Winnipeg tech salaries, 2026

I'm in Winnipeg, so I'd love to give you a Winnipeg number from job postings. There aren't enough of them. Here's what the government data says instead, labelled for what it is.

Salary figures for Winnipeg

For software work in Winnipeg, the government figures are: Job Bank median $96K, StatCan average offered wage $90K (Table 14-10-0444-01) for software engineers and designers (NOC 21231). Job Bank median $85K, StatCan average offered wage $82K (Table 14-10-0444-01) for software developers and programmers (NOC 21232). All levels, survey data, not job postings.

Government survey, Winnipeg. All levels, survey data, not job postings.

Occupation	Job Bank median	StatCan average offered wage
Computer and information systems managers (NOC 20012)	$123K	$106K
Data scientists (NOC 21211)	$94K	$78K
Cybersecurity specialists (NOC 21220)	$93K	$89K
Software engineers and designers (NOC 21231)	$96K	$90K
Software developers and programmers (NOC 21232)	$85K	$82K
Information systems testing technicians (NOC 22222)	$71K	No figure
Graphic designers and illustrators (NOC 52120)	$55K	$58K

Job Bank (ESDC) median wages by occupation and economic region, reference period 2023-2024, times 2,080 hours. Statistics Canada Table 14-10-0444-01, average offered hourly wage on job vacancies, 2025-07 to 2026-04 (4 quarters), times 2,080 hours. Both cover every experience level and every employer. They are not job postings and are never mixed with the posted ranges.

Cite: Phil Mosher, Canadian tech salary data, baselinetalent.xyz, data as of October 29, 2026. CC BY 4.0.

These cover every experience level and every employer, so a senior job will usually pay above them. There's no posted range for this city on purpose. The Canada-wide page has posted ranges for the country as a whole, which is a different place and a different kind of number.

Why there are no posted ranges for Winnipeg

Manitoba doesn't require employers to put pay in job postings. Ontario has since January 1, 2026, and B.C. since November 2023.

In the October 29, 2026 data, Winnipeg had 6 tech postings with a stated range, from 2 employers. A cell needs 10 postings from 5 employers before it gets a number, so every Winnipeg cell is empty.

That's 6 postings for every tech role and level combined. I'll (typically) defend Winnipeg to anyone, but I'm not going to make up a number for it.

The market

Winnipeg is a smaller market where people often want to stay local.

• 15.1% of Winnipeg workers mostly worked from home in May 2024, the lowest of the six cities.
• Manitoba raised its payroll levy exemption to $2.5M on 2026-01-01. 2.15% applies only when payroll exceeds $5M.

Cost of living

Average 2-bedroom rent was $1,571 in October 2025 (vacancy 2.8%).

How this was built

Government figures come straight from Job Bank and Statistics Canada, with the table IDs above. Nothing is estimated or adjusted.

How every number here is built, tested and checked against government data: how the salary data is built.

If you're hiring in Winnipeg and you post a range, you'll be one of very few employers here who do.