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Montreal

Montreal hiring activity from Hacker News "Who's Hiring" threads. Located in Quebec.

Postings · May 2026+100%3-mo momentum
4
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingJun '25 → May '26
0 low3-mo avg: 13 high
Rank · CA
#2of 5 CA cities
Remote-friendly · This month
25%−65 pts vs CA
Share of CA postings
9.1%4 of 89
3-Mo momentum
Rising+100% vs prior 3 mo
§ 00Hiring Volume

Pulling back alongside the Canada baseline.

Annual totals for the last five years — every year shown is complete except 2026, hatched because it is still in progress.

Full yearPartial yearPeak year
All-time postings
1,435since 2011 · 182 months
−4% YoY2025 vs 2024
98
'22
35
'23
25
'24
24
'25
5
'26
All-time total
1,435182 months
↑ Best year
2019253
↓ Worst full year
201216
Latest full year
2025−4% YoY
§ 01Compensation

Not enough disclosed pay yet.

Too few Montreal postings disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present to chart compensation bands.

No postings disclosed pay
Compensation bands appear once a seniority level clears the reporting floor. Check back as Montreal accumulates more disclosed-pay postings.
§ 02Work Model

18 points less remote-friendly than the Canada baseline.

Trailing-12-month split, plus the yearly remote / hybrid / onsite mix all the way back.

Remote-friendly · Trailing 12 months
78%
−18 ptsvs CA · 95%
Remote
0%
Hybrid
78%
Onsite-only
22%
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share is climbing back in '25
RemoteHybridOnsite
'11
77% rem.
'12
50% rem.
'13
94% rem.
'14
73% rem.
'15
31% rem.
'16
60% rem.
'17
22% rem.
'18
34% rem.
'19
50% rem.
'20
66% rem.
'21
95% rem.
'22
99% rem.
'23
97% rem.
'24
92% rem.
'25
96% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Montreal vs CA
Montreal78% remote-friendly
CA average95% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature

Python tops Montreal's skill mentions over the last 12 months.

Keywords counted across 18 Montreal hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.

#01
Top SkillPython
8mentions↓ 2%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
JUN '2544% of postingsMAY '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01Python−2%8
02Machine Learning−8%6
03Go+144%4
04JavaScript−19%4
05UX/UI+22%4
06Substack—3
07Medium—2
08CI/CD—1
09Figma—1
10React−39%1
Movers · 12-month change
What’s moving
Trending↗
  • 01Go+144%
  • 02UX/UI+22%
Cooling↘
  • 01React−39%
  • 02JavaScript−19%
  • 03Machine Learning−8%
  • 04Python−2%

78% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through May 2026)

Role mix · Montreal vs CAShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
MontrealCA baseline
Data Ml
over-indexed
23%
13%
+10 pts1.8×
Design
match
4%
3%
+0 pts1.1×
Engineering
match
58%
63%
−5 pts0.9×
Executive
match
4%
3%
+1 pts1.3×
Finance Accounting
match
0%
0%
−0 pts0.0×
Healthcare
match
0%
0%
0 pts0.0×
Legal Compliance
match
0%
0%
−0 pts0.0×
Marketing
match
1%
3%
−2 pts0.4×
Operations
match
4%
1%
+2 pts2.9×
Other
under-indexed
0%
4%
−4 pts0.0×
Product
match
6%
6%
+1 pts1.1×
Sales
match
0%
3%
−3 pts0.0×
About this page

Montreal postings are extracted from monthly HN Who's Hiring? threads using location string matching against a curated city dictionary.

Caveats
  • ·Trust annual totals over single months — monthly counts can be small, and partial years (hatched) cover only part of the calendar.
  • ·Compensation bands use a trailing 3-year window; levels appear only when n ≥ 10.
  • ·Comparisons against the CA baseline use the same time window on both sides — trailing 12 months for work model, the past 3 years for role mix.