Which technologies are most represented among Canada developers?
Technologies ranked by how represented they are among Canada developers on StarHunt, as of October 2026.
Which Canada cities have the most GitHub developers?
Cities ranked by developer activity, with their leading technologies, their weight in the country, and how many engineers can be contacted directly. Only cities with meaningful activity are shown.
| # | City | Top 3 technologies | Share of located profiles | Public email | Open to work |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toronto | Python TypeScript Node.js | 34.5% | 39% | 27% |
| 2 | Vancouver | Python TypeScript Node.js | 21.9% | 40% | 24% |
| 3 | Montreal | Python TypeScript Node.js | 13.6% | 36% | 26% |
| 4 | Ottawa | Python TypeScript Node.js | 6.2% | 44% | 21% |
| 5 | Montréal | Python TypeScript RAG / Retrieval | 4.3% | 37% | 22% |
| 6 | Calgary | Python TypeScript Node.js | 4.1% | 38% | 21% |
| 7 | Waterloo | TypeScript Python RAG / Retrieval | 3.3% | 38% | 22% |
| 8 | Victoria | TypeScript Python Node.js | 2.9% | 33% | 20% |
| 9 | Edmonton | Python TypeScript AI Agents | 2.4% | 47% | 25% |
| 10 | Quebec | Python AI Agents TypeScript | 2.0% | 40% | 30% |
| 11 | Québec | Python TypeScript Node.js | 1.7% | 38% | 20% |
| 12 | Winnipeg | Python TypeScript Node.js | 1.3% | 35% | 22% |
| 13 | Halifax | Python TypeScript Node.js | 1.0% | 35% | 24% |
| 14 | Kitchener | Node.js TypeScript GCP | 0.9% | 38% | 29% |
Public email is the share of developers in that city who list an address on their GitHub profile, which is the difference between writing to them directly and going through a platform. Methodology and the wider picture are in the State of Developer Reachability 2026.
Frequently asked questions
Which technology is most common among GitHub developers in Canada?
Python is the most represented technology among Canada developers on StarHunt, as of October 2026.
What share of Canada GitHub developers list a public email?
38% of the Canada developers StarHunt surfaces list a public email address on GitHub.
Which skills are hardest to source in Canada?
Swift / iOS is among the least represented technologies in Canada, roughly 15.4× rarer than Python.
Which Canada city has the most GitHub developers?
Toronto leads Canada for GitHub developer activity on StarHunt.
About this data
This page is generated from StarHunt's index of GitHub profiles, built by our crawler and refreshed regularly, with this page regenerated weekly. Profiles are sourced from contributors to reference open-source repositories and from GitHub Search, then located via the public GitHub profile field (normalized across common variants). StarHunt ranks the most active developers by their real open-source footprint, part of a worldwide index that grows continuously. Figures reflect the developers ranked in Canada.
Profiles are ranked by how well they match a given search rather than by a fixed score, and only developers with a clear signal of activity in the relevant technologies are surfaced.
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