🇺🇸 GitHub developers in the US: cities and technologies

Updated November 2026 | Data from StarHunt's GitHub index

According to StarHunt's index of the most active GitHub developers in the United States, as of November 2026, Python is the most represented technology, and 39% list a public email address, so a large share can be contacted directly. San Francisco has the most active engineers.

22% Open to work
15 Cities covered
39% Public email
15 Technologies covered

Which technologies are most represented among developers in the United States?

Technologies ranked by how represented they are among developers in the United States on StarHunt, as of November 2026.

Python TypeScript Node.js React AWS PyTorch / ML C++ Go / Golang Kubernetes / DevOps Rust Java Azure .NET / C# Ruby GCP
Clojure engineers are rare in the United States. They are far less represented than Python, about a 75.3× gap, which makes Clojure talent significantly harder to source.

How the United States compares with other countries, by count and by share: GitHub developers by country.

Which cities in the United States 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 emailOpen to work
1San FranciscoPython TypeScript AI Agents20.9%38%21%
2New YorkPython TypeScript Node.js16.9%35%22%
3SeattlePython TypeScript AWS14.6%38%19%
4BostonPython TypeScript AI Agents7.5%37%22%
5AustinPython TypeScript Node.js7.4%39%22%
6ChicagoPython TypeScript Node.js6.3%37%21%
7Los AngelesPython TypeScript Node.js5.8%36%22%
8AtlantaPython Node.js TypeScript4.9%36%22%
9PortlandPython Node.js TypeScript4.0%42%21%
10DenverPython Node.js TypeScript3.9%39%23%
11San DiegoPython Node.js TypeScript3.3%38%21%
12RaleighPython AI Agents TypeScript1.5%44%20%
13OrlandoTypeScript Python Node.js1.2%38%26%
14NashvillePython Node.js TypeScript1.1%38%19%
15DetroitPython TypeScript AI Agents0.6%42%31%

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 the United States?

Python is the most represented technology among developers in the United States on StarHunt, as of November 2026.

What share of GitHub developers in the United States list a public email?

39% of the developers StarHunt surfaces in the United States list a public email address on GitHub.

Which skills are hardest to source in the United States?

Clojure is among the least represented technologies in the United States, roughly 75.3× rarer than Python.

Which city in the United States has the most GitHub developers?

San Francisco leads the United States 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 the United States.

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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