Canada

There are about 5,241 active tech roles in Canada on Feeny right now, spread across 732 companies. These are live listings we scrape and refresh, not a cached number that sat stale for a quarter. Toronto carries most of the volume, but Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, and Ottawa each add their own weight. If a role shows here, the company had it open when we last checked.

Toronto is the clear center of gravity and where most of the 6 Canadian cities we track send their volume. Montreal ranks high on the strength of its AI research scene around Mila, and Vancouver plus the Waterloo corridor add real depth beyond the top spot. Calgary, Mississauga, and Ottawa fill out the rest, with Ottawa punching up thanks to Shopify. The hiring is more distributed than most people expect for a country this size.

Cohere put Toronto on the map as a genuine AI player, and it hires alongside a deep fintech bench in Wealthsimple and Neo Financial. Commerce infrastructure runs through Lightspeed, and Shopify anchors Ottawa. On the research side, Mila keeps Montreal in the conversation for ML talent. The names span frontier AI, consumer finance, and platform engineering rather than clustering in one lane.

AI and ML work has moved from a side note to a real pillar here, driven by Cohere and the Montreal research crowd. Fintech is the other big draw, with Wealthsimple and Neo Financial building consumer finance at scale. Beyond that, platform and backend engineering carries a lot of the day-to-day demand across commerce and SaaS companies. It is a market where an ML or infrastructure background travels well.

Canada gives you a real tech scene without the intensity or the rents of the Bay Area, and the AI research culture in Toronto and Montreal is a genuine draw for people who want depth over hype. Salaries run lower than US equivalents once you convert, and Toronto and Vancouver housing is expensive by any honest measure. What you get in return is a stable, well-supported market with strong universities feeding it. For a lot of engineers that trade is worth making.

Canada is one of the most immigration-friendly tech markets in the world, and it shows in the process. Express Entry gives skilled workers a points-based path to permanent residence, and the Global Talent Stream can turn around work permits for eligible tech roles in about two weeks. Clear pathways to PR mean relocation here is a real plan, not a long shot. If you are a skilled foreign engineer, this is one of the easier countries to actually move to.