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Evans Data Panel - Profile

When conducting demand-side primary research it becomes important to recruit the participants (or samples) from sources that are as unbiased as possible. During the years that EDC has been recruiting developers to participate in surveys this ideal has continuously been foremost in our efforts. Consequently, though we have used over 100 different individual sources for recruiting, the following principles are strictly adhered to and consistently applied:

  • No vendor lists have ever been used in EDC subscription surveys and none have ever been added to the panel

  • No platform-specific lists have ever been used in any EDC general subscription surveys and none have ever been added to the general panel

  • No language-specific lists have ever been used in any EDC subscriptions surveys and none have ever been added to the panel

In this way we provide the most eclectic and unbiased sample available anywhere. With thousands of developers chosen in a deliberately unbiased way from a wide variety of neutral lists, our data truly provides in-depth looks at representative samples of the developer population.

The EDC panel of developers includes about 20,000 professional developers in over 70 countries. The following presents a profile of those developers.

Job Titles
40% - Programmers/ software developers
30% - Software architects, systems analysts, project or product managers
25% - CIOs, CTOs, MIS Management
5% - Other

Market Segment
40% - Corporate end-users
30% - Systems integrators, VARs, consultants
25% - ISVs
5% - OEMs, other

Purchasing Involvement
80% Identify needs and make recommendations
50% Requisition specific tools and components
40% Approve/authorize expenditures

Types of Purchases Made or Approved
90% - Development Tools
65% - Office software
55% - App servers
50% - Web servers

Geography
45% - North America
25% - EMEA
25% - APAC
5% - Latin America

Experience
80% have been programming 5 years or more Average number of years experience = 16

Education
95% have attended college
66% have advanced technical degrees.

Types of Development
56% - work on databases
48% - work on web apps
47% - work on client/server apps
40% - have written a Linux app
40% - use Java
27% - use C#

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