Hiring teams assume developers are hard to reach. Measured across 95,000+ active GitHub profiles, 32% publish an email address anyone can use. The difficulty is not access, it is knowing who to contact.
Share of developers listing a public email address, for countries with a large enough sample to publish. Ranked from most to least reachable.
The same measure, grouped by the technologies developers actually work with rather than by what they claim on a profile.
Cities with a large enough sample, ranked by the share of developers who can be contacted directly.
The 'available for hire' flag is a much stronger signal than reachability, and a much rarer one. Ranked by the share of each group that has turned it on.
Roles inferred from public work rather than job titles.
32% of the active developers in this study list a public email address on their GitHub profile, which means they can be contacted without an introduction or a paid tool.
16% have enabled the 'available for hire' flag on their GitHub profile. That group is far smaller than the reachable one, but it is the warmest audience for outreach.
Aggregated from 95,000+ public GitHub profiles indexed by StarHunt as of August 2026. Only public profile fields and public contribution activity were used. No private data, no scraping of gated sources.
Every figure comes from public GitHub profile fields and public contribution activity, aggregated across the StarHunt index as of August 2026. A country, technology, city or role appears only when its sample is large enough for a percentage to be meaningful, which is why some familiar names are absent. No private data is used, and no gated source is scraped.
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