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Development environment software

Technology category · O*NET

Development environment software is a technology category in the O*NET database. Across U.S. occupations, 200 report using software or tools in this category. The named products below are the specific examples O*NET records for those jobs. The occupations that use it sit, on average, at the 80th percentile of AI task-exposure ( high) — how much that work overlaps with what AI can do, not a sign the tool is being replaced. See where every tool category sits.

A Hot tag marks technologies O*NET sees frequently in employer job postings; In demand marks tools an occupation specifically requires.

Example software & tools

Ranked by how many occupations list each product. Each number is an occupation count — a job is counted once per product — so the product rows overlap and do not sum to the category total.

Software / tool Occupations Tags
Microsoft Visual Basic 96 Hot
C 69 Hot In demand
National Instruments LabVIEW 62 In demand
Microsoft Azure software 48 Hot In demand
Microsoft Visual Studio 46 Hot In demand
Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications VBA 45 Hot In demand
Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition VBScript 34
Ruby 33 Hot
Adobe ActionScript 32
Eclipse IDE 31 Hot In demand
Microsoft .NET Framework 31 Hot In demand
Formula translation/translator FORTRAN 30
Microsoft PowerShell 29 Hot In demand
Go 28 Hot In demand
Apache Kafka 27 Hot In demand
Integrated development environment IDE software 27
Software development tools 27 In demand
Verilog 24 In demand
Apache Maven 21 Hot
Apache Ant 20
Common business oriented language COBOL 20
Ada 11
Prolog 10
Oracle Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition J2EE 9 Hot
Software libraries 9
IBM Rational ClearQuest 8
Interface definition language IDL 8
Canu 7
IBM Rational Rose XDE 7
Web application software 7 In demand
Oracle SQL Developer 6 Hot
List processing language LISP 6
OpenAI ChatGPT 6
Very high-speed integrated circuit VHSIC hardware description language VHDL 6
MUMPS M 5
Pascal 5
Restructured extended executor REXX 5
Unity Technologies Unity 5 In demand
A programming language APL 4
Beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code BASIC 4

Showing the top 40 of 189 products in this category.

Occupations that use Development environment software

Showing 40 of 200 occupations.

Exposure quadrant: AI task-overlap percentile vs Median pay AI task-overlap (horizontal) versus median pay (vertical), each as a percentile across all scored occupations, for 40 occupations in occupations that use Development environment software. Overlap measures shared tasks with AI, not automation. Lower overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · lower pay Lower overlap · lower pay Automotive and Watercraft Service Attendants Biomass Plant Technicians Avionics Technicians Biological Technicians Chemical Technicians Automotive Engineering Technicians Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School Biofuels/Biodiesel Technology and Product Development Managers Biologists Chemical Engineers Cartographers and Photogrammetrists Art Directors Atmospheric, Earth, Marine, and Space Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary AI task-overlap percentile → ↑ Median pay
Occupations that use Development environment software, by AI task-overlap and median pay

How AI is used by roles that use Development environment software

A software category is not itself "being automated" — but we can look at the roles that report using Development environment software and ask how those people actually use AI. This rolls the Anthropic Economic Index per-role signal up across those roles, weighted by how much observed AI activity each one has. 64.0% of the 200 roles that use this category carry observed AI-usage data (128 roles).

Across those roles, 59.0% of AI conversations are people working with AI and 35.5% hand a task to AI , with an average autonomy of 3.79 / 5.

Collaboration pattern Share What it means
task iteration 35.7% you and AI go back and forth
directive 32.8% AI does it; you give the instruction
learning 16.3% you ask AI to explain or teach
validation 7.0% you do it; AI checks your work
feedback loop 2.6% AI does it, then adjusts from your feedback

Roles behind this signal

The roles using this category that have the most AEI data. "Works with AI" is the role's share of conversations that augment rather than automate.

Occupation Works with AI Autonomy
Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary 63.2% 4.0/5
Educational, Guidance, School, and Vocational Counselors 70.6% 4.0/5
Technical Writers 54.2% 4.0/5
Recreation and Fitness Studies Teachers, Postsecondary 66.2% 3.3/5
Instructional Coordinators 53.1% 4.0/5
Geography Teachers, Postsecondary 65.7% 3.3/5
Political Science Teachers, Postsecondary 65.7% 3.3/5
Atmospheric, Earth, Marine, and Space Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary 66.3% 4.0/5
Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary 65.0% 3.0/5
Physics Teachers, Postsecondary 65.9% 4.0/5
Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary 66.1% 4.0/5
Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary 68.5% 4.0/5

Source: Anthropic Economic Index (2026-01-15-v4-plus-2025-03-27-v2) over a sample of Claude.ai Free and Pro conversations — not all AI tools and not the whole workforce. Roles list software categories in O*NET; this does not mean AI is used inside Development environment software, only that people in those roles use AI. Some conversations are left unclassified, so shares need not sum to 100.

Industries that concentrate this

Where Development environment software matters most across the economy. Employment reach is the share of an industry's workers in occupations that significantly use Development environment software (O*NET importance ≥ 3 of 5, or report using the tool category). Concentration compares that reach to the national average industry, so a value above 1× means the requirement is more pervasive here than across the economy as a whole.

Nationally, about 24.3% of workers are in occupations that significantly use Development environment software (measured across 67 industries).

Sectors with the most such workers

Sector Workers Employment reach
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services 6,555,240 60.9%
Retail Trade 4,488,490 28.8%
Manufacturing 3,250,480 25.5%
Educational Services 3,106,280 22.8%
Finance and Insurance 3,104,770 49.9%
Wholesale Trade 2,332,060 38.6%
Health Care and Social Assistance 1,969,130 8.5%
Construction 1,932,010 23.8%
Management of Companies and Enterprises 1,673,770 59.6%
Information 1,661,330 57.1%
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services 1,541,740 17.1%
Other Services (except Public Administration) 722,450 16.3%

Industries where it is most concentrated

Industry Level Concentration Employment reach
Engineering Services National industry 3.28× 79.8%
Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities National industry 2.7× 65.6%
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Sector 2.51× 60.9%
Nuclear Electric Power Generation National industry 2.49× 60.4%
Management of Companies and Enterprises Sector 2.45× 59.6%
Sporting Goods Retailers National industry 2.36× 57.3%
Information Sector 2.35× 57.1%
Testing Laboratories and Services National industry 2.34× 56.8%
Fossil Fuel Electric Power Generation National industry 2.13× 51.8%
Finance and Insurance Sector 2.05× 49.9%
Solar Electric Power Generation National industry 1.96× 47.7%
Utilities Sector 1.77× 43.1%

Reach is a measure of how widespread a requirement is across an industry's workforce, not how intensively any individual uses it. Sector worker counts come from BLS OEWS employment; the significance threshold and tool use come from O*NET. Industries shown by concentration are filtered to a real worker base so a tiny specialty cannot top the list on rounding.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

Data compiled June 3, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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Singulariki. "Development environment software." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; Census NAICS 2022; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/tools/development-environment-software

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Singulariki. (2026). Development environment software. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/tools/development-environment-software

BibTeX
@misc{singulariki-development-environment-software,
  title  = {Development environment software},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; Census NAICS 2022; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tools/development-environment-software}
}

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