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title: "The State of Django 2026: Boring is so back"
description: "The fifth annual Django Developers Survey, produced by Django Software Foundation and PyCharm, draws on responses from nearly 3,500 developers in more than 40 countries. It reports that Django’s core remains stable, with PostgreSQL used by 76–79% of respondents across five years, templates around 80%, and 43% already on Django 6.0. At the same time, AI is routine but fragmented: 58% of AI users work with it daily, while 56% use it only for chat and advice and just 27% use autonomous multi-step tasks. The survey also describes rapid consolidation around uv and Ruff, growing adoption of type hints, and a testing and CI/CD base that can verify agent-generated changes, although 19% write no automated tests. Django supports both server-rendered and API/frontend patterns, while its stable foundation lets developers change surrounding tools and workflows without replacing the framework."
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# The State of Django 2026: Boring is so back

[Jetbrains](https://yomu.fyi/company/jetbrains) · Will Vincent · Aug 28, 2026

**Type:** Explainer

## Summary

The fifth annual Django Developers Survey, produced by Django Software Foundation and PyCharm, draws on responses from nearly 3,500 developers in more than 40 countries. It reports that Django’s core remains stable, with PostgreSQL used by 76–79% of respondents across five years, templates around 80%, and 43% already on Django 6.0. At the same time, AI is routine but fragmented: 58% of AI users work with it daily, while 56% use it only for chat and advice and just 27% use autonomous multi-step tasks. The survey also describes rapid consolidation around uv and Ruff, growing adoption of type hints, and a testing and CI/CD base that can verify agent-generated changes, although 19% write no automated tests. Django supports both server-rendered and API/frontend patterns, while its stable foundation lets developers change surrounding tools and workflows without replacing the framework.

## Context

The report describes how Django developers’ established framework practices compare with rapidly changing AI workflows, Python tooling, type-checking choices, frontend patterns, and deployment habits.

## Approach / What changed

The fifth annual survey analyzes responses from nearly 3,500 Django developers across more than 40 countries, covering framework usage, AI workflows, Python tools, typing, testing, frontend architecture, and deployment.

## Takeaways

- AI adoption is widespread but supervised: 58% of AI users use it daily, 59% generate code and apply changes themselves, and 27% use it for autonomous multi-step tasks.
- uv is used by 43% of respondents and Ruff by 43%, indicating consolidation around newer tools while older Python environment and code-quality utilities remain in use.
- Django supports both major application patterns: 72% use server-rendered templates, while 53% use Django for API-only applications and 46% use it behind a separate frontend.

**Tags:** [Deployment](https://yomu.fyi/topic/deployment), [LLMs](https://yomu.fyi/topic/llm), [Python](https://yomu.fyi/topic/python), [Testing](https://yomu.fyi/topic/testing)

- Source: [Jetbrains](https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2026/08/the-state-of-django-2026-boring-is-so-back)
- Source URL: https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2026/08/the-state-of-django-2026-boring-is-so-back
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