City ProfileToronto · Ontario · CA

Toronto

The leading Canadian market and one of the fastest-growing in the index through the early 2020s. Toronto's hiring profile is anchored by financial services and enterprise software, with a growing AI/ML layer tied to the University of Toronto research cluster.

Postings · Aug 2026−65%3-mo momentum
5
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingSep '25 → Aug '26
7.6667 low3-mo avg · 2028.3333 high
Rank · CA
#1of 5 CA cities
Remote-friendly · This month
100%0 pts vs CA
Share of CA postings
71.4%5 of 45
3-Mo momentum
Falling−65% vs prior 3 mo
§ 00Hiring Volume

Canada's top market by a wide margin; outpaced Vancouver and Montreal consistently.

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

Full yearPartial yearAll-time peak
All-time postings
6,365since 2011 · 185 months
+197% YoY2025 vs 2024
639
'22
189
'23
75
'24
223
'25
107
'26
All-time total
6,365185 months
↑ Best year
2017817
↓ Worst full year
202475
Latest full year
2025+197% YoY
§ 01Compensation

Senior pay disclosure is still thin in Toronto.

Median bands from the 14 Toronto postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.

Range by seniority · 2023–PresentSenior: not enough disclosed pay · n=4 · need 10
Junior— n=2
Senior— n=4
Staff+— n=3

Bar = p25 to p75 · tick on Senior = median. Junior & Senior & Staff+ shown hatched below the 10-sample floor.

§ 02Work Model

6 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
90%
−6 ptsvs CA · 96%
Remote
28%
Hybrid
62%
Onsite-only
10%
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share held the line through '24–'26
RemoteHybridOnsite
'11
20% rem.
'12
38% rem.
'13
90% rem.
'14
42% rem.
'15
45% rem.
'16
20% rem.
'17
22% rem.
'18
29% rem.
'19
32% rem.
'20
71% rem.
'21
89% rem.
'22
98% rem.
'23
95% rem.
'24
84% rem.
'25
87% rem.
'26
83% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Toronto vs CA
Toronto90% remote-friendly
CA average96% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature

Financial services meets a growing AI research ecosystem.

Keywords counted across 223 Toronto hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.

#01
Top SkillGo
65mentions↓ 5%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
SEP '2529% of postingsAUG '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01Go−5%65
02Python+2%57
03Redis+67%51
04Cockroachdb+47%45
05PostgreSQL+414%37
06Ruby on Rails+5%36
07Figma+162%33
08React Native—33
09Terraform+48%32
10TypeScript+48%32
Movers · 12-month change
What’s moving
Trending↗
  • 01Next.js+957%
  • 02PostgreSQL+414%
  • 03Cloudflare+400%
  • 04Node.js+197%
Cooling↘
  • 01Amazon Web Services (AWS)−68%
  • 02Make−57%
  • 03Machine Learning−40%
  • 04Kubernetes−10%

69% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through Aug 2026)

Role mix · Toronto vs CAShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
TorontoCA baseline
Data Ml
match
15%
13%
+2 pts1.2×
Design
match
4%
4%
+0 pts1.1×
Engineering
match
60%
62%
−2 pts1.0×
Executive
match
2%
3%
−0 pts0.9×
Finance Accounting
match
0%
0%
−0 pts0.8×
Healthcare
match
0%
0%
0 pts0.0×
Legal Compliance
match
0%
0%
0 pts1.2×
Marketing
match
4%
4%
+0 pts1.1×
Operations
match
1%
1%
0 pts1.0×
Other
match
4%
4%
0 pts1.0×
Product
match
6%
6%
−0 pts0.9×
Sales
match
3%
3%
+0 pts1.1×