12. Indianapolis

Increase In Labor Pool, 2011-2016: 42.3 percent

Tech Jobs, 2016: 35,010

The Indiana capital enjoys lower-than-average costs of living and doing business, as well as a 38-percent jump in the number of conferred technology degrees from 2011 to 2015. Meanwhile, annual technology salaries grew 7.7 percent to an average of nearly $78,000. The millennial population grew 3.6 percent in the first half of this decade.