The 2024 edition of the TokyoDev Developer Survey is now live! If you’re a software developer living in Japan, please help us by taking it. All questions are optional, and we expect it to take less than 10 minutes to complete. The survey will be open until September 30th.
Last year, we had over 700 responses, and we saw some indicators that the tech market in Japan was becoming more challenging. Median compensation was down, the number of respondents actively looking for jobs was up, and fewer respondents had the option to work fully remotely. Help us understand if these trends have continued into 2024, or if things have stabilized.
One new feature of this year’s survey is that we’ve made it possible to take it in English or Japanese. Not all developers who move to Japan from abroad are comfortable with English, so this will make our survey more accessible to a wider audience.
Additionally, we’d love to better understand the experiences of Japanese developers working in international companies in Japan, to see how it is similar (or different) from their non-Japanese peers. We hope this will allow us to collect data from them, too.
The survey is anonymous, and we will only release aggregated data to avoid disclosing any personally identifiable information. The more responses we get, the more interesting and statistically meaningful insights we’ll be able to offer, so please help out by answering the survey and sharing it with your peers!