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How many software developers does the average Enterprise business employ in the United States, in the United Kingdom, in Europe and in Asia?
Hello! Thank you for your inquiry about how many software developers the average enterprise business employs in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, and Asia. After searching academic and government databases, as well as industry reports, the most useful sources to answer your question were BLS statistics of software data employees in the US and OECD data depicting the number of enterprise businesses. The short answer is although we did not find an average number of software developers employed by enterprise businesses specifically, we were able to garner a total number of enterprise businesses, plus general labor statistics for software developers. Please find a deep dive of our findings below.
OVERVIEW
OECD data reflects the following information regarding the total number of enterprise businesses in 2015: United States, 340,300; United Kingdom, 125,967; and Japan, 434,130.
USA
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reports that there are: 271,200 computer programmers; 794,000 applications software developers; and 409,820 systems software developers in the US. Statista predicts that their 2010 statistic of just over 520,000 US application developers will rise beyond 664,000 by 2020; they predict similar growth in the software development industry.
UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPE
Statista reports that there were 274,000 "programmers and software development professionals" employed in the United Kingdom in 2014.
SoftwareImpact.bsa.org estimates 3.1 million employees in the European Union have jobs related to software development, accounting for 1.4% of total jobs.
ASIA
Of an estimated 11 million global software developers, InfoQ.com reports just over 4 million (37%) reside in the Asia-Pacific region and approximately 3.3 million (30%) are in Europe, the Middle East, or Africa.
CONCLUSION
To wrap it up, labor statistics reflect the following data: There are over 1.1 million software-related employees in the US; nearly 275,000 in the UK; over 3.1 million in Europe; and approximately 4 million in the Asia-Pacific region. In addition, OECD data reflects the following information regarding the total number of enterprise businesses in 2015: United States, 340,300; United Kingdom, 125,967; and Japan, 434,130. Thank you for using Wonder! Please let us know if we can help you answer anything else.