Appendix A. Survey Respondent Demographics
About half (49 percent) of the respondents to the Cloud Platform Survey work in the IT industry (Figure A-1).
Figure A-1. Industry
The majority of survey responses (51 percent) came from people located in North America (Figure A-2), with 35 percent from Europe.
Figure A-3 shows respondents came from a range of company sizes (in number of employees). Twenty-two percent are from companies with 9 employees or fewer, 24 percent from companies with 10 to 99 employees, 20 percent from 100 to 999, 18 percent from companies of 1,000 to 9,999, and 9 percent from companies with 10,000 to 99,999 employees.
Figure A-2. Geographic region
Figure A-3. Company size
Respondents identified as being software developers (27 percent), software/cloud architects (22 percent), or in IT operations roles (17 percent) (Figure A-4).
Figure A-4. Respondent’s role in company
The top roles responsible for infrastructure and platform issues at the respondents’ companies included IT operations (53 percent) and DevOps (41 percent) (Figure A-5), with only a handful (less than 2 percent) of respondents nominating the development team as being responsible.
