Hiring teams assume developers are hard to reach. Measured across 330,000+ GitHub profiles, 39% publish an email address or a LinkedIn profile anyone can use. Among developers who are still active and whose location is known, the population a recruiter can actually work with, it reaches 61%. The difficulty is not access, it is knowing who to contact.
Share of developers publishing an email address or a LinkedIn profile, 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 publish a way to 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.
39% of the profiles in this study publish a public email address or a LinkedIn profile, so they can be contacted without an introduction or a paid tool. Among developers who are still active and whose location is known, that share reaches 61%.
The first covers every profile in the index. The second covers the 99,883 developers who pushed code in the last ninety days and whose location is known, which is the pool a hiring team can actually work with. Someone who stopped publishing three years ago is reachable on paper and irrelevant in practice, so both numbers are given rather than one average that describes neither.
No. Among the 99,883 active and locatable developers, 39,395 publish an email and a further 21,192 publish only a LinkedIn profile. Counting email alone would understate the reachable pool by 54%.
15% 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 330,000+ public GitHub profiles indexed by StarHunt as of October 2026. A developer counts as reachable when their public profile carries an email address or a LinkedIn URL, and as active when they pushed code in the last ninety days. 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 October 2026. Reachable means the public profile carries an email address, a LinkedIn URL, or both. Active means code was pushed in the last ninety days. Locatable means the profile's free-text location resolves to a country. 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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