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Ottawa

Ottawa hiring activity from Hacker News "Who's Hiring" threads. Located in Ontario.

Postings · May 2026
1
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingJun '25 → May '26
0 low3-mo avg: 00.6667 high
Rank · CA
#5of 5 CA cities
Remote-friendly · This month
100%+10 pts vs CA
Share of CA postings
2.3%1 of 89
3-Mo momentum
Flat—
§ 00Hiring Volume

Climbing faster than 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
464since 2011 · 182 months
0% YoY2025 vs 2024
23
'22
2
'23
2
'24
2
'25
1
'26
All-time total
464182 months
↑ Best year
201891
↓ Worst full year
20232
Latest full year
20250% YoY
§ 01Compensation

Senior pay disclosure is still thin in Ottawa.

Median bands from the 3 Ottawa postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.

Range by seniority · 2023–PresentSenior: not enough disclosed pay · n=2 · need 10
Junior— n=1
Senior— n=2

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

§ 02Work Model

62 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
33%
−62 ptsvs CA · 95%
Remote
0%
Hybrid
33%
Onsite-only
67%
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share is cooling off in '22
RemoteHybridOnsite
'13
88% rem.
'15
8% rem.
'16
11% rem.
'17
33% rem.
'18
35% rem.
'19
66% rem.
'20
45% rem.
'21
93% rem.
'22
83% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Ottawa vs CA
Ottawa33% remote-friendly
CA average95% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature

Go tops Ottawa's skill mentions over the last 12 months.

Keywords counted across 3 Ottawa hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.

#01
Top SkillGo
1mentions
Mentions · Last 12 Months
JUN '2533% of postingsMAY '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01Go—1
02PHP—1
03Ruby—1

33% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through May 2026)

Role mix · Ottawa vs CAShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
OttawaCA baseline
Data Ml
under-indexed
0%
13%
−13 pts0.0×
Design
under-indexed
0%
3%
−3 pts0.0×
Engineering
over-indexed
100%
63%
+37 pts1.6×
Executive
match
0%
3%
−3 pts0.0×
Finance Accounting
match
0%
0%
−0 pts0.0×
Healthcare
match
0%
0%
0 pts0.0×
Legal Compliance
match
0%
0%
−0 pts0.0×
Marketing
under-indexed
0%
3%
−3 pts0.0×
Operations
match
0%
1%
−1 pts0.0×
Other
under-indexed
0%
4%
−4 pts0.0×
Product
under-indexed
0%
6%
−6 pts0.0×
Sales
match
0%
3%
−3 pts0.0×
About this page

Ottawa 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.