I had an excellent experience working with STACK IT, especially with Daniela. She demonstrated exceptional professionalism, guidance, and support throughout the entire process. Her dedication to candidate success truly stood out at every stage.
IT recruitment · Canada
A better way to hire tech talent in Canada.
STACK IT is a boutique Canadian IT recruiter. We screen every candidate ourselves and hand you a short, ranked shortlist, for permanent and contract roles across the country.
Trusted by 100+ Canadian employers
MagnifiSyngrafii
ComQi
Vertex Solutions
What we do
Three ways to work with us.
Same recruiter team, different commitment models. Pick what fits your hiring window.
Permanent placement
Full-time, long-term tech hires with our 90-day guarantee. Pay only on successful hire.
- 90-day guarantee on every placement
- No fee until they start
- 3-stage screening process
Contract placement
Short-term or project-based IT talent, deployed fast. 5–10 day average from brief to first day.
- 5–10 day average placement
- T4A or corp-to-corp options
- Convert to permanent anytime
Talent network
For tech professionals who want to hear about roles that match before they’re posted publicly.
- Private roles, no public feed
- One outreach when matched, no spam
- Confidential to your employer
Why STACK IT
Canadian tech recruiters who screen everything themselves.
Large agencies optimize for volume and forward whoever is already in their database. We screen every candidate ourselves, so you talk to the people who actually evaluated them.
4.9 across 150+ Google reviewsFrom the people we place and the teams we staff.
We screen every candidate ourselves
No database forwarding. The recruiter who evaluated a candidate is the one who briefs you on them.
A shortlist you can actually read
Three to five ranked candidates with real screening notes on each one to sort through.
Compliant by default
AI disclosure, interview consent, and Ontario Bill 190 requirements are built into every search.
Fast where it counts
First submissions in a couple of days, and contract roles filled in five to ten.
How we work
From brief to offer accepted.
A structured, human-led search. Most engagements run the same four steps.
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Discovery call
We walk the role, team, and must-haves. No deck, no pitch.
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Shortlist
Three to five vetted candidates with screening notes, in days.
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Interview support
We coordinate, prep, and debrief both sides through the loop.
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Offer & onboarding
We frame the offer and stay engaged through day one.
Hire by role
The roles our tech recruiters fill most.
Pick a discipline to see the roles we fill. Each has a dedicated page with screening notes, comp ranges, and recent placements. Our tech recruiters in Toronto, Mississauga, and Ottawa run every search on the ground.
Google reviews
Trusted by the people we work with.
Real feedback from candidates and clients, straight from our Google Business Profile.
I had the opportunity to work with Sara, who understood my skills and goals and matched me with suitable opportunities. Her expertise made the job application process stress-free as she provided valuable insights and kept me informed throughout.
Ankita and JT were extremely helpful throughout the entire process, from the interview to receiving the offer letter. They provided guidance at every step, making the process smooth and seamless.
Ankita, Sara & JT are the best at what they do! Stack IT Recruitment is amazing in terms of hiring and job opportunities in the GTA region. Thanks for helping me find the right job and redeem my IT career.
Free download · No sales call attached
Know what tech talent costs before you budget the role.
- 2026 salary bands for 25+ Canadian tech roles
- Permanent and contract rates, by region
Recently placed
Roles we’ve closed in the last quarter.
Names withheld for privacy. The shape of the work isn’t.
FilledSaaS
Senior Data Engineer
Toronto, ON · Permanent14 daysBrief to offer
$145kBase + bonus
FilledFinancial
Cloud Solutions Architect
Mississauga, ON · Contract · 12 mo7 daysBrief to first day
$110/hrT4A
FilledHealthcare
IT Manager
Ottawa, ON · Permanent21 daysBrief to offer
$135kBase
200+
Placements since 2018
4.9☆
From 150+ Google reviews
5–10 days
Average contract placement
90 days
Guarantee on permanent
Every permanent placement is backed by our 90-day guarantee.
If a hire doesn’t work out in the first 90 days, we re-run the search and refill the role at no additional fee.
Featured resources
Salary benchmarks, compliance tools, and an ROI calculator.
Free, no credit card, no upsell. The tools we’ve shipped to make hiring easier.
Interactive tool
Delayed Hire Cost Calculator
Estimate how much each unfilled tech role costs your organization. Turns hiring delays into a number you can put in front of finance.
Launch the calculator
PDF guide
Canadian Tech Salary Guide [2026]
Compensation benchmarks across IT roles in Canada. Read alongside what you’re offering before the next salary review.
Download guide
PDF checklist
Bill 190 Ontario Hiring Checklist
Every requirement from Ontario’s January 2026 hiring law in checklist form. Salary disclosure, AI disclosure, 45-day decisions, vacancy declarations.
Download checklistFAQ
Working with an IT recruitment agency, answered.
What employers ask before they hand us a search.
A recruitment agency finds and screens people you would not reach through a job posting, then presents a short list you can interview. The work that matters happens before the shortlist: understanding the role well enough to judge a candidate, approaching people who are employed and not looking, and testing whether they can do the job rather than describe it. We only recruit technology roles across Canada, permanent and contract, and we are licensed in Ontario under REC-0000007562 and THA-0000007550.
Post the role yourself when you have strong inbound and time to sort it. The case for an agency is the opposite situation: the strongest technology candidates are already employed and not looking, and reaching them takes sourcing rather than screening. The honest test is what a vacancy costs you per week. If that number is larger than a one-time placement fee, waiting is the expensive option. Our cost of delayed hiring calculator puts a figure on it for your role.
Ask three things. Who actually screens your candidates, because at many firms the person you meet is not the person doing the work. What happens if the hire does not work out, and whether that promise is in writing. And whether they recruit your discipline specifically or everything at once. Then check the licence: Ontario has required recruiters and temporary help agencies to hold one since 2024, and the register is public.
Permanent hires are success-based: a percentage of first-year base salary, invoiced only when your hire starts, with no upfront fee or retainer and a 90-day guarantee behind it. Contract runs on a single transparent hourly rate with our margin already inside it, invoiced monthly for hours worked. Nothing is owed if you do not hire.
Software engineering and development, data and AI, cloud and infrastructure, security, and technology leadership, from intermediate through executive. If a search sits outside what we can genuinely screen for, we say so rather than take the brief. Every discipline has its own screening rubric, which you can see on the individual role pages.
Still have a question? Talk to a recruiter
Bill 190 compliant by default.
Every search keeps your hiring audit-ready in Ontario.
- Salary-range disclosure
- AI-use transparency
- Decisions within 45 days