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

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

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