Survey: Platform Engineering Adoption Gains Significant Traction
Platform Engineering, Thursday, May 22nd, 2025
A survey of 326 software engineering leaders conducted by Futurum Research finds that adoption of platform engineering as a methodology for building and deploying applications at scale is gaining significant traction.
More than a quarter of respondents (26%) have mastered platform engineering, compared to 41% who are still working toward applying platform engineering across multiple projects. Another 24% are still working toward operationalizing a set of best practices for platform engineering, while 7% are just getting started.
Roughly half of platform engineering teams provide cloud/multi-cloud management (52%) and dev/test/production environment support (48%). DevOps toolchains (43%), standard platform configurations (42%), and containers/Kubernetes (41%) support are also prevalent in platform engineering teams.