What are O'Reilly's 2.8 million users working on,
and what are they learning day-to-day?
O’Reilly’s VP of content strategy Mike Loukides dives into the data to explore the technology and tools people are actually using
to turn the big ideas into real-world products—and predict
what’s in store in the future.
More members are learning more often
Total platform usage more than doubled the 6.2% gain we saw between 2020 and 2021.
The hottest topics
in 2022
O’Reilly members are solidly technical, more focused on software than on hardware, but with a significant stake in business topics.
Software development (31%), IT operations (18%), business (13%), security (8%), web and mobile (6%)
31%
18%
13%
8%
6%
Learning more
than just tech
Product development isn’t just about code; it relies heavily on communication, collaboration, and critical thinking.
So it’s no surprise our users are building their leadership and management skills.
Interest in coding practices skyrocketed
It seems software developers
are highly motivated to improve
their programming skills.
Go and Rust are gaining ground
Java and Python still top the
programming language charts,
but in a few more years, Go and
Rust may be challenging them.
Go (20% growth) and Rust (22% growth)
are overtaking Java/Python from behind.
Increased focus
on security
Computer security has only become
more difficult. So it’s good news that
O’Reilly members are focused on it.
Year-over-year growth of: Network security (32%), secure coding (40%), application security (46%), advanced persistent threats (55%), governance (72%), hardening systems (91%), and zero trust (146%).
32%
40%
46%
55%
72%
91%
146%
AI winter? Unlikely.
We’ve seen huge demand for content on natural language processing (42% growth) and deep learning (23% growth) as well as continued interest in tools like scikit-learn, PyTorch, and TensorFlow.
Heads are increasingly in the cloud
AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud are still
the “big three” cloud providers, but our
users are more focused on high-level
issues that will help them take their organizations all the way to the cloud.
Year-over-year growth
Thinking about design from the get-go
Proof that software teams are
considering design from the beginning.
[CEROS OBJECT]Year-over-year growth: user research (5%),
user experience (18%), interaction design (36%),
interface design (92%), and accessibility (96%)
5%
18%
36%
92%
96%
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Percent of total platform usage
Software
development
IT
operations
Business
Security
Web and mobile
Year-over-year growth
Network security
Secure coding
Application security
Advanced persistent threats
Governance
Hardening systems
Zero trust
Year-over-year growth
Year-over-year growth
User research
User experience
Interaction design
Interface design
Accessibility
Software
development
Software
development
Business
Business
5%
18%
36%
92%
96%
Leadership and management content usage
Coding practices content usage
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