CircleCI Publishes 2025 State of Software Delivery Report

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 18, 2025--

CircleCI, a leading continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, today published its sixth annual State of Software Delivery report. Based on the analysis of nearly 15 million workflows of teams building on CircleCI, the report delves into how advancements like CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code, and AI-powered developer tools have raised the floor for what it means to be good at delivering software.

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This year’s data reveals a stark divide between high and low performing software teams. The top 25% of high performing teams are:

“The top performing teams represented in this year’s report clearly see being great at software delivery as a strategic advantage,” said Rob Zuber, CTO of CircleCI. “AI is changing how software is created at a rate we’ve never seen before. Instead of trying to predict what the world of software will look like in five years, focus on building a culture that can quickly adapt to constant change – CI/CD is a core part of this.”

The report’s data analyzes specific developer productivity metrics year over year, including workflow duration, throughput, recovery speed, and success rate, to evaluate benchmarks for developers. It also provides tools and next steps for improving performance on all four metrics. While some developer teams exceeded some metrics, they didn't meet others -- however, the highest performing developers routinely met or exceeded metrics in chart 1, "summary of 2025 software delivery metrics."

“IDC's most recent DevOps survey revealed that more than 70% of organizations consider their DevOps strategy a driver of high or extremely high business value, reflecting a trend towards more accountability for business outcomes,” said Jim Mercer, IDC's Program Vice President, Software Development, DevOps & DevSecOps. “It's nice to see organizations recognize the importance of DevOps, but it puts more pressure on these teams to improve the value they provide to the business by leveraging modern developer and DevOps tools that can enable them to build the intelligent applications of the future.”

The State of Software Delivery research also breaks down software delivery metrics by industry in chart 2, "summary of 2025 software delivery metrics by industry." Despite differences in challenges each industry grapples with, one constant remains: the ability to deliver high-quality software quickly is a competitive advantage.

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Methodology

The 2025 State of Software Delivery Report analyzes data from nearly 15 million workflows from over 22,000 organizations in 149 countries. The data was collected within the first 28 days of September 2024.

About CircleCI

CircleCI is a leading continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, enabling more than two million global users on elite engineering teams like Okta, Hinge, and Hugging Face to rapidly build, test, deploy, and monitor software they can trust. Through powerful pipeline automation, CircleCI manages limitless complexity at scale through unmatched flexibility and reliability, reducing the time from build to delivery by 3x the industry average. For more information about CircleCI, visit www.circleci.com or follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube.

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LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Labour Party government on Tuesday announced an overhaul of the welfare system that it says will save the cash-strapped administration 5 billion pounds ($6.5 billion). Critics claim it will harm some of the U.K.’s most vulnerable people.

The government says the shakeup will help people who are currently “written off” find jobs. It's a risky strategy for a party founded more than a century ago to fight for the rights of working people, and it has made trade unions and party supporters uneasy.

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall told lawmakers in the House of Commons that the government had inherited a broken social security system that is “failing the very people it is supposed to help and holding our country back.”

She said Britain’s statistics are stark, with one in 10 working-age people claiming a sickness or disability benefit, and “millions of people who could work trapped on benefits.”

Blaming the Conservatives, who lost power in July after 14 years, for damaging the economy and health system, Kendall said “the social security system will always be there for people in genuine need.”

But she announced changes to the way disabilities are assessed. Campaigners say that will make it harder for people to get and keep benefits.

The changes, which will have to be approved by Parliament, are expected to save more than 5 billion pounds by 2030.

Not everything is being cut. The overhaul also includes an above-inflation increase to universal credit, one of the most common welfare benefits. Kendall said 1 billion pounds will be spent to "tear down barriers to work,” including new rules allowing welfare recipients to try out paid jobs without losing their benefits.

The government claims a lack of support towards employment is trapping sick and disabled people in economic inactivity. Kendall said that “in most comparable countries” spending on sickness and disability benefits “is either stable or falling – whilst ours continues to inexorably rise.”

The Disability Benefits Consortium, which represents more than 100 charities and organizations, said the “cruel” changes “will largely hit those who are unable to work and rely on these benefits to survive.”

Sarah Hughes, chief executive of mental health charity Mind, said the cuts would make it harder for people to get support and “will only serve to deepen the nation’s mental health crisis.”

Prime Minister Keir Starmer ’s center-left government has seen its popularity plummet as it grapples with a sluggish economy and creaking public services.

Treasury chief Rachel Reeves is due to make a spring budget statement on March 26, and is expected to trim public spending to make up for lower-than-expected tax takings and high borrowing costs.

Tuesday’s welfare announcement followed weeks of speculation about how deep the cuts would be.

Labour lawmaker Imran Hussain said that “thousands of the most severely disabled people in my constituency, and millions across the U.K., have watched in disbelief as politicians debate cuts to the support that enables their very survival, leaving many at breaking point.”

Kendall said she understood “the worry and anxiety.”

“And I hope I’ve made it clear to the House today, I don’t start from a position of being tough,” she said. “I start by precisely from a position of compassion.”

FILE - Incoming Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Liz Kendall arrives at Downing Street in London, Friday, July 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Thomas Krych, file)