Introducing 2025 DX benchmarks
Access seven new benchmark segments, tailored to your industry, job function, and organization size.
Industry benchmarks are essential for contextualizing metrics and understanding performance in engineering organizations. At DX, we’ve assembled the world’s largest body of engineering benchmark data, consisting of millions of data points across sectors and geographies.
Starting today, DX customers can access new 2025 benchmarks featuring seven new role and industry-based segments, along with APAC-focused variants. These latest benchmarks enable granular comparisons that provide an accurate gauge of your organization’s performance.
New benchmark segments
We’ve heard customers repeatedly ask for more granular benchmark sets by industry and role. After all, mobile development requires a different set of tools and challenges than web development—making apples-to-apples comparisons crucial.
Consistent with our 2024 benchmarks, each new segment includes at least 30,000 individuals and/or 200 organizations, based on data from DX customers as well as research panel data.
Industry-specific benchmarks
We’ve introduced two new industry-specific benchmark sets based on customer demand:
FinTech - This segment includes over 150 financial technology companies, including payments processors, payments infrastructure, and tech-first banking and insurance providers.
Finserv - This segment includes over 50 banks, insurance providers, credit issuers, and other financial services companies. While the number of companies in this segment is smaller, the dataset includes over 120,000 individuals.
Role-specific benchmarks
New this year, we’ve published role-specific benchmarks for several R&D roles:
- Mobile engineers
- Data engineers
- Site Reliability Engineers (SRE)
- Front-end developers
- Java developers
These role-specific benchmarks account for the distinct characteristics and challenges of each role, enabling more useful comparisons. We plan to introduce even more role-specific benchmarks in the future—please share your feedback and requests with your DX account manager.
APAC-adjusted scoring
At DX, we’ve long observed systematically higher attitudinal survey scores in certain international regions, including India and APAC. This isn’t a phenomenon unique to DX: cross-cultural differences in Likert-scale responses are a relatively well-studied effect.
This dynamic poses challenges for organizations wanting to benchmark attitudinal performance measures. For example, an organization with 50% of its developer population in India will tend to see inflated scores compared to an organization with no India-based developers.
To account for these differences, DX now includes APAC-adjusted variants for every standard benchmark category. Customers can use these granular benchmark options for a much more accurate gauge of performance.
Key trends from 2024 to 2025
Our analysis reveals numerous changes across the over 80 different standardized measurements available in DX. Several notable shifts we saw in all benchmark segments:
- Change confidence saw significant gains across all segments, with the P50 increasing by 12+ points
- Ease of release and build processes showed improvements in multiple segments.
- Cross-team collaboration P50 decreased across all segments.
- Documentation P50 was down across all segments
- Customer focus P50 declined in almost all segments
These trends highlight areas where the industry as a whole is making progress, as well as common challenges that organizations are facing.
What’s next
The evolution of DX benchmarks continues with exciting developments on the horizon:
AI Workflow Benchmarks - Benchmarks will soon be available for the recently-launched workflow question set, which includes AI-driven time savings and AI-authored code metrics.
Direct Benchmarking™ - Coming soon, this feature will allow organizations to select specific peer companies and competitors they would like to compare against, providing the most accurate assessment of performance.
For more information on DX benchmarks can help you understand your organization’s engineering performance, contact your DX account manager or request a demo today.