47  Which collaboration tools do you use for software development?

47.1 Nordics

47.1.1 Descriptive Statistics

Collaboration tool (Nordics)
Total respondents: 61
Category Respondents (n) Percentage (%)
GitHub 57 93.4%
Git 43 70.5%
GitLab 32 52.5%
Slack 31 50.8%
Google Drive 14 23.0%
Confluence 5 8.2%
Jira 4 6.6%
Trello 3 4.9%

47.1.2 Free-text responses

Collaboration Tools [Others]
Response Category Frequency (n) Percentage (%)
zulip 2 20.0%
codeberg 1 10.0%
matrix 1 10.0%
mattermost 1 10.0%
redmine 1 10.0%
rocket chat 1 10.0%
teams 1 10.0%
zulip chat 1 10.0%
zulipchat 1 10.0%

The raw-to-category allocation table for this question is in Appendix B.

47.1.3 Statistics by age group

Collaboration tool by age group (Nordics)
Total respondents with age reported: 61. Rows are ranked separately within each age group by respondent count.
Below 35 (n=20)
35-45 (n=27)
45+ (n=14)
Category Respondents (n) Percentage (%) Category Respondents (n) Percentage (%) Category Respondents (n) Percentage (%)
GitHub 18 90.0% GitHub 27 100.0% GitHub 12 85.7%
Git 17 85.0% Git 18 66.7% Slack 9 64.3%
GitLab 11 55.0% GitLab 13 48.1% Git 8 57.1%
Slack 10 50.0% Slack 12 44.4% GitLab 8 57.1%
Google Drive 5 25.0% Google Drive 5 18.5% Google Drive 4 28.6%
Confluence 2 10.0% Jira 1 3.7% Confluence 3 21.4%
Jira 1 5.0% Trello 1 3.7% Jira 2 14.3%


Trello 2 14.3%

47.2 Within Nordics

Collaboration tool selections within Nordics
Total respondents: 61. Percentages are within each country.
Category Respondents (n) Percentage (%)
Estonia (n=8)
Git 6 75.0%
GitHub 6 75.0%
GitLab 6 75.0%
Slack 4 50.0%
Google Drive 1 12.5%
Iceland (n=1)
Git 1 100.0%
GitHub 1 100.0%
Google Drive 1 100.0%
Slack 1 100.0%
Denmark (n=4)
GitHub 4 100.0%
Slack 4 100.0%
Git 2 50.0%
Confluence 1 25.0%
GitLab 1 25.0%
Trello 1 25.0%
Sweden (n=19)
GitHub 17 89.5%
Slack 14 73.7%
Git 12 63.2%
GitLab 6 31.6%
Google Drive 4 21.1%
Confluence 2 10.5%
Jira 1 5.3%
Trello 1 5.3%
Norway (n=9)
GitHub 9 100.0%
Git 7 77.8%
GitLab 3 33.3%
Google Drive 2 22.2%
Slack 1 11.1%
Finland (n=20)
GitHub 20 100.0%
GitLab 16 80.0%
Git 15 75.0%
Slack 7 35.0%
Google Drive 6 30.0%
Jira 3 15.0%
Confluence 2 10.0%
Trello 1 5.0%
Warning: Removed 8 rows containing missing values or values outside the scale range
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47.3 Between Countries

Warning: Removed 14 rows containing missing values or values outside the scale range
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