Report
2026 Software Engineering Benchmarks Report
Created from a study of 8.1+ M PRs from 4,800 engineering teams across 42 countries.
Use Case
Engineering Health
See who's absorbing the cost of your delivery speed
AI raised the volume of code arriving, but review capacity didn't grow to match it. LinearB's engineering health dashboard shows who's carrying the review load, how much context switching your delivery requires, and whether the work reaching review is actually ready for it.
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Reviewer Imbalance
See who absorbs your review volume
An average review count can look healthy while most of the reviewing sits with a handful of people. Reviewer imbalance shows how many more reviews your top 20% complete than everyone else, so you see load concentrating before it burns people out.
Context Switch Load
See how much parallel work your team is juggling
Context switch reports the average number of work items a developer handles at once, and multitask distribution groups developers by how many tickets each juggles on their busiest day, so you can see whether switching is spread across the team.
PR Readiness
Check whether the work reaching review is ready for it
PR readiness reports average PR maturity, how complete pull requests are when opened, trended weekly across maturity bands. A falling score means more of what arrives needs rewriting once a reviewer looks at it properly.
From 50% DORA health scores to 98% in less than 6 months. LinearB has given our business critical telemetry and attribution for our engineering teams. In the past 6 months the wins enabled by the tool include a 90% reduction in time to release, and cycle time reduced by 66%, from an average of 6 days to deliver value down to an average of 2 days now.
Matt Culver
Engineering Chief of Staff, Super.com
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