🇫🇷 GitHub developers in France: cities and technologies

Updated September 2026 | Data from StarHunt's GitHub index

According to StarHunt's index of the most active GitHub developers in France, as of September 2026, TypeScript is the most represented technology, and 32% list a public email address, so a large share can be contacted directly. Paris has the most active engineers.

1M+ Repos analyzed
13 Cities covered
32% Public email
15 Technologies covered

Which technologies are most represented among France developers?

Technologies ranked by how represented they are among France developers on StarHunt, as of September 2026.

TypeScript Python Node.js PHP Java Go / Golang Kubernetes / DevOps C++ AWS PyTorch / ML Rust React OVH Angular Azure
GCP engineers are rare in France. They are far less represented than TypeScript, about a 14.7× gap, which makes GCP talent significantly harder to source.

Which France 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.

#CityTop 3 technologiesShare of located profilesPublic email
1ParisPython TypeScript Node.js49.9%34%
2LyonTypeScript Python Node.js10.1%33%
3ToulouseTypeScript Python Node.js7.8%29%
4BordeauxPython Node.js TypeScript6.2%36%
5NantesNode.js PHP TypeScript5.5%28%
6LilleJava Node.js Angular4.4%34%
7RennesPython React Node.js3.0%35%
8GrenoblePHP Python TypeScript2.9%34%
9MontpellierTypeScript Python Node.js2.7%30%
10MarseillePHP TypeScript Node.js2.6%28%
11NiceReact TypeScript Python2.1%29%
12StrasbourgPython C++ Node.js1.8%32%
13RouenPython TypeScript Node.js0.7%33%

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 France?

TypeScript is the most represented technology among France developers on StarHunt, as of September 2026.

What share of France GitHub developers list a public email?

32% of the France developers StarHunt surfaces list a public email address on GitHub.

Which skills are hardest to source in France?

GCP is among the least represented technologies in France, roughly 14.7× rarer than TypeScript.

Which France city has the most GitHub developers?

Paris leads France 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 France.

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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