MogiCanada Backend Engineer Job Postings Fall
Job postings for backend engineers in Canada decreased by thirty-two percent last week.
By Felix Hartmann, Mogi Research · Oct 16, 2026
Backend engineer job postings in Canada fell by thirty-two percent in the week ending October sixteenth. This change is part of a broader decrease across the United States, which saw a nineteen percent drop in postings for the same role. The total number of new backend engineer postings across all countries also fell by nineteen percent.
This decrease in Canada may be due to employers posting fewer roles. It could also reflect a change in how job boards are crawled. The data for India showed no change, with postings remaining steady.
In contrast, France saw a rise in backend engineer job postings, increasing by twenty-five percent. This indicates different market dynamics at play in different countries, with Canada experiencing a fall while France saw growth.
The numbers
Which countries saw the largest increase in backend engineer jobs last week?
| Name | Last 7 days | The 7 before | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 17 | 25 | -32% |
| France | 15 | 12 | +25% |
| India | 45 | 45 | +0% |
| United Kingdom | 15 | 19 | -21% |
| United States | 77 | 95 | -19% |
Top states: ON, Canada (4), NB, Canada (1), QC, Canada (1)
Top roles: Backend Engineer (17)
Counts are job postings, not hires, from company career sites that Mogi's crawl found. Compares the 7 days to 2026-10-16 with the 7 days before them. Covers all countries, all states, Backend Engineer. Employers with fewer than five postings in the last eight weeks are grouped together and left out of the rankings. The company details come from the crawl's company profiles, where the crawl has one.
Written by Felix Hartmann of Mogi Research, with AI from the table above. Every figure in it comes from that table.
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