The State of JavaScript 2019: Demographics

Demographics

This year's State of JavaScript was the survey's fourth edition, and it reached 21,717 respondents. It was interesting to see that despite few people identifying as pure back-end developers, our respondents still feel quite comfortable dealing with development on the server.

Participation by Country

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Which proportion of survey respondents came from each country.

Salary

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Yearly salary in USD.

Years of Experience

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How long you've been writing JavaScript.

Company Size

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Company size breakdown.

Source

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How participants found out about the survey (aggregation of self-reported answers and referrer tracking). State of JS indicates subscribers from our previous surveys, while Word of Mouth regroups sources such as Slack, friends, co-workers, etc.

Gender

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Respondents gender.

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Non-Binary/Third Gender

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Job Title

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How do you introduce yourself at parties?

CSS Proficiency

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How proficient are you at CSS?

None: Virtually no knowledge of CSS

Beginner: Using CSS frameworks and tweaking existing styles

Intermediate: Knowing specificity rules, being able to create layouts

Advanced: Mastering animations, interactions, transitions, etc.

Expert: Being able to style an entire front-end from scratch following a consistent methodology

Back-end Proficiency

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How proficient are you at back-end development?

None: Not able to handle any back-end work

Beginner: Able to set up all-in-one CMSs (WordPress, etc.) or static site generators (Jekyll, etc.)

Intermediate: Able to develop apps using pre-existing frameworks (Rails, Laravel, etc.)

Advanced: Setting up an entire back-end from scratch (Go, Node, etc.)

Expert: Able to handle complex multi-server or microservices architectures