NOC 2021 · minor groupMostly one sector3 industries tagged

Computer, software and Web designers and developers

276,895 people in Canada, 55.4% of them in Professional, scientific and technical services. Between 40% and 70% of the people doing this work in one sector. The others exist everywhere else — which usually means most businesses buy this work in rather than employing it.

EmployedA
276,895
Canada, 2021 Census
Sectors employing itA
11
of 20, at 1% or more
Largest sectorA
55.4%
Professional, scientific and technical services
Median pay
$90,002
across 5 job titles
01

Where this work is done

The measured share of everyone in this occupation, by sector. It leans to one sector without belonging to it.

Professional, scientific and technical services 55.4%
Information and cultural industries 10.3%
Finance and insurance 7.6%
Public administration 5.2%
Manufacturing 4.7%
Retail trade 3.3%
Wholesale trade 3.2%
Educational services 2.2%
Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services 1.3%
Transportation and warehousing 1.2%
Health care and social assistance 1.1%
02

The jobs inside it

Statistics Canada counts these together as one minor group. These are the job titles underneath.

Computer systems developers and programmers 21230Software engineers and designers 21231Software developers and programmers 21232Web designers 21233Web developers and programmers 21234
03

The industries that employ it

Which NAICS industries these people work in. The sector above is measured; naming the industry group inside it is judgmentUNVERIFIED, made because the measured data shows this job is concentrated.

Developers concentrate in IT services and software publishing — most industries buy this work in rather than employing it.

IndustryCodeEstablishments · CA
Computer systems design and related services541541,746
Software publishers51321,808
Computing infrastructure providers, data processing, web hosting, and related services51821,163

Market records in those industries

IT Services & Systems Integration (5415)Execution decidesMSP Remote Monitoring & Service Automation (5415)One thing must be trueAI Agent Infrastructure & Evaluation (541514)WalkATS — Applicant Tracking Systems (541514)WalkCLM — Contract Lifecycle Management (541514)One thing must be trueCMS — Content Management Systems (541514)One thing must be trueCNAPP & Cloud Security Posture Management (541514)One thing must be trueCorporate LMS & Training Management (541514)One thing must be trueCPQ — Configure, Price, Quote (541514)One thing must be trueCRM — Customer Relationship Management (541514)WalkDAM — Digital Asset Management (541514)One thing must be trueDMS — Document Management Systems (541514)One thing must be trueEAM — Enterprise Asset Management (541514)One thing must be trueEOR & AOR — International Hiring Platforms (541514)One thing must be trueERP — Enterprise Resource Planning (541514)WalkExpense & Corporate Spend Management (541514)Execution decides

Sources for this page

The sector split is a count; the industry tag is a reading of it. Statistics Canada publishes this cross-tabulation against the twenty NAICS sectors and no finer, so everything above the industry table is measured and the table itself is judgment — offered because "which industry employs a veterinarian" has a useful answer that the published data stops just short of.