11TH ANNUAL SURVEY REPORT

State of DevRel
Report 2024

ADMINISTERED BY

The People

The majority of People of Developer Relations are mature with experience, and tend to have individual contributor roles. Their roles and titles are varied.

Age Groups Over Time

In line with recent years, the rate of respondents over 35 years old (63.3%) is higher than those under 35 years (36.7%).

DEMOGRAPHICS

THE PEOPLE /

EXPERIENCE

THE PEOPLE /

MOST RECENT DEVREL JOB TITLES

THE PEOPLE /

Role Levels

THE PEOPLE /

Technical Education

DO YOU HAVE FORMAL TECHNICAL EDUCATION RELATED TO TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, DATA SCIENCE, OR COMPUTER SCIENCE?

Q11.

Most respondents (76.1%) have some form of technical education or training.

Of those, 65.4% have a technical degree from a higher education institution, up from 60.8% last year. Over a quarter (26.1%) of those with technical degrees also have technical certifications, and 9.6% have coding boot camp experience.

Overall, 25.2% have technical certifications, up from 8.8% in 2023.

Similarly, 14.2% had coding boot camp experience, an increase of 7.2% from last year.

23.9% indicated having no formal technical education.

Learning Resources

WHICH RESOURCES HAVE BEEN THE MOST EFFECTIVE IN SUPPORTING YOUR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN DEVELOPER RELATIONS?

Q12.

There are many informal sources of learning for DevRel.

On the job remains the largest source of learning (50.2%) but is down from 86.6%.

Blogs decreased from 51.4% to 34%, while colleagues, a new entrant this year, secured a spot in the top 5 with 32.4%.

Both social media (16.2%) and online DevRel communities (28.9%) decreased approximately 10% each.

Job Activities

WHICH OF THESE ACTIVITIES DO YOU SPEND THE MOST TIME ON AT YOUR MORE RECENT DEVREL ROLE?

Q13.

As with last year, content development was the top job activity for DevRel professionals in 2024, with 50.3% responding that content development related to education and 43.5% responding that content development related to technical documentation was the top activity at their job.

Similar to 2022 and 2023, advocacy was a top 3 activity, with 43.2% identifying it as one of the primary activities in their role.

Sales support is the lowest at 4.2%. Events - public speaking held steady at 40.3%, while all other events declined this year, including attending, booth duty, and sponsoring.

Social media declined from 16.7% to 12.3%, while developer experience held steady in 7th place.

Underrepresented Communities

DO YOU BELONG TO ANY OF THESE UNDERREPRESENTED COMMUNITIES?

Q5.

BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) respondents increased up from 7.9% to 16.1%, while LGBTQ+ respondents increased to 17.1% from 9.5%.

The rate of neurodivergent respondents held similar at 22.3%, while 7.7% indicated being a person with a disability.

Top Activity by Role Level

Entry-level Individual Contributors spend the most time on content development for marketing, whereas Mid-level ICs focus on educational content development, which could be delivered via video, workshops, tutorials, and webinars.

Principal-ICs spend the most time on public speaking at events (60.5%).

Strategy and planning, managing programs or teams, and content development are where most time is spent at higher levels, including Managers, Directors, VPs, and C-level.

Remote Work

Do you currently work remotely?

Q14.

78% of respondents indicated that they work fully remotely.

11% are required to work part of the time in their company office, while 10% are not required but voluntarily work out of the office part of the time.

Only 1% indicated that they do not work remotely.

Annual Base Salary (USD)

WHAT IS YOUR MOST CURRENT ANNUAL BASE SALARY IN USD BEFORE TAXES, EXCLUDING BONUSES, STOCK OPTIONS, RSUs, AND OTHER FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS OR PERKS?

Q9.

$150,000 is the median base salary, and $156,157 is the mean base salary. Base salaries ranged from $8.4K to $596K, a wider range than last year.
Compared to 2023, median base salary decreased from $175,000 (-14.3%) and average base salary decreased from $167,088 (-7.0%).
Mean salary being higher than the median implies a right skew, i.e., most salaries are closer to the median, but a few high salaries are pulling the average up.

Base Salaries by Role Level

Director is the only role level that saw average base salary slightly up year-over-year to $202,627 compared to $200,326 last year.

Every other level saw an average base salary drop, with the most drastic dip for Entry Level - IC, with an average of $51,400, down from $104,444 in 2023.

People, Companies, and Base Salaries

Respondents were from 33 countries, highlighting DevRel's global presence.

53.5% of respondents and 68.4% of company headquarters are in the US, similar to 2023.

Those who live in Silicon Valley / Bay Area are down to 6.5% from 10.6%, and companies headquartered there are also down to 28.3% from 35.4%.

Respondents who live in the UK are up to 14.5% from 6.7% last year, but with only 4.9% of company headquarters.

Silicon Valley has the highest mean base salary ($211,701).

Salaries

& Compensation

Developer Relations is a comprehensive and cross-functional role, and we see that DevRel professionals are mostly being compensated for the skillset required and seniority of roles.

Annual Total Compensation (USD)

Total compensation (including base salary and additional compensation) ranged from $10K to $845K.
$193,437.50 is the median total compensation and $213,907.50 is the mean total compensation.
Median total compensation is down slightly from $200k in 2023 (-3.3%), while mean total compensation is down from $225K (-4.9%).
Annual Total Compensation includes Annual Base Salary (Q9) plus Additional Compensation (Q10).

Additional Compensation

WHAT IS YOUR MOST CURRENT ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION PACKAGE IN USD BEFORE TAXES? (I.E.: ONLY THE VALUE OF YOUR BONUSES, STOCK OPTIONS, RSUS, AND OTHER FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS OR PERKS)?

Q10.

$58,656 is the average value of additional compensation, including bonuses, RSUs, and perks, representing a 37.5% addition to the mean base salary.
$20,000 is the median value of additional compensation, including bonuses, RSUs, and perks, a 13.3% addition to the median base salary.
Average additional compensation is nearly 3x the median, indicating most respondents do not earn a significant bonus and that outliers increase the average.
25.2% of respondents reported receiving no additional compensation, and 32% received under $5,000 in additional compensation.

Total Compensation Over Time

Average total compensation (including base salary and additional compensation) dropped to $213,907 in 2024 from $225,094 in 2023, breaking a 3-year uptrend with a 4.9% decline.

Note:
All amounts are in USD.
2018-2020 data represent the median of the most frequently chosen salary ranges.

SALARIES & COMPENSATION

Company Size

Approximately, how many full-time employees work for your company or organization in your most recent devrel role?

Q17.

The percentage of respondents from small companies (under 201 employees) stayed steady at 49.5%.

Those from large companies (1001+ employees) increased slightly from 31.1% last year to 31.9% this year.

Medium companies (201-1000) increased from last year, at 17.3% compared to 15.8%.

Industries & Business Models

which of these verticals best represents your company or organization?

Q20.

SaaS (37.7%) and Developer Tools (33.1%) remain the leading industries and business models.

Cloud Infrastructure (21.6%) knocked IT / Services (21%) out of the top 3 this year, though they are virtually tied.

A new category, Artificial Intelligence, is 5th with 16.4%. This will be insightful to track over time.

The top 5 industries show that DevRel companies are mainly in technical verticals.

Company Type - Developer Focus

what type of devrel ORGANIZATION is your company?

Q21.

At 48%, there are fewer Developer First companies than in 2023, down from 61.9%.

Correspondingly, the rate of Developer Plus organizations is up to 52% from 38.1%.

Agencies and Other have been excluded from this chart.

Developer First (Dev 1st)

A company's primary customers are developers, in a Developer-Led Growth Strategy or B2D.

All companies can practice a Developer-First strategy if developers are their primary user and customer focus.

Developer Plus (Dev+)

A company's primary customers are a B2B or B2C motion, but also have products for developers as a secondary strategy.

THE COMPANIES

The Companies of

Developer Relations

Companies of all sizes practice B2D or Business to Developer, in a variety of industries.

More Than One Team

DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HAVE MORE than one team working on devrel activities?

Q22.

43.6% of respondents indicated they have more than one team providing DevRel activities, up from 33% last year.

Internal vs. External Support

Which type of developers does your developer program support?

Q23.

Almost half of the respondents exclusively support external developers (49.6%). Of those, in addition to supporting customers or users (90%), 61.6% supported external ISVs, partners, or integrators, a new option this year.

Similar to last year, a small minority exclusively support internal developers (5.8%), which may include internal users or development teams.

44.6% of respondents support both internal and external developers, up from 29% last year.

Reporting Structure

Which department(s) does your devrel team formally report to?

Q24.

Almost a third of respondents indicated that their team reports to Marketing (33.1%), which continues to be the leading department year after year.

As in 2023, Product (21.7%) came in 2nd place for most reported-to department.

CEO at 20.3%, rose from 14.1% to pass Engineering (19.9%) this year as a top 3 department. CEO has consistently grown over the five years from just 12% in 2020.

Those reporting to Sales (3.2%) are up from 1.8%.

Organizational Collaboration

How often do you collaborate with other TEAMS in your organization?

Q32.

A new question this year showed that DevRel is collaborative.

Respondents most often collaborate:

Weekly - with Product (39%), Engineering (39%), Marketing (35%), Support (27%), Customer Success (25%), Sales (23%), and C-level (20%)
Daily - with Marketing (35%), Product (30%), and Engineering (29%)
Never - with Revenue / Growth (18%) and DevOps (23%)

Around 85% of respondents collaborate with Product, Marketing, and Engineering at least once a month.

Program Age

How many years has your organization had a developer relations function?

Q25.

DevRel programs that are less than 1 year old have dropped to 12.5% from 17.3%, while those that are 1 - 2 years old declined to 19.9% from 28%.

Over a third are 3 - 5 years old (33.5%), up from 25%.

10% of programs are over 10 years old, up from 8%.

6.1% are not sure, as opposed to 2.4% last year.

Even though an organization may not have a formal DevRel program, for this report, we have considered any DevRel function part of a Program.

Program / Team Size

How many people are in your organiazation's DevRel team including full-time and contract roles?

Q26.

Many DevRel teams are small, with 2 - 5 people remaining the most frequent team size at 35.2%, down from 39.3% in 2023.

Those who work alone in 1-person teams dropped to 18.2% from 22%.

69% of teams have less than 10 people, down from 74.4% last year, indicating a growing team size.

Teams with over 100 people are up from 3% to 4.6%, also indicating larger team sizes.

Program / Team Functions

Which of these functions are represented on your organization's devrel team(s)?

Q27.

Leading a new question this year, Developer Advocacy (82.2%) is the most featured function on programs or teams.

Community Management (52.7%) and Technical Writing (42.7%) ranked in the top 3.

Over a third of teams feature Developer Marketing (37.7%) and Developer Education (35.6%), while 27.4% have a Developer Experience Engineering function.

Integration Engineering is the least common function at 6.8%.

DevRel functions aren't necessarily reflected in job titles. For example, technical writing at 42.7% represents only 4% of current job titles.

Program - Headcounts

In the next 12 months, do you expect your developer program headcount to:
- Grow
- Shrink
- Remain the same
- N/A

Q29.

Respondents stayed steady in their expectation for headcount growth in the next 12 months (37%) compared to 2023.

More respondents expect their program headcount to shrink (12%) than last year (7%).

35% believe that headcount will remain the same, as opposed to 39% last year, signaling an increasing expectation of volatility.

A drop in optimism around hiring and retention persists, since the 9th Survey in 2022, when 64.7% expected headcounts to grow.

Career Path

Is there a defined career path for devrel in your organization?

Q30.

61% of respondents indicate having no defined career path, up from 54% last year.

Recognition of DevRel's Value

To what level is the value of devrel communicated across your organization?

Q31.

In a new question this year, 62.3% of respondents indicated that the value of DevRel was communicated up to the Founders / C-level. There is room for growth, but it's an encouraging sign for recognition of the DevRel.

Over half indicated that the value of DevRel is communicated up to the Director / Team head level (56.2%), while just above a third of respondents chose Sales teams (33.1%).

Program Budget

What is the annual budget of Your developer program?

Q33.

Compared to 2023, programs with a budget under $100K dropped significantly to 16.7% from 36.7%, and budgets of $10K to $50K are now down to only 4.6% from 15.1%.

$101K to $500K is the most frequently known budget range across all company sizes and is up from 8.4% to 12.8%. Programs with a budget over $1M sit at 6.8%.

Over half (51.3%) have no set budget (17.8%) or are not sure (33.5%) about their budget, both up from 2023.

Program Budget - Staff Salaries

Does the annual budget of your Developer Program include staff salaries?

Q34.

A majority of programs exclude DevRel staff salaries from DevRel Program budgets (60%).

26% include staff salaries of all DevRel roles in their budgets.

A small minority (3%) have some roles in their budget, but others are in other departments across their organization.

Program Budget - Changes

over the past 12 months, did your devrel budget:
- Increase
- No change
- Decrease
- N/A

Q35.

An optimistic sign, fewer programs had their budgets reduced this year, and more saw budget increases.

29% of teams saw their budgets increase, up from 16% in 2023.

About 24% of teams saw their budgets decrease, down from 37%.

Similar to last year, almost a quarter saw no change (24%).

Program Budget - Allocation

Of your total budget, what % is allocated to each of the following categories?

Q36.

New question only presented to those who indicated knowing their budgets in Q33 (47 respondents)

The highest average budget allocation went to events (41.1%).

Staff salaries (30.9%) and content - production, creation (19.5%) rounded out the top 3 options for budget allocation.

Marketing / promotion / ads were the least allocated to, on average, at 13%.

Developer Relations programs exist in different forms and vary in their reporting structure. Many companies have more than more than one team delivering DevRel functions.

The Programs

of Developer Relations

Developer Community

How large is your developer community? (Use your definition/ measurement of community)

Q37.

Almost half (49.7%) have fewer than 10,000 developer community members.

Those with 25K - 100K (12.8%) increased from last year's 9%, while 100K - 500K (3%) dropped from 6% last year.

A breadth of developer community sizes persists, ranging from less than 100 (7.5%) to over 2 million (8.3%).

Who is a Community Member?

Who do you consider to be part of your developer community?

Q38.

Members on developer community channels like Stack Overflow and GitHub remain the largest cluster (75.9%) of those considered community members.

Customers (75.6%) increased to 66.9% for 2023, while advocates or champions (71.1%) overtook forum users (68.8%) for a top 3 spot.

Followers on social channels such as X/Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube, rose to 46.6% from 40.4%.

Defining Active Developer Community

How do you define 'active' community members? choose your top 3

Q39.

Product usage (36.2%) jumped from 5th place in 2023 to 1st this year.

Action taken in a repository (29.4%) lost the lead this year but is still an important marker of an active community.

Content creation including blogs and videos (29.4%), event attendance - online (26.4%), and community tool metrics (25.7%) rounded out the top 5.

Knowledge sharing on Reddit / Stack Overflow (18.1%) dropped from 2nd to 9th.

Comparison by Company Size

Small (<201 employees) companies are mainly in the Developer Tools vertical and report directly to the CEO. They saw higher rates of layoffs.

Medium (201 - 1000) and Large (1001+) companies frequently belong to SaaS and mainly report to Product and Marketing, respectively.

Medium companies hired more in the past year and had budget increases.

The larger the company, the more likely it was to be headquartered in Silicon Valley, and the more likely it experienced a reorganization.

THE PROGRAMS

Program - Hiring & Layoffs

Over the past year did your dEvrel team:
- LosE members due to layoffs
- losE members due to voluntary departures
- Hire more team members
- Experience a reorganization
- Other
- N/A

Q28.

More programs hired team members (27%) than lost members (18.1%) due to layoffs. While a significant rate of programs experienced reorganizations (22.1%), a new option this year.

6% lost members due to voluntary departures, our first time tracking this metric. 3.2% left comments saying their program experienced all of the above.

Purpose of Developer Program

What is the main purpose of your developer program?

Q40.

Drive awareness and adoption of our products/services (66.1%) retains the top spot as the main purpose for most developer programs.

Build and nurture a developer community (51%), a new choice, pushed providing education and support for developers (42%) down to 3rd place.

Find new channels to market (2.4%) drops from 7th to last place this year, while reducing churn rate and risk (8.2%) rose to 8th place.

As DevRel programs mature, attaching to their company's sales in some way, becomes an accepted imperative.

Program Success - Metrics

How do you measure the overall success of your program?

Q41.

Active users remain the top metric of Program Success at 44.3%.

Content engagement retains 2nd at 37.8%. Newsletter signups fell significantly to 3.7% from 11.8%.

Revenue influenced (17.5%), a new choice, makes it into the top 3 this year, tied with developer satisfaction (NPS).

Metrics attached to Revenue generated (6.5%) continues to be a challenge to meet.

Those that don't measure their program at 7.3% declined from 14.1% in 2022 and 9% in 2023.

Strategies, Activities, and Challenges - Top Challenges

WHAT ARE THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES FOR YOUR DEVELOPER program?

Q42.

Attracting new developers (32.5%) takes the top spot from continuous content creation - technical (27.6%) for developer program challenges.

Proving the business impact of DevRel (28.5%) jumped to 2nd place from 7th in 2023.

Insufficient budget (18.3%) is less prevalent than last year, dropping from 4th to 7th place, while limitations with products (23.6%) continues to be a top 5 challenge.

Top Outreach Tactics

Which of these tactics have been most effective for your marketing/ outreach to attract new developers? ToP 3.

Q43.

Content marketing, such as blog posts and case studies (54.5%), remains the most effective tactic for outreach to new developers.

Events - public speaking (29.3%) is the 2nd most effective outreach tactic, followed by events - organizing (27.6%). The top 3 remain steady from last year.

Social media (16.7%) decreased over five years from 35% in 2020 and 21.3% last year.

SEO/ PPC (4.9%) decreased from 10% in 2023.

Effective Online Channels - Developer Community

Which of these online channels have been the most effective in reaching and communicating with your developer community?

Q44.

LinkedIn (39.8%) is the new, most effective online channel for reaching the developer community, shooting up from 3rd place.

Branded developer portal (28.5%), a new option, was 2nd, and company website (26%) was 3rd.

YouTube (26%) pushed X/Twitter (23.2%) out of the top 5 and tied with GitHub (26%).

Some of the Other write-ins included DZone, Telegram, and Mastodon.

X/Twitter (23.2%) continued its steep decline since 2022, when it peaked at 65%, while Discord (18.3%) broke an uptrend from only 8% in 2020 to 22.6% in 2023.

Developer Experience (DX)

How often does your developer program conduct developer experience and friction audits to review the developer journey of your products and services?

Q45.

Regular developer experience and friction audits are key tools for understanding and addressing a developer community's pain points. Respondents were asked how actively their developer programs worked to review their developer experience.

Those who never conduct developer experience audits declined from 44.2% to 31.2%.

Monthly (6.5%) and annually (11.3%) are both up significantly from last year, while quarterly (16.2%) rates remain similar.

Overall, auditing developer experience is becoming more of a priority.

Documentation Resources

Most developer research points to documentation being the most significant factor for developers deciding to use a tool. On a scale of 1 to 5, does your company put enough resources into creating and maintaining your Documentation?

Q46.

Documentation is important and remains the top online resource that developers use, per Stack Overflow's 2024 Developer Survey.

Respondents who rated their company a 5 or excellent at putting enough resources into documentation increased to 23.1%, from 13.4% in 2023. 7.3% picked a rating of 1, lower than 8.5% last year.

Overall, 54% of responses are positive, 30% are neutral, and 16% are negative.

Tools used for Documentation

Which Tool(S) does your program use for its documentation?

Q47.

Markdown (27.5%), a new option for this question, took the top spot this year but aligns with last year's GitHub Pages / Jekyll (18.2%), which dropped to 2nd place from 26.3%.

Docusaurus (17.8%) rounded out the top 3, while Home-Grown (custom CMS) declined from 21.3% to 15.4%.

Other (15.4%) frequently included tools such as MKDocs, Astro and Starlight.

Overall, tool use for documentation remains varied, but we are seeing the growth of documentation-specific tools to make the process more efficient and effective than the legacy options.

SDKs and Libraries

Do you offer SDKS or libraries as part of your developer experience? if so, how are they built?

Q48.

A new question found that 47.4% of respondents use hand-crafted SDKs or libraries.

Open-source generators such as OpenAPI Generator follow in second with 21.9%.

12.2% don't offer SDKs and have no plans to offer them in the future, while 7.7% don't currently offer SDKs but are considering offering them in the future.

11.7% say that their community builds them.

Commercial SDK generators such as APIMatic and Fern have room to grow, picked by 6.1% of respondents.

SDKs - Languages and Frameworks

If you offer SDKs, how many languages or frameworks do you support?

Q49.

Those who offer SDKs most commonly support 4 to 6 frameworks or languages (32.1%), while a quarter support 7 or more (24.5%).

Over a third support 3 or fewer (37.1%), but only 9.4% support just 1 language or framework.

STRATEGIES

Strategies, Activities

and Challenges.

Developer Relations is about helping developers succeed with your product or service while supporting your company's goals. It's a role encompassing many activities and a balance that experiences many challenges.

AI Tool Use for Work - Purpose

In which of the following ways do you use AI in your work?

Q50.

A new question finds that 21.8% do not use AI in any part of their work. This will be an interesting trend to track over time.

Content generation, including text, audio transcription, and code, was the most popular use of AI, picked by 42% of respondents.

Enhancing code suggestions and completions was picked by 28.8% of respondents while automating documentation generation had 15.2% of responses.

Managing developer support with chatbots at 14.8% and analyzing developer community feedback at 14% follow closely behind as other uses of AI.

Generative AI Tools

Which specific generative AI tools do you currently use or plan to use in your DevRel work?

Q51.

ChatGPT by OpenAI (67.4%) takes the top spot, with most respondents saying they use it or plan to use it in their DevRel work.

GitHub Copilot (31.4%) follows in 2nd place, used by less than half as many respondents as ChatGPT.

Dall-E (OpenAI) ranks much higher at 16.5% than Midjourney (5.8%) or Stable Diffusion (3.7%).

Anthropic Claude (3.3%) and Kapa.ai were the most popular tools offered in Other.

Generative AI Tools - Challenges

What are the biggest challenges in selecting and getting approval to use generative AI tools for your developer program?

Q52.

Ensuring accuracy of output is the biggest challenge with AI tools, picked by 37.8%. This response is in line with Stack Overflow's finding that 31% of developers are skeptical about the accuracy of AI tools.

Addressing security concerns (30.7%) isn't far behind, while assessing tool effectiveness (21.6%) and ensuring data security (21.2%) are neck and neck in the top 5 challenges.

Availability of, and receiving support and training, were the least significant challenges at under 5% each.

AI and DevRel

Like most areas, AI is weaving its way into Developer Relations.

Challenges for DevRel

What do you believe are the biggest challenges for the practice OF Developer Relations?

Q53.

Proving impact with data and metrics (60.7%) remained the top challenge for Developer Relations.

Awareness of its impact retains the second spot, with 50% responding that it is a top 3 challenge, down from 59% last year.

Burnout / mental health issues (37.6%) persist and round out the top 3 again.

Lack of career paths (32.2%) is a bigger challenge this year increasing two spots, in line with our finding that 61% feel there is no defined career path for DevRel in their organizations (Q30).

Recruiting people into the practice (4.5%) is the smallest of these challenges for DevRel.

How to Overcome DevRel's Challenges

WHAT DO yOU RECOMMEND TO OVERCOME THE CHALLENGES YOU IDENTIFIED?

Q54.

"Targeted education to Management and C-level about Developer Relations that provides a shared vocabulary and ideology around the impact of DevRel."

"Codified best practices or tooling for producing data and metrics to argue for ROI / impact."

"An internal focus on awareness and partnering with other organizations like sales and marketing. Understanding the sales funnel and where DevRel ties into all other orgs within the company."

"...have pathways for DevRel at top tech companies."

"Data-driven DevRel with metrics that matter to stakeholders."

"Learning how to engage with your cross-functional stakeholders is key to the role's success...not talked about enough."

"Safe, shared spaces for people in the practice to discuss strategies and training. Working with management to define an actual career path."

"Build bigger teams to handle the load, stop conflating marketing with DevRel, make DevRel a C-level job."

"Provide templates & best practices for ROI & impact reporting for DevRel teams (just as there are for Sales, Marketing etc)."

"Creating and socializing a formal definition and description of the discipline."

"Clearly defining the role of DevRel, using precise measures and success stories to measure its worth. Share real-world developer testimonies, coordinate DevRel initiatives with corporate objectives..."

"Most important job a DevRel leader does is internal evangelism and aligning the team's work with the company's goals."

"Align your strategy with the company's bigger overall strategy."

"Laser-focus on talking about the impact of DevRel, rather than the typical focus on activities of DevRel."

Standardization and Professionalization of DevRel

How likely would you participate in a non-profit, open collaboration project created to standardize and professionalize the practice of DevRel?

Q55.

40% of respondents picked 5 (Count me in) as very likely to participate in a non-profit, open collaboration project created to standardize and professionalize the practice of DevRel.

9% of respondents indicated they would not be interested, with a rating of 1.

Overall, there is substantial support for a project to standardize DevRel, with an average likelihood of 3.75 / 5.

THE PRACTICE OF DEVREL

The Practice of DevRel

Developer Relations has been practiced for over 40 years, yet still struggles to prove its impact, and solidify the role.

OUR SPONSORS

HIGHLIGHTS 🥑

Survey Length

How did you feel about the length of this survey?

Q56.

Most respondents (67%) found the survey to be about the right length.

Considering this was our most extensive survey to date, it's a positive sign that only 33% of respondents who completed the survey felt the length was too long or much too long.

Survey Sentiment

Thanks to all the respondents who took the time to complete the survey, our most extensive to date.

Survey Difficulty

How easy or difficult was this survey to complete?

Q57.

Of those who did complete the survey, a majority (55%) of respondents found the survey easy, or very easy to complete, while another 39% felt neutral, similar to last year.

Only 6% thought the survey was difficulty or very difficult to complete, a low number for an in-depth survey.