seniority There are Ruby on Rails developers in the US, in Ukraine, in the UK, in Germany, around in the Netherlands. 3K 1K 700 600+ 300 Conclusion The research helped me to make three valuable conclusions: The larger population doesn't always mean a bigger number of developers — . Ukraine has more PHP developers than the US Countries with divergent population sizes can have similar numbers of programmers — by the majority of technologies . Germany (84M population) and the Netherlands (17M population) have similar numbers of programmers if compared to other countries. Ukraine has an even distribution of developers by the seniority levels Previously published here .

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