The information displayed on this dashboard has been extracted from 61,758 online postings for jobs in Ottawa, collected in the period from Oct 2024 to Sep 2025. Jobs in Ottawa amounted to 7.5% of all jobs in Ontario. All Ottawa job demand information displayed here is extracted from the job postings automatically, with an accuracy of at least 90%. A small error margin of 10% or less is possible, mostly due to the ambiguity of the information that employers provide in their job postings.

15,855 of all postings for Ottawa jobs listed a salary. The average salary advertised in them was $55,685 to $66,804.

The most advertised job categories in Ottawa were Retail salespersons;  Cooks;  and Retail and wholesale trade managers.

The most in-demand required skills that employers listed when advertising jobs in Ottawa were Teamwork (required by 57.2% of all Ottawa jobs) , Communication skills (50.2%) , and Customer Service (34.3%) .

Employers who advertised job openings in Ottawa included Ottawa Catholic School Board,  Ottawa-Carleton Education Network (OCENET),  and CHEO / Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario.

Ottawa, the capital city of Canada, is the one of the largest cities in Canada by population and the second largest city in Ontario. Ottawa is the largest of 31 municipalities that make up the Greater Ottawa-Gatineau Area - the fourth largest metropolitan area in Canada. With two-thirds of the total population and 76 percent of the jobs, Ottawa serves as the region's economic engine and main generator of growth. The percentage of employed people working in Ottawa varies among each of the adjacent municipalities but is higher in the municipalities with direct freeway access to Ottawa.