New York has more tech workers than the San Francisco Bay Area for the first time since CBRE started counting 13 years ago.
The property firm’s Scoring Tech Talent 2026 report, subtitled “AI Realignment Underway”, puts the New York metro at 394,300 tech talent jobs in 2025 against 375,730 in the Bay Area.
New York did not win that by growing fastest. Between 2022 and 2025 it added 30,640 tech jobs. Over the same period the Bay Area lost 23,900.
San Francisco is still ranked first
The headcount and the ranking are two different measurements, and only one of them changed.
