getstarhunt/githubstats

GitHub Developer Index: reachability and availability by city

Aggregated statistics on 86,656 active GitHub developers in the United States, France and the United Kingdom, broken down by metropolitan area, technology and engineering role.

Each row reports how many developers the group contains, what share publish an email address on their GitHub profile, and what share have flagged themselves as available for hire.

Last updated: 2026-11-02. Refreshed monthly.

Files

File	Scope
starhunt-developers.csv	All three markets
starhunt-developers-us.csv	United States
starhunt-developers-fr.csv	France
starhunt-developers-uk.csv	United Kingdom

Columns

Column	Meaning
country	United States, France or United Kingdom
metro	Metropolitan area, or * for the whole country
technology	Technology, or * for all
role	Engineering role, or * for all
developers	Number of developers in the group
public_email_pct	Share with a public email address on their profile
open_to_work_pct	Share whose profile is flagged as available for hire

A developer is counted once per group, never once per technology. Rows are a cube: the country total, each city, each technology, each role, and the city-by-technology crossings.

By country

Country	Developers	Public email	Open to work
United States	60,835	39%	22%
United Kingdom	13,853	34%	22%
France	11,968	31%	19%

Largest cities

City	Country	Developers	Public email	Open to work
San Francisco	United States	9,951	40%	21%
London	United Kingdom	7,053	35%	22%
New York	United States	5,755	36%	22%
Seattle	United States	4,619	39%	18%
Paris	France	4,442	32%	19%
Boston	United States	2,841	40%	20%
Los Angeles	United States	2,270	38%	21%
Chicago	United States	1,752	38%	21%
Austin	United States	1,732	40%	23%
Denver	United States	1,662	39%	21%
Atlanta	United States	1,327	37%	23%
Portland	United States	1,237	43%	22%
Washington	United States	1,035	38%	23%
Dallas	United States	898	39%	27%
San Diego	United States	860	39%	20%

Method, and what this does not measure

Figures come from public GitHub profiles and repositories, enriched and deduplicated. Locations are free text on GitHub, so they are normalised to a metropolitan area before counting, and suburbs fold into their hub.

Three limits worth stating.

This measures the developers we have indexed, not every developer in a city: a place with fewer rows may simply be less covered.

"Open to work" is GitHub's own self-declared flag, which people set and then forget. Read it as a floor, not a census.

Groups smaller than 50 developers are excluded entirely. Below that, a percentage is rounding noise rather than a measurement.

Privacy

This dataset contains no individual records: no usernames, no email addresses, no profile URLs. Only counts and percentages over groups of at least 50 people.

License and citation

Released under CC BY 4.0. Free to reuse, including commercially, with attribution.

StarHunt, GitHub Developer Index (2026-11-02). https://www.getstarhunt.com/developer-dataset.html

Full method and tables: https://www.getstarhunt.com/developer-dataset.html