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I've seen two surveys in the past week, one where Detroit ranked second in IT job growth and this one by Forbes that ranked Detroit 9th.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joelkotkin/2017/03/16/technolog...

Detroit didn't rank here because the cities population is below a million. But with the suburbs Detroit metro is 5 million and I believe that doesn't include Ann Arbor which just ranked as a top startup hub. So this particular survey is a little misleading.

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Not sure what the method was, but Raleigh and Durham are both individually smaller than Detroit, and the metro area is less than half the size of the Detroit metro.

Second in IT job growth is completely due to the auto industry, both the Big 3 and all of the suppliers. While they are good jobs, cost of living here is pretty cheap so jobs are only good paying relative to COL in those other areas (and it's mostly due to the vast sprawl of suburbs like you mentioned).

It does not include Ann Arbor, but Ann Arbor is a real small city compared to anything else that would pop up in those surveys.

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