Engineering internships in Canada, by the numbers
Of 47 engineering internships in Canada in the last 30 days, only 31 said what they pay.
Measured over the 30 days to 24 September 2026 · 47 postings. Updated daily.
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Only 31 of 47 engineering internships said what they pay
the other 16 say nothing about pay at all
31 of 47
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We list a new internship about 14 hours after it goes up
median across 47 postings that carried a timestamp
849 of 47
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16 companies posted engineering internships
across 47 listings — the busiest was Nokia with 10
16 of 47
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Python was asked for in 43% of engineering internships
20 of 47 listings named it, ahead of Excel (9) and Machine learning (8)
20 of 47
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We turn away about 1432 listings for every one we put on the board
67,299 refused of 81,334 cards seen — most are course sellers and unpaid "intern" schemes
67,299 of 81,334
How this was measured
We track engineering internships and entry-level full-time roles as they are published on public job boards and on companies' own careers pages, and record each one the first time we see it. These figures cover every internship we recorded in Canada in the 30 days to 24 September 2026; the entry-level roles on the board's Full-time tab are not counted here.
A posting only reaches the board if its employer is on a list we keep of companies we believe are real and actually pay interns. Most are not: we turned away about 1432 listings for every one we published. That gate is the point of the site, and it is also the biggest thing to hold in mind when reading these numbers.
What these numbers are not
- This is not a census of every internship in Canada. It is a census of the ones that got past the gate above, so it describes the market a student would actually want to apply to rather than the whole of it.
- “Said nothing about pay” does not mean unpaid. It means the posting did not state a figure we could read. A genuinely unpaid role and one that simply never mentioned money are indistinguishable here, and we do not guess between them.
- Applicant counts are frozen at the moment we found the posting. They are what the listing reported then, not now, which is the whole reason a low one is worth acting on quickly.
- Only what employers state is counted. Skills, duration and working arrangements are read from the posting text, so a requirement that goes unmentioned is missing rather than absent.
Using these figures
They are free to quote with a link to this page. Cite them as measured on 24 September 2026 — the page is regenerated daily, so the numbers move.