Duck Creek Technologies leased 25,000 square feet last year at 22 Boston Wharf Road in Boston's Seaport District. Image courtesy SGA.

The number of college graduates with tech degrees in Greater Boston rose 61 percent between 2012 and 2017, and the region ranks seventh out of 50 North American markets in CBRE’s annual tech talent scorecard.

Greater Boston ranked fourth for the largest pool of tech graduates, with a tech labor pool of 160,000, representing 5.8 percent of the overall job pool. The region trailed New York, Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles.

According to CBRE data, Greater Boston has produced almost 34,000 more tech graduates than the market employs. Boston ranked fifth nationwide in gender diversity in the tech industry.

Tech companies have signed some of the largest commercial real estate leases of the past year, including Google’s 638,000-square-foot lease in Kendall Square, Verizon’s 440,000-square-foot lease at The Hub on Causeway and Wayfair’s leases for 695,000 square feet at two locations in Back Bay.

San Francisco, Seattle and Toronto led this year’s rankings.