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The top North American cities by number of tech talent jobs, as well as their percent change in tech talent jobs from 2018 to 2023.
Data is for 2023 and comes from CBRE's Scoring Tech Talent 2024 report.
Tech talent is defined as "a group of highly skilled workers in more than 20 technology-oriented occupations driving innovation across all industry sectors" and generally refers to technical roles, not positions in the tech industry.
For example, software developer who works for a health-care company is considered tech talent.
The San Francisco Bay Area (436,740 tech talent workers) and the New York Metropolitan Area (389,290 workers) remain the two largest tech talent markets in 2023.
The Bay Area and Ottawa also tied for the most concentrated tech talent markets, with tech workers comprising 12.3% of total employment in these markets.
Canadian cities experienced significant overall and relative increases in tech talent between 2018 and 2023.
Canadian cities had the highest tech job growth rates among North American cities, with tech talent in Calgary growing by 78.1%, 51.7% in Ottawa, 44% in Toronto, and 30.7% in Vancouver.
Toronto added 95,900 tech talent jobs, the most out of all markets.