As 2010 comes to a close, industry advocates TechAmerica took a closer look at regional jobs numbers from last year based on data released by the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Yes, you read that correct: 2009. This is most available data on regional technology job numbers from Uncle Sam.

New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area were the two leading metro areas for technology jobs last year, but D.C., Boston, Dallas, Chicago, Houston and Los Angeles all had large numbers of technology jobs.

Here's a breakdown of city data from largest to smallest:

Bay Area/Silicon Valley: 394,300
New York: 319,00
Washington D.C.: 293,000
Boston: 219,800
Dallas-Fort Worth: 174,800
Los Angeles: 170,00
Chicago: 161,800
Seattle: 145,300
Houston: 127,800
Philadelphia: 134,200
Atlanta: 123,600
San Diego: 111,000
Minneapolis-St. Paul: 98,600
Orange County, CA: 95,000
Detroit: 95,000
Denver: 88,900
Phoenix: 83,700
Portland: 65,700
Austin: 65,400
Baltimore: 76,800
Raleigh-Durham: 72,200
Miami-Ft. Lauderdale: 67,800
Kansas City: 64,600
Tampa-St. Petersburg: 53,900
St. Louis: 52,000
Pittsburgh: 48,200
Orlando: 44,300
Columbus: 43,600
Sacramento: 39,700
Huntsville: 36,300
Salt Lake City: 35,600
Palm Bay-Melbourne: 24,00
Oklahoma City: 18,300

As far as 2010, Moody Analytics has found the U.S. added 47,400 jobs. Similarly, technology research analysts Foote Partners has found over 45,000 technology jobs were added between June and November this year with the management and technical consulting or services sector made up 57 percent of that number at 25,800.

Foote Partners, as stated in a December 6 statement, is sticking to its prediction from December 2009 that technology job growth in 2010 and well in to 2011 will not have any "meaningful recovery."