Welcome to the Software Career Progression Survey!

Software Career Progression Survey aims to investigate software professionals’ perceptions of work and how they change over time. We are particularly interested why some software professionals change jobs every few years, while others are happy to stay in theirs?  We’re trying to find out by following some professionals’ career paths over several years.

If you join this study, we’ll share what we learn with you and, when we hit our recruiting goal we’ll donate $2000 to charities selected by participants. Anyone aged 18-65 who works in software development (e.g. as a programmer, tester, analyst, artist or manager) can participate in the study.

If you register:

🔸 We will send you one questionnaire per year. The first one takes 15-30 minutes and the following ones will be shorter. 

🔸 You are free to participate for as long or as you’d like. You can withdraw at any time, for any reason, without any obligation. If you don’t finish a yearly questionnaire, we will assume you’ve withdrawn and won’t contact you again. 

🔸We will never sell your data. Ever. For any reason.

Enroll in the Survey:

Choose the language in which you want to fill out the survey below.

Meet Our Team:

Miikka Kuutila – Postdoctoral researcher, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. Survey Design, Data Analysis, Translator: Finnish

Paul Ralph – Professor, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. Survey Design, Project Coordinator

Gianisa Adisaputri – Doctoral Student, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. Translator: Indonesian

Rana Alkadhi – Assistant Professor, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Translator: Arabic

Hera Arif – Doctoral Researcher, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. Translator: Urdu

Sebastian Baltes – Professor, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany. Translator: German

Shalini Chakraborty – Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany. Translator: Bengali

Morakot Choetkiertikul – Assistant Professor, Mahidol University, Salaya, Thailand. Translator: Thai.

Xavier Devroey – Assistant Professor, University of Namur, Namur, Belgium. Translator: French

Amin Fard – Associate Professor, New York Institute of Technology – Vancouver, Vancouver, Canada. Translator: Farsi

Lucas Gren – Assistant Professor, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. Translator: Swedish.

Hideaki Hata – Associate Professor, Shinshu University, Matsumoto, Japan. Translator: Japanese

Marcos Kalinowski – Professor, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Translator: Portuguese

Vladimir Kovalenko – Head of Research Lab – Jetbrains. Amsterdam. Translator: Russian.

Nicole Novielli – Associate Professor, University of Bari, Italy. Translator: Italian.

César Pardo – Professor, Universidad Del Cauca, Popayán, Colombia. Translator: Spanish – Latin America

Huilian Sophie Qiu – Assistant Professor, Northwestern, Evanston, Illinois, United States. Translator: Mandarin Chinese

Gregorio Robles – Professor, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain. Translator: Spanish.

Eray Tüzün – Assistant Professor, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. Translator: Turkish.