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 · May 2026+32%3-mo momentum
35
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingJun '25 → May '26
7.6667 low3-mo avg: 1928.3333 high
Rank · CA
#1of 5 CA cities
Remote-friendly · This month
77%−13 pts vs CA
Share of CA postings
79.5%35 of 89
3-Mo momentum
Rising+32% 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 yearPeak year
All-time postings
6,342since 2011 · 182 months
+197% YoY2025 vs 2024
639
'22
189
'23
75
'24
223
'25
84
'26
All-time total
6,342182 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 21 Toronto postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.

Range by seniority · 2023–PresentSenior: not enough disclosed pay · n=7 · need 10
Junior— n=2
Senior— n=7
Staff+— n=2

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 · 95%
Remote
27%
Hybrid
62%
Onsite-only
10%
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share is cooling off in '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
79% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Toronto vs CA
Toronto90% remote-friendly
CA average95% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature

Financial services meets a growing AI research ecosystem.

Keywords counted across 248 Toronto hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.

#01
Top SkillGo
79mentions↑ 26%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
JUN '2532% of postingsMAY '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01Go+26%79
02Python+12%70
03Redis—68
04Cockroachdb—62
05Ruby on Rails−11%43
06Terraform+102%39
07Ruby—36
08Figma+96%33
09PostgreSQL+45%28
10React Native+45%28
Movers · 12-month change
What’s moving
Trending↗
  • 01CI/CD+440%
  • 02NLP+378%
  • 03Next.js+232%
  • 04Rust+232%
Cooling↘
  • 01Make−82%
  • 02React−54%
  • 03Amazon Web Services (AWS)−38%
  • 04Machine Learning−30%

67% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through May 2026)

Role mix · Toronto vs CAShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
TorontoCA baseline
Data Ml
match
15%
13%
+2 pts1.1×
Design
match
4%
3%
+1 pts1.2×
Engineering
match
61%
63%
−2 pts1.0×
Executive
match
2%
3%
−1 pts0.8×
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
3%
3%
+0 pts1.0×
Operations
match
1%
1%
0 pts1.0×
Other
match
4%
4%
+0 pts1.0×
Product
match
6%
6%
−0 pts1.0×
Sales
match
3%
3%
+0 pts1.1×
About this page

Toronto postings are extracted from monthly HN Who's Hiring? threads using location string matching against a curated city dictionary. Toronto postings include the broader Greater Toronto Area (Mississauga, Markham, Waterloo corridor).

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.