Canada Job Bank Postings × LMIA Demand

See where Canadian employers are hiring and where they are getting approval to hire temporary foreign workers, occupation by occupation. This Actor joins two official Government of Canada open datasets:

• Job Bank job postings (monthly), published by ESDC
• Positive LMIA Employers List (quarterly), published by ESDC

For every NOC 2021 occupation and province (or city), you get current postings, vacancies, a median hourly wage, and positive LMIA approvals side by side. No scraping and no logins: only the official open data files, under the Open Government Licence – Canada.

What you get

Occupation summary (default): one row per occupation and province (or city). Example values are from a real run: cooks in Ontario, August 2026 postings vs. LMIAs 2025Q2–2026Q1.

Field	Example
nocCode / occupation	63200 / Cooks
province / provinceCode / city	Ontario / ON / Toronto (city only when grouped by city)
jobBankMonths	["2026-08"]
jobPostings / jobVacancies	638 / 846
medianHourlyWage / wageSampleSize	20.00 / 634
pctPermanent (also pctFullTime, pctViaPlacementAgency)	57.7 (permanent)
lmiaQuarters	["2025Q2","2025Q3","2025Q4","2026Q1"]
lmiaApprovedPositions / lmiaEmployers	1229 / 732
lmiaMainStreams	["Low Wage", "High Wage", "Permanent Resident Only"]
lmiaPositionsPer100Vacancies	145.3

Individual postings: each Job Bank posting (job title, NOC, first posting date, vacancies, city, postal FSA, employment type and term, education and experience level, salary text and an estimated hourly wage), annotated with LMIA approvals for the same occupation in the same province and city.

Export as JSON, CSV or Excel, call it through the Apify API, or schedule it monthly.

Typical uses

• Immigration and workforce research: which occupations and regions rely most on the TFW program compared with how much they advertise locally.
• Recruiters and HR teams: benchmark posted wages and demand by occupation and city.
• Job seekers and advisers: find occupations and cities where employers are both advertising and obtaining LMIAs, then search Job Bank itself for current openings.
• Journalists and policy analysts: track LMIA reliance against local job advertising over time.

How matching works

The Job Bank open file does not include employer names, so postings are matched to LMIA approvals by occupation (NOC 2021) and place, not by employer. A posting row tells you "employers in this occupation and province received N positive LMIAs recently". It does not say this particular employer holds an LMIA. For employer-level LMIA data, use our Canada LMIA Employers List Actor.

Hourly wages are estimates, taken from the midpoint of the posted range and normalised from yearly, monthly, weekly or bi-weekly pay using the posted hours (40 h/week if none).

FAQ

How current is the data? ESDC publishes each month's Job Bank file early in the following month, and the LMIA list quarterly. The Actor always uses the latest files published.

Does it include employer names or contact details? No. The Job Bank open data has no employer names, and this Actor publishes no personal information. Locations are limited to city, province and the first three characters of the postal code.

Is a positive LMIA a job offer? No. It means ESDC confirmed an employer may hire a temporary foreign worker for a position. It is not a job opening, a hire, or a guarantee of anything.

Can I get live postings? This Actor uses the official monthly open-data release rather than scraping jobbank.gc.ca, so it trails the live site by about a month.

Important notes

• Information only, not legal or immigration advice. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Government of Canada.
• Don't use this data for unsolicited commercial messages; Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) and privacy laws still apply.
• To report a problem or request a correction, open an issue on this Actor's Issues tab.

Source and licence

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Sources: Employment and Social Development Canada, Job Postings Advertised on Canada's National Job Bank Website and Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP): Positive Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) Employers List, open.canada.ca.