2010 Technology Community Survey

This survey was coordinated in May 2010 by Audrey Eschright and Eva Schweber. Silicon Florist covered the reasons for the survey here.

Some results:

667 people responded.

Median year of birth: 1956 (mean: 1972)

By gender:

• 85% male
• 12.3% female

(not all respondents answered)

77.5% were raised outside the Portland metro area.

67.5% currently live inside Portland city limits. 32.5% reported they do not.

Median personal income: $75,000 (mean: $79,758.35)

252 respondents listed their job role as including programming, software development, or a similar title. 68 were company owners, founders, or executives.

Company size breakdown:

• 17.6% sole proprietor
• 13.2% <5 employees
• 12.5% 5-15 employees
• 6.7% 16-25 employees
• 13.7% 25-100 employees
• 36.3% 100+ employees

By sector:

• 88.1% private companies
• 9.2% nonprofits
• 9% government

Technologies used:

Name	% response
Objective C	14.3%
C/C++	27.3%
HTML/CSS	73.8%
.NET	27.3%
.ASP	12.7%
Java	29.2%
PHP	33.9%
Ruby	26.4%
Python	26.6%
Perl	18.5%
Drupal	11.7%
Javascript	64.0%
Other	30.8%

Other responses (in no particular order): SQL, Django, search engines, SQL Server, NHibernate, ArcGIS, Assembler, OWL, RDF, Sharepoint, C#, T-SQL, Flash, Silverlight, Adobe Flex/FlashBuilder, Excel VBA, Visual Foxpro, Delphi, Wordpress, Sitecore, Apache, ColdFusion, Linux, VB6, PostgreSQL, Crystal Reports, IIS, MVC, WCF, WF, WPF, Restfull WS, ESB, ActionScript, Rails, Zope, Scala, Stata, SAS, R, XML, PL/SQL, Powershell, Haskell, XSLT, MATLAB, JSP, Oracle, whiteboards, Photoshop, OmniGraffle, Common Lisp, Scheme, Joomla, Screenflow, Final Cut Pro, Sound Track Pro, MySQL, HLSL, Lua, Verilog, bash, Forth, assembly language, tcl/expect, Apache, Arduino, Google Web Toolkit, Coq, Isabelle, ExpressionEngine, DB2, WebSphere, jQuery, Flash, Clojure, Prolog, Apex/visualforce, UX, IxD, 3rd party APIs, concrete5, Clearspace, ARM assembly, MediaWiki, Thunderbird, Firefox, Grails, Tcl/tk, Eclipse, ArcMap, Erdas Imagine, Powerbuilder, DataFlex, Erlang, ocaml, hadoop, Agda, Smalltalk Fortress, LAMP, Pylons, GURU, Omega, Pascal, Prolog, Tapestry, sketchflow, Basalmiq, Torah

General technology areas:

Type	% response
Mobile	34.7%
Web	76.7%
Hardware	16.1%
Software	76.3%
Open Source	53.8%
Proprietary Software	51.7%
Geolocation	13.8%
Other	7.9%