Jobs in Edmonton, Alberta

Edmonton is Alberta’s capital, and its largest employers are the provincial government, the health system, the University of Alberta and the industrial plants east and northeast of the city. Construction, logistics, retail and the trades fill out the market.

The city is the staging point for northern Alberta. Fabrication shops, refineries and petrochemical plants in the surrounding industrial region hire welders, pipefitters, electricians, millwrights and operators, and many Edmonton-based workers rotate to sites further north. Warehousing is concentrated in the west end and around Nisku and Leduc near the airport, where a car is usually needed. Government and university jobs are clustered along the LRT line. See skilled trades jobs and public service jobs, or compare jobs in Calgary.

Job market snapshot: Edmonton, October 2026

Employers advertised 1,547 job postings in Edmonton on Job Bank in October 2026, covering 2,447 vacancies. About 87% were full-time. The median advertised wage among hourly-paid postings was $25.65 an hour.

Source: Job Bank open data, Employment and Social Development Canada. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Figures count postings first advertised on Job Bank that month. They are not a count of jobs open on JobsNearMe.ca today.