Toronto Added 80000 Tech Jobs in Canada in Last Five Years
26 Jul 2019
Toronto, the pride of Ontario, was ranked as one of the top three cities in the USA and Canada for technology workers. Based on the Scoring of Tech Talent Report by CBRE, Toronto added an enormous 80100 tech jobs in Canada during the last five years.
This report has given a rank to 50 tech markets based in USA and Canada on 13 unique ways of measuring like talent supply, tech degrees, as well as job growth. Toronto secured the third rank in the report and San Francisco Bay Area was top with Seattle taking the second position.
Toronto actually gave a better performance compared to New York City, Washington, D.C., and Austin, Texas in the overall rank. Toronto had the increase of 54 percent in tech jobs thereby recording the fastest pace of growth of talents in these 50 tech markets.
As per the report Other Canadian cities like Vancouver 12th place, Montreal in the 13th place and Ottawa, 19th place gave a good performance.
Technology jobs and immigration programs in Canada
Canada has activated major immigration programs like the Provincial Nominee Programs and Express Entry to meet the increasing demand for specialist workers for doing tech jobs in Canada. Last year the draws in Express Entry issued the record number of invitations benefiting the IT professionals. The common jobs of candidates invited in these draws were:
Software designers and engineers,
Information systems consultants and analysts,
Interactive media developers and Computer programmers,
Many provincial nominee programs (PNP) also offer tech-specific job options. Ontario is the latest addition to hold the tech draws.
Tech jobs are a regular feature in the In-Demand Occupation List of Manitoba. MPNP recently reduced language requirements applicable to the computer network technicians to CLB 5, making the obtaining of provincial nomination easier.
Saskatchewan added interactive media developers and computer programmers to the list of top demand occupations.
British Columbia conducts its Tech Pilot draws for selecting candidates having the job offer from a local employer in 29 tech-related occupations.
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