CF Population size
Posted by Matt at 3:49 PM Coldfusion
When you hear of things like "800,000 developers use coldfusion" do you ever think something like "hmmmm, I think there is 7.8million!" or "really?.......".
I once worked out the average number of CF Devs I've come across per company during my career is 8 Devs per company, some companies had 2, some had 25, but when I worked out the average it was 8.
If this was the normal average then I'd say we would have 100,000 employers out there on average advertising a couple of jobs a year, so we'd see around 250,000 job ads a year for coldfusion.
Having lived in both Australia and Europe I would estimate the total number of CF employers on both continents would be less than 1,000 (excluding sole traders).
Maybe there is 89,000 employers in the America's and say 10,000 in Asia.
I do not believe for a minute that 800,000 Coldfusion developers exist.
How many are in the world? I have no idea, but hopefully if everyone passes the below link around we'll get a better understanding.
I just found this link http://bit.ly/CFDevPop
On www.adrocknaphobia.com
As for my stats above, I got the 800,000 from Adobe, who I believe got it from a 3rd party, my estimates on 100,000 employers etc is just to get people thinking.
On average how many CF Devs have you worked with per company? and how many do you estimate exist in the world?
ryan tj wrote on 07/01/10 5:50 AM
My previous company had about 10 but now days are mostly dotnet and java. A famous medical institution in the midwest at one time had hundreds of CF developers. However the direction is now DotNet. My team currently has 6 full time and 6 contractors CF developers but we are moving to dotnet over the next 3 to 5 years.