How about them IT-Nation Germany and where do most programmers work? In a nationwide study, Stack Overflow examined the numbers, data and facts of the developer landscape in Germany, taking a close look at the metropolitan regions of Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Stuttgart/Karlsruhe and Rhine-Ruhr. The result shows: Germany is very different thanks to its Developer.

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The developer report on the German ecosystem

Stack Overflow is one of the most widely used resources in the IT scene. Almost every developer worldwide uses Stack Overflow. From the resulting traffic can draw conclusions on the changes in the global and national developer scene.

In this case, it's about the developers in Germany, of which there are now almost 823.000. Based on the findings of the annual survey, it can be deduced:

The number of developers is rising (on and on)

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In Germany around the time of the survey in November about 823.000 professional software developers are working. At the same time good news: Compared to the survey in the previous year, this is an increase of over 114.000. They are surprisingly well distributed throughout the republic: Only 11 percent of them work in Berlin.

Compared to the largest cities in other European countries, this is a relatively low concentration - in London, with 25 percent more than twice as many, in Paris even 36 percent. Berlin is surpassed only by the entire Rhine-Ruhr region with almost 13 percent. In third place is Munich with just 83.000 developers and 10 percent, in places four to six follow Frankfurt, Stuttgart-Karlsruhe and Hamburg. If you want to go into more detail, you should download the report.

Machine learning and data science in vogue

Within these regions, one group is numerically well ahead: web developers. With over 520.000 workers, they overtake all other types of developers many times over. In particular, the most common profiles include full-stack web developers with 59,2%. followed by backend web developers with 13,07% and system administrators with 12 percent. The database administrators come in fourth with 4 percent.

One fact shows the current developments in the IT market in a particularly impressive way: The clear The younger disciplines of machine learning and data science are now on par with desktop developers.

Regional differences show what cities are working on.

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Web developers also dominate the job description in the respective metropolitan regions, but there are differences: In the Startupsscene in Berlin has an above-average number of mobile developers, as well as in Frankfurt.

The south of Germany, with Munich and Stuttgart, has the proximity to automobile and Technology-Corporations an increased number of embedded developers. The Rhine-Ruhr area offers a mix of all disciplines.

Differences in programming languages

The disciplines also include the various programming languages: while Java and Python continue to be the two most widely used technologies among German developers, there are differences in tech ecosystems. In Munich, the IT experts work mainly with Python, which is used in data science and machine learning.

On the Rhine, PHP is strongly represented in the national comparison, since flexible web developments for e-commerce and the Web are made here.

On the Rhine or rather in the capital?

The federal capital captivates with its use of Python, Node.JS and Ruby-on-Rails, as these technologies are especially popular with start-ups, whereas .Net in Stuttgart-Karlsruhe is among the top three of the programming languages.

With more than ten percent of all page views on Stack Overflow, Python has the Java language as the most searched Technology already obsolete. The second fastest growing technology is the R programming language, which is also used in machine learning and data science.


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