Which technologies are most represented among United Kingdom developers?
Technologies ranked by how represented they are among United Kingdom developers on StarHunt, as of September 2026.
Which United Kingdom 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 | London | Python TypeScript Node.js | 64.4% | 34% | 22% |
| 2 | Cambridge | Python C++ TypeScript | 6.1% | 36% | 15% |
| 3 | Manchester | Python TypeScript Node.js | 5.9% | 31% | 18% |
| 4 | Edinburgh | Python Node.js TypeScript | 4.6% | 34% | 14% |
| 5 | Bristol | Python Node.js Java | 4.1% | 32% | 13% |
| 6 | Glasgow | Python Java Node.js | 2.7% | 36% | 15% |
| 7 | Oxford | Python Node.js TypeScript | 2.5% | 32% | 17% |
| 8 | Leeds | Python Node.js AWS | 1.9% | 33% | 17% |
| 9 | Sheffield | Python Node.js TypeScript | 1.5% | 37% | 15% |
| 10 | Birmingham | Python TypeScript Node.js | 1.4% | 32% | 19% |
| 11 | Brighton | TypeScript Python Node.js | 1.2% | 41% | 24% |
| 12 | Newcastle | Node.js TypeScript Python | 1.2% | 42% | 14% |
| 13 | Nottingham | Python TypeScript AWS | 1.0% | 33% | 18% |
| 14 | Liverpool | Python TypeScript C++ | 0.8% | 23% | 20% |
| 15 | Reading | Python Kubernetes / DevOps PyTorch / ML | 0.7% | 31% | 13% |
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 United Kingdom?
Python is the most represented technology among United Kingdom developers on StarHunt, as of September 2026.
What share of United Kingdom GitHub developers list a public email?
34% of the United Kingdom developers StarHunt surfaces list a public email address on GitHub.
Which skills are hardest to source in United Kingdom?
Scala / Spark is among the least represented technologies in United Kingdom, roughly 25.3× rarer than Python.
Which United Kingdom city has the most GitHub developers?
London leads United Kingdom 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 United Kingdom.
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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