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Top Tech Stats: Developer’s ROI on education, AI at work and digital marketing

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Welcome to your roundup of some of the past week’s most interesting surveys, statistics and reports relevant to those involved in the UK tech industry.

This week, we have statistics relating developer’s education return on investment, AI at work and digital marketing expenditure.

Developer’s ROI on university degrees

Stack Overflow released its Q3 Developer Ecosystem report, which sheds new light on emerging trends in developer education, earlier this week.

Based on its annual survey of more than 4,700 developers in the UK and Ireland, coders who gain a Bacherlor’s degree only earn £3,000 more per year than those who don’t hold one.

The data suggest that a £9,000 a year undergraduate education may not have the return on investment many students expect....