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Hiring expanded from 81 roles across 16 companies to 117 roles across 21 companies.

The Hiring Index (a composite measure of roles and hiring breadth) rose from 127.5 to 160.5, while the Expansion Rate (share of tracked companies currently hiring) increased from 13.8% to 17.9%. The median roles per hiring company fell from 5.0 to 4.0.

The top four employers still account for about 55% of all live roles. Hiring broadened, but remains concentrated at the top.

What Changed

The main change this week was not just volume, but participation.

The market moved from 16 hiring companies to 21. This was not just a volume spike. PAL Aerospace, Sequence Bio, Kerby-Reid, NDITIVE, and Granville Biomedical broadened the hiring base, while the usual leaders stayed active.

Spellbook, CoLab Software, Kraken Robotics, and trophi.ai account for 64 of 117 live roles, up from about 52% of the market last week to about 55% now. The raw numbers show growth, but not how that growth is structured

Market Structure

This week’s data shows a clear three-layer hiring structure:

  • Core roles (Engineering, Sales, Product): ~62% of the market

  • Execution roles (Operations, Marketing, Finance): ~30%

  • Support roles (Customer Success, People, Legal): <10%

Core roles still dominate, but this week’s growth was not limited to them.

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What It Means

Hiring broadened, but the market remains top-heavy.
More companies entered the active set, but a small group still drives the most visible demand.

Growth is no longer limited to core technical hiring.
This week’s expansion came from both core roles (engineering, sales) and execution roles (marketing, operations).

The larger market is not an easier one for early-career candidates.
The active set still skews toward experienced talent, with roughly 56 senior roles and only 7 junior roles.

The expansion was not confined to a single sector.
Enterprise, aerospace, consulting, and applied hardware companies all contributed to this week’s expansion.

Function Mix

Function

Current Roles

Prior Roles

Delta

Share of Total

Engineering

35

22

+13

30%

Sales

29

18

+11

25%

Operations

21

17

+4

18%

Product & Design

9

8

+1

8%

Marketing

8

2

+6

7%

Finance

6

3

+3

5%

People & Legal

5

4

+1

4%

Customer Success

4

7

-3

3%

Engineering and sales remain the center of gravity, combining for over half of all roles.

The strongest growth came from both core and execution layers:

  • Core: Engineering (+13), Sales (+11)

  • Execution: Marketing (+6), Operations (+4)

This pattern typically signals companies moving beyond product development into revenue and delivery.

The layer breakdown makes the shift clearer:

Layer

Change from Last Week

Market Concentation

Core (Engineering/Sales)

+25

62%

Execution (Ops, Marketing, Finance)

+13

30%

Support

-2

8%

This is the first week where execution-layer hiring grew fast enough to signal a shift beyond pure product expansion.

Company Insights

  • Spellbook remains the largest single hiring signal in the market, with 21 live roles spanning sales, product, engineering, marketing, customer success, finance, recruiting, and security.

  • CoLab Software remains one of the clearest scale stories, with 19 roles spread across engineering, product, finance, marketing, and multiple sales segments.

  • Kraken Robotics remains one of the strongest local industrial-tech signals, with demand across software, firmware, project management, operations, field service, and talent.

  • Verafin Nasdaq contributes enterprise-grade demand across legal, sales, customer success, project management, product marketing, and machine-learning infrastructure.

  • Sequence Bio, Kerby-Reid, NDITIVE, and Granville Biomedical are small in raw count, but broaden the market mix.

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Full Roles List

Avalon Holographics

Big Land Networks Ltd

BreatheSuite

CoLab Software

Compusult Limited

Granville Biomedical Inc.

Kerby-Reid Inc.

Kraken Robotics

NDITIVE

PAL Aerospace

Pingram.io

Sequence Bio Inc.

SmartICE Monitoring & Information Inc.

Solace Power Inc.

Spellbook

Verafin Nasdaq Canada Inc.

Verlo Finance

Virtual Marine Inc.

Vish Limited

Vision33 Inc.

trophi.ai

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