In December we launched the 3rd ever Stack Overflow Annual User Survey to measure changes in user demographics and trends from last year.  First, a big thank you to everyone who participated, and now on to the results!

Demographics Let’s start off with some basic demographics: the majority (50.3%) of users are between ages 25-34 and very experienced (64.3% of users have 6+ years of programming experience). So, where do all of these developers work?  The percentage of developers working at a start-up remained strong with 30.7% of respondents.  We then took a look at salary by company size, and, not surprisingly, users who work at larger companies tend to make more money. …