BlueOptima Global Benchmark Report Q4 2025

The BlueOptima Global Benchmark Report for Q4 2025 is here! Explore the latest trends shaping engineering productivity and code quality across industries and regions — powered by the world’s most comprehensive developer performance dataset.

Here’s a quick preview of this quarter’s highlights:

  • Stable Productivity: Global developer productivity overall plateaued at 1.77 BCE/day in Q4, a notable change from the previous upwards trajectory.
  • Quality Trends: Code maintainability continued its gradual easing, dipping from 92.58% to 92.34%.
  • Year-over-Year Growth: Productivity rose 7.78% compared to Q4 2024 (1.64→1.77 BCE/day), reflecting a continued, but less marked, increase in throughput.

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