The Drupal Business Survey investigates the trends in the digital market, in particular from service providers involved with the open source DXP Drupal. Digital agencies from all over the world participate in the yearly survey. Business insights on market share and growth opportunities are shared in a comprehensive report. The results are presented at DrupalCon Europe, the international Drupal conference. Digital business owners from all over the world are invited to participate.
The Drupal Business Survey shares valuable business insights from Drupal service providers worldwide. Drupal’s open source ecosystem is supported by a strong community of tens of thousands professionals worldwide, working together on the popular digital experience platform. Because Drupal is open source, anyone can work with Drupal or make changes to it. The Drupal Business Survey gives meaningful data for business owners and decision makers to build their next year’s business strategy on.
The Drupal Business Survey results in a comprehensive report on business outlook and customer engagement. It has been a valuable guide for digital service providers, even to those working with other technologies but Drupal. Participants are from all continents, with most of the companies being in business for 10 years or more.
Results in 2023
In 2023, the Business Survey underscored Drupal’s powerful selling points including security, flexibility and reliability. Business decision makers choosing Drupal for the digital experiences, found these values to be significantly more important. Drupal’s market share increased notably in 2023 in the finance industry as well as industry and automotive. Education and government remain consistent Drupal users.
Open Source remains one of the most powerful reasons for choosing Drupal. Being vendor independent and using the power is the basis for Drupal’s success. Companies have continued their contribution to the open source ecosystem, in spite of the harder market outlook in 2023.
Also the need for Drupal talent continues to be strong. More than 70% of the companies stated the business growth or need of expertise as their main reason for hiring new staff.
Imre Gmelig Meijling: “We continue to see a strong position of Drupal as valuable solution. Agencies and service providers remain committed to Drupal and pitch it as one of the best content management solutions on the market. The strong commitment to Drupal by so many organizations worldwide proves that Drupal is a solid choice for many brands and organizations across the globe.”
CEO Dinner
The Drupal market is looking forward to how digital service providers are using Drupal and how the Drupal market has evolved this year. The results of the 2024 Drupal Business Survey will be presented at the CEO Dinner at DrupalCon Europe. DrupalCon Europe is the yearly Drupal summit where over 1500 Drupal users and professionals meet to exchange ideas and further evolve Drupal. The conference is held from 24-27 September in Barcelona, Spain. The CEO Dinner will be on Wednesday 25 September, extending the conversation to a BOF (Birds of a Feather) session on 26 September.
About the Business Survey
The Drupal Business Survey support Drupal businesses worldwide and is organized by a team of industry experts Imre Gmelig Meijling (React Online), Janne Kalliola (Exove) and Michel van Velde (Craftmore) in collaboration with the Drupal Association.
Drupal is the open source Digital Experience Platform used by many organizations worldwide including Nestlé, Lufthansa and WWF.
Participate and share your insights
Drupal experts are invited to share their Drupal business insights through the Business Survey anonymously and come to DrupalCon Europe to review the results together.
You can participate in the Drupal Business Survey anonymously here: The Drupal Business Survey 2024. The survey closes on 4 September.