National survey: Women in tech will find fertile job hunting in Provo-Orem

If you’re a woman in a technology field, you may want to look to the Provo-Orem metro for a place to work. That’s according to a new study from coworkingcafe.com, a website dedicated to flexible working spaces.

The report, “Tech & the City: 2025’s Best Places in the U.S. for Women in Tech,” found that the Utah County cities showed a 5 percent increase in the number of female tech workers over a year ago and a whopping 140 percent increase since the company’s first survey in 2019. That places Provo-Orem second in the nation for women in tech jobs growth.

For the study, coworkingcafe.com analyzed over 200 metro areas across 10 metrics, including the share of female workers in the local tech workforce, their earnings, unemployment, health insurance coverage rates and more. The metros were divided into three population brackets — large, mid-sized and small.

Women working in tech in the Provo-Orem area are also paid well, according to the study. Average earnings for a woman tech employee in the area is $74,569 — making it the 20th-highest salary among the 200 metros surveyed for the report. Between 2019 and 2023, female tech earnings increased by 54 percent — the third-highest among mid-sized metros.

“The Provo-Orem metro area made great strides in the span of a year, becoming highly supportive of women in the tech scene,” study authors said. “The MSA climbed from the 40th position to the third in 2025.”

In the Provo-Orem area, 19 percent of the total tech workers are women, up 5 percent from last year. Twenty-nine out of 1,000 jobs are in the tech sector in Provo-Orem, which places the area sixth for this metric.

In another important metric, the survey found that 68 percent of female workers have health insurance coverage in the area — the second-highest share in the mid-sized metros bracket, behind only Madison, Wisconsin.

Nationally, San Jose, California, took the first spot for women in tech among large metros, while Durham, North Carolina, and Lexington Park, Maryland, ranked first among mid-sized and small metros, respectively.

The full coworkingcafe.com report can be accessed at https://www.coworkingcafe.com/blog/best-metros-for-women-in-tech/.