Hope this information will help all new immigrants and the ones planning to come to Canada. With Canadian IT market warming up and with good salaries as indicated you guys should have no problem in integrating into the job market and be productive citizens of Canada. Hope you guys can let the crying/name calling/bad-foul mouthing/attempt(s) to slip in (the good news from India into Canada in order to demotivate Canadians) to Non-Techies like us.

Definitely with these types of salaries each techie should be able to buy a semidetached house of atleast 330K to start with and also 2 new cars one being a Honda CRV and another could be a Toyota Prius.

Hope more techies come to Canada and share the good times as indicated and I feel that there are many a techies on this board who would find this salary information to be LOWER than what they are making and could be able to help new immigrant for jobs within their organization. I do hope they will NOT slip in the curve ball by attaching riders like EQ or soft-skills or North American work experience as most of the new immigrants in IT are from South of Border.

I strongly suggest all the new immigrants, would be immigrants or potential immigrants to contact all the techies on this board (whom you would have identified by now)to help you land a job on the salary scales as mentioned or even better.

As times are getting better for Techies it is time the established techies who have been contributing immensely on this board should Do Something Construtive and share your spoils with new immigrant techies.

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This info is from ComputerWorld Canada, January 26,2010 issue page 13.

Hot Skills Cool Jobs:

Top 3 Certified IT skills for 2010:

Red Hat Certified Engineer
Cisco IP Contact Center Express Specialist
GIAC Certified Incident Handler
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Top 3 Non-certified IT skills for 2010:

SAP SRM(supplier relationship management)
Linux
SAP SCM(supply chain management)
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Most frequently requested specific skills set of 2009:

SQl programming
Oracle Database
Java development
.NET programming
Unix development and administration
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15 Hot Jobs for 2010:

1.Architects:
DB architects: CAD 72K
Business architects: CAD 120K
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2.Business Analysts:
50K to 100K +
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3.Business Intelligence Analysts:
65K to 93K

more information available at http://www.rht.com/salarycenter" rel="nofollow">LINK
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4.Data Analysts/Report writers:
60K to 85K

emphasis on business analysis also for report writers, report developers with IFRS skills.
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5.Help Desk Analysts:
Tier I: 34K to 44K
Tier II: 41K to 54K
Tier III: 55K to 71K
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6.Network Administrators and Analysts:

64K to 75K
systems and security administrators and NOT web or database administrators.
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7.Network Administrators:
55K to 73K
Cisco network admin, Linux/Unix admin, VoIP admin and Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vistar or Server 2008 can add further than the above base salaries for network and telecom postions.
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8.Project Managers:
78K to 105K

application development:78K to 90K
Infrastructure:81K to 93K
others upto 105K.
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9.Systems Administrators:
54K to 77K
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10.Systems Analysts:
63K to 91K

specialised skills can fetch additional pay based on the following.
.NET development: 9%
Java development:7%
LAMP skills including Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP/Python: 7%
AJAX: 6%
Visual Basic:4%
SharePoint:13%
SAP: 9%
Hyperion:7%
Business Objects:7%
PHP: 8%
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11.Systems and Application Integrators:
40K to 100K +
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12.Web Developers:
56K to 81K

Web development with applications moving from client to Web model.
Virturalization skills add 8% on base salary for internet and e-commerce postions.
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13.WEB 2.0 DEVELOPERS:
The salary range is skewed and all over the place.

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Sunny Leone a true Canadian DESI now back in India !.

Will you please post some of the industries/companies where there are job opportunities, so that we can start applying.

thanks in advance.

Interesting ... though I feel that some of the figures are slightly off but then there s always a range ...

To SamLucky - don't always wish to be spoon fed ... do your homework as well .

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Fido.

I know about workopolis and Monster. What are other resources for IT Jobs?Can anyone share contacts for desi consulting firms here in Canada? It will be great help for Job search.

Hi everyone

I have applied for PR to Canada back in June 2007 from the Canadian consulate here in the UK. Unfortunately this route also seems to be taking a good while.

My profession is within IT and I have about 3+ years in implementation (development) and integration experience of java related technologies. I am currently working towards my sun certifications in Java and will pass them very very soon.

My skills set includes the following: Java (2years), SAP Basis Administration R/3 (<1 year), Unix/Linux (3 years), Oracle/SQL Server/Sybase (<2 years),
HTML & Javascripting(2 years), .Net and C# (<1 year), Apache Tomcat (<2 years) and Weblogic 8.0(<2 years).

Ive also heard that many canadian employers will not really take foreign candidates seriously as they are not presently in Canada to attend face-to-face interviews or telephone. I have worked in Canada (Toronto) for 3-4 month dealing with clients such as RBC and symcor. I was wondering if there was a list or a website out there of employers willing to hire foreign candidates on a work permit.

regards

Anoop


PS. I did come across the following: http://www.it-careers.ca" rel="nofollow">LINK, http://bctechnology.com and http://www.branham300.com" rel="nofollow">LINK

Try Go Jobs there are lots of new positions coming everyday.

Thanks

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Saloni

planing to go back to canada on october 2010
Hi all,
I am a new member of canadiandesi.Me and my husband we are planing to go to canada on october.We went to canada on july2009 but we came back on october 2009 because we could not find a proper job.That time economic situation of north amaerica was bad too.My husband works in IT.He is having more than 8 years of experiences.So he is thinking may be on october the situation will improve more.I just want to know how is the IT job market in canada(toronto) now?I s it possible for him to get a interview call from india itself?Is it possible to conduct a telephonic interview to india?If anybody can help me please let me know.If he gets a job before the month of october sitting in india, we will go to toronto before october.
Please reply as soon as possible.
He is having 4 years of USA (North America) working experience.He is again going to California next month for 3-4 months.After coming back from USA he is planing to go to Canada on October. I hope this time he will be able to find a suitable job then right?