1.Overview

The third annual survey on Software Developers in Morocco provides invaluable insights into the community and their professional paths. This year's results are particularly interesting as we can draw trends from previous years. Here are some selected takeaways:

• There was a 67% increase in the number of respondents compared to last year, with a 3% increase in female participation.
• JavaScript remains the most popular language, while Python is the fastest growing.
• A third of the respondents use AI tools in their work on a daily basis, and over 50% of companies now operate remotely as the new normal.

A word about methodology

At our core, we value anonymity and as such, all collected data from the survey is anonymized. Raw results and the website code are also available under the BY-NC-SA 2.0 license on the GeeksBlaBla GitHub organization.

Please note that not all fields in the survey were mandatory, which may result in some results and graphics not reflecting the total number of respondents for every question.

We extend our heartfelt thanks to all our contributors and those who helped share the survey, and we eagerly await your feedback and for you to share the results with your network.

Finally, we express our gratitude to Kawtar CHOUBARI for creating an amazing promotion video for the survey.

2.Profile

The objective of this first section is to get insights about the profile and the skills of the people working in Software Engineering in Morocco. The majority of the people that answered the survey are men with an increase of women participation by 3% from last year. Also, the majority of the respondents are junior developers with less than 3 years of experience and most of them are living in Morocco with plans to work abroad in the next 2 years.

Gender

As can be seen, the results are very similar to last year's with an increase of 3% of female participation which result that 85% of the people that filled this survey are men.

Age

Respondents between 18 and 24, representing fresh graduates and junior developers are still the majority. The second category of respondents is still people between 25 and 34. and more than 45 people were older than 35 yo.

Location

Half of the people that filled the survey are located in Casablanca-Settat or Rabat-Salé-Kénitra. Only 9% of respondents live abroad in Europe, the US, or other countries.

Roles

More than 40% of all respondents qualify themselves full-stack developers.

Highest degree

The results are very similar to last year's results, The majority of the respondents have an equivalent of a Master's degree. Followed by people who took 2/3-year training after their high school degree (BAC). Also, this year we have more self-taught respondents. Finally the percentage of respondents with a Ph.D. is still 1%.

Years coding professionally

Similar to the past year, There are more people that have been coding for 1 to 2 years, followed by people who have been coding for less than a year.

Coding as a hobby

Coding is a hobby for the majority of the developers that participate in the survey.

Plans to work abroad

41% of the people that answered this question have plans to work outside Morocco in the next 2 years (17% in the next year). Almost a third of the participants are still hesitating.

Plans to come back to Morocco

47.4% of the people that are working abroad have plans to come back to Morocco, and 8.2% are still hesitating

Favorite drink

Coffee is the still favorite drink of developers, followed by water.

3.Education and Learning

There is a lot to be said when talking about the educational system in Morocco. We asked the community about their thoughts, opinions, source of learning, and potential solutions.

Additionally, the majority are studied in public universities and more than 61% of them consider themselves self-taught.

Studies

More than 67% of respondents studied in public university but surprisingly 61% of them consider themselves self-taught. Additionally almost the number of people learning in bootcamp has been doubled compared to last year(2021).

Educational system

As usual, A complete spit in this question. 51.6% of participants think that the schools give them enough concepts to start their professional career.

Regarding the main contributors of education system problems, more than 82% agree that Academic defined subjects is the major issue.

Read/Written languages

Arabic, English and French are the top 3 languages that the majority of respondents can read/write.

Around 69% confirm that English isn't an obstacle for them to learn new technologies.

Content and learning platforms

More than 80% of all respondents identify the need for more Darija content in some form or another.

YouTube's educational resources are the preferred learning platform for the majority of the Moroccan community.

4.Work

Around 80% of Moroccan developers prefer working remotely , either full-time, part-time and companies start providing more options to work remotely for their employees. About 28% of all participants say they're students. Around 80% of respondents reported they're somehow happy with their current job.

Employment status

More than 60% of all respondents are employed, either full-time, part-time, or as freelancers. Almost 7% of respondents are looking for a job opportunity.

Working overtime

More than 25% of participants claim that they work 1-2 days per week overtime. Why is that? Is it by passion, dedication to results or under estimated scheduling?

Job satisfaction

Almost same as last year with a little increase, Around 80% of respondents reported they're somehow happy with their current job. This is consistent with Stackoverflow's own data on developers, feeling happy with their jobs.

Side projects

Almost 70% of respondents work on side projects to improve their skills, strengthen their knowledge,Make money and invest in themselves.

Unemployment after graduation

Almost 60% of all respondents reported that they found a job straight after their graduation 😎

Salaries

We asked full-time contractors in Morocco(CDI) about their NET salary range per month in MAD is and here are the results by years of experience.

We asked freelancer in Morocco about their salary range per day in MAD(TJM) is and here are the results by years of experience.

We asked full-time contractor outside Morocco, Your gross salary range per year in USD is and here are the results by years of experience.

We asked freelancer outside Morocco, Your daily gross wage in USD is and here are the results by years of experience.

Choosing a job offer

Almost similar to last year,Technical stack, Salary are the top three motivators for Moroccan developers to consider a job offer. and Unsurprisingly remote work options make it to the third place in front of company culture. Data shows industry and work impact have the least weight in career decisions.

Preferred Company size

Almost a split between medium and big companies, only 10% prefer companies with less then 10 employees.

Agile software development methodology

More than 85% of respondents are using an agile software methodology and more than 64% of them are using scrum.

Remote work

After the COVID-19, more companies are adopting remote work as almost 27% provide a full remote option and more than 56% of them provide a hybrid option to their employees.

Similar to last year, almost 90% of respondents prefer remote work either part time or full time

5.Technology

JavaScript stay the most popular language and Loved one by the Moroccan Community, in front of Java, Python, and PHP .

GoLang takes the top spot for programming languages that developers want to learn next. Going further down the list, we also see Python, Typescript as the most wanted programming languages.

Front-end frameworks/libraries

As always the Famous library for front-end development is React.js, stay the most loved and wanted by the Community, in front of the jQuery and Angular.js.

NextJS is the second most wanted framework in the list in front of ReactJS and passing both VueJs & AngularJs.

Backend frameworks/libraries

The Java-based framework used to create a micro Service or what we called Spring Eco-System is the most popular backend framework used by the Moroccan Community, in front of Express.js, Laravel, and .NET framework.

The Fast growth of the Python Community in Morocco, helped Django become one of the most wanted backend frameworks That developers want to learn next, besides ExpressJs and Laravel.

Platforms and tools

Cross-platform, back-end JavaScript runtime environment we talk about NodeJS that become the most used platform and tool in the list, passing React Native. In front of Docker and JVM, that become in the top 3.

Deployment, scaling, and management become one of the skills that developers want to learn next, and this is represented by Kubernetes, the most wanted platform and tool, in front of Docker and Flutter.

Primary operating systems

As always Windows is Still the most Primary Os that most Moroccan developers use

IDE & Code Editors

Unsurprisingly, VSCode is the most used code editor same as last year, Almost 80% of respondents use it to write their code. Jetbrains IDEs are second by 35% and only 11% are Vim users.

Learning New Technologies

Different languages solve the same problems in different ways. By learning several different approaches, you can help broaden your thinking and avoid getter struck in a rut.

That's what we see here, people learn new languages and Technologies every few months, and 31% of respondents are learning new Technologies once a year.

How do you solve problems?

If you're unsure what the best way forward is it can be incredibly helpful to get a second pair of eyes on it, that's why people prefer using Google to search for answers, and solve the problems, in front of Stack Overflow and other community forums.

Deployment environment

In software deployment, an environment, or tier is a computer system or set of systems in which a computer program or software component is deployed and executed. That's why most of the developers use public cloud providers, like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform to deploy their applications, and other ones use on-premise servers.

Cloud Providers

A cloud platform refers to the operating system and hardware of a server in an Internet-based data center. It allows software and hardware products to co-exist remotely and at scale.

Moroccan techs use mostly AWS as the first choice beside Azure and other Cloud providers.

Database

A production database contains the data you are using for production tasks such as creating and updating features. As we see in the survey MySQL/MariaDB is the most used database in the list, and PostgreSQL is the second most used database in the list, MongoDB is the third most used database in the list.

AI tools

The third of the respondents use AI tools in their work in a daily basis.

6.Community

Moroccan Developers are involved more and more on open source. More than 80% of respondents have at least contributed to an open-source project

Local Developer Communities

More than 51% of respondents are following local communities, but only 5% are active members

Open source contribution

Moroccan developers contribute more and more to open source, with more than 44% have at least contributed to an open-source project

Blogging

Almost than 59% of respondents consider writing blog posts in the future, only 17% of them have the chance to make it real.

Social Media

More than 26% of respondents consider twitter as their primary social media network when it comes to IT

Tech events attended in 2022

Almost 50% of the respondents attended at least one tech event in the past year!

Talks given in 2022

Almost 25% of respondents have already spoken at some IT event. In increase by 10% compared to last year.

Online vs in-person events

Same as last year, The Moroccan community is eager to learn and discover new things. Almost 70% said that the event format doesn't make a difference ("Li ja" for the non-dialect speaking meaning "whatever").

Moroccan Tech Community

More than 94% of all respondents think that the Moroccan community is quite good!

7. More Insights