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2025 Software Engineering Benchmarks Report

The 2025 Software Engineering Benchmarks Report is created from an analysis of 6+ million pull requests from 3,000+ organizations worldwide. Inside you’ll find: Inside you’ll find:
Tactical advice on how to improve your team’s Developer Productivity and DevEx
How elite teams are performing against the four DORA metrics
Data insights broken down by organization, team size, geography, and industry
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What's Inside?

Software Engineering Benchmarks By Org Size

2025 Benchmarks Breakdown

This year’s benchmarks include 20 metrics spanning the full SDLC – plus 7 all-new metrics. Discover industry benchmarks for:
DevEx: PR Maturity, Merge Time, PR Size, Coding Time, and more
DORA: Cycle Time, Deploy Frequency, Mean Time to Restore, and more
PM Hygiene: Issues Linked to Parents, In Progress Issues with Assignees, and more
Analysis PR Lifecycle Insights

Data Insights from 6.1mil PRs

Explore how software development has changed over the past year while also gaining strategic insights into the metrics and processes that are driving productivity improvement. This year’s insights focus on:
Code Quality
DORA Metrics
Pull Request Lifecycle
Predictable Project Delivery
Project Management Hygiene
Engineering Investment Benchmarks

Investment Benchmarks

With investment metrics, leaders can see what percentage of their team’s time and resources are going toward different initiatives. See investment benchmarks broken down by the following resource allocations:
New value
Feature enhancements
Developer experience
Keeping the lights on
Charts showing Bot-Generated PR Density by Vendor and Percentage of Untraceable Bot-created PRs

NEW Bot-Generated PR Research

Bot-generated pull requests are on the rise (13.3% of all PRs are bot-created today), and they are creating a unique impact on your SDLC. In this year’s report, you’ll discover insights like:
54% of bot PRs are deleted without action
96.18% of all bot-created PRs are not linked to a PM tool
12.27 days is the average vulnerability time for bot-created PRs

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