Recruiting IT experts: German developers prefer Süddeutschen SME

Every year more and more jobs for IT-professionals and Developer created. But how do they tick? And what do you think about artificial ones Intelligence, which programming languages ​​do you master and what does a typical German developer look like?

In the land of skeptical IT developers

If there is a property that is proper to Germans, then it must be skepticism. Regardless of whether it is about the new construction money of the grand coalition, whether electric cars provide the necessary range or whether it is about new, digital topics: Germans are always skeptical about changes.

This is also shown in a Germany report by Stack Overflow. Topics such as demography, everyday work, technologies and future trends were examined in the survey in order to draw an accurate picture of the developer community in Germany.

The German developer: young, male and im süddeutschen SME

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The basis of the whole were the 6.459 answers from German developers from a worldwide survey. What came out? The Germans are once again living up to their favorite quality in international comparison.

First of all, the average developer in Germany has hardly changed compared to previous years. The typical developer in Germany is still male, younger than 35 years and lives in Bavaria or Baden-Württemberg.

Doctor or diploma? How much does a title count?

Mostly he has a university degree in computer science or software engineering. As far as qualifications are concerned, German developers are ahead: 31 percent of those surveyed have a master’s degree, whereas internationally only 23,2 percent can trump the same degree.

Do Germans place more value on academic titles? Probably yes. They are also working increasingly at universities and more often have a doctorate (3,9 percent vs. 2,2 percent worldwide). Otherwise “traditional” professions such as system administrator or developer of desktop and business software are the rule in this country.

Differences in company size and salary

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When it comes to company size and salary there are clear differences: Around two thirds of those surveyed (67,3 percent) work in one Companys up to 499 employees and this also unusually often part-time - around 12 percent of them.

International colleagues are more likely to look for companies with more than 500 employees and almost always work full-time, namely 76,9 percent of them. Germany is still a country with many medium-sized companies that need developers to develop the digital Transformation to continue.

Top Salaries in Germany

In terms of salaries, Germany is doing very well: IT professionals generally earn more than the international average. DevOps and data scientists, for example, have 73.000 euros and 61.000 euros respectively. to the top earners. However, the wage gap for mobile developers is quite large in international comparison:

In Germany, her paycheck at the end of the month is around 59.000 Euro, whereas her colleagues abroad take on average only 43.000 US dollars.

Salary is a priority for developers

A possible reason for this is most likely the “War for Talents”, the struggle for capable developers and the correspondingly good job offers for them. There are too few IT professionals for all the projects that companies and industry want to carry out.

If developer on Job Search are has for Germans, as well as for the rest of the Welt salary top priority. However, this list also shows a difference: With shares and shares, you can't lure developers in Germany, whereas this means of persuasion is much more likely in the USA, for example Resonance meets.

Skeptical with future technologies: AI and machine learning are more worrisome for Germans

The Success and the gold rush mood of new technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning does not stop at Germany either: Developers in this country are also interested in the new possibilities and the Technology interested like everywhere else in the world. However, there are some major differences compared to the rest of the world: Germans are more cautious about chances and opportunities.

For example, the number of developers who said of AI “I'm more concerned with the dangers than excited by the possibilities” was 22 percent light over the international 19 percent. What worries German IT experts most is that “algorithms make important decisions”, namely 37,6 percent. On the other hand, 46 percent find the automation of professions through AI clear more exciting than in an international comparison (40,8 percent).

More regulation necessary?

Another important statement from the respondents is that, of course, the experts behind AI and Machine Learning are the first to be responsible for the result.

Nevertheless, many German developers also see state or other government agencies in the mandatory: They are supposed to regulate future technologies, which is in stark contrast to the rest of the world. So Germans want to research and work on future topics, but the father state should set the guidelines and guard rails.

German developer hearts beat faster with these technologies

The most widely used languages ​​in Germany include HTML (66,2 percent), followed closely by JavaScript (66,1 percent) and CSS (62,8 percent). Although developers earn their daily bread with these technologies, the most popular languages ​​are different again: Rust is by far the most popular language among all respondents, Kotlin follows in second place and Swift in third place.

Incidentally, Python is the fastest growing user base, which could mean that we are in Future will see a drop in wages. Because: For the second year in a row, it is the language that developers want to learn most often. Hack is definitely not on the to-learn list and at the bottom of the popularity scale: 100 percent of developers said they didn't like this language.

How do developers communicate?

When it comes to cooperation, the nature of Germans once again shows itself: The German developers prefer to communicate via Jira (51 percent) or Confluence (42,5 percent). This is in contrast to other nations that use Slack more frequently (37,3 percent vs. 52 percent worldwide).

Perhaps the skeptical attitude of the German “slow adopters” will once again be revealed here? The fact is that German developers are among the best-paid and highly competitive IT professionals. According to a study by BITKOM, more than 400.000 new jobs are created in the ICT sector every year. The big task for German companies in the future will be to drive forward smart projects with capable specialists and developers - even if there is a lack of developers on site.

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