NOC 2021 · 21220 · TEER 1
Cybersecurity specialists
Unit group 21220 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
What this group covers
Cybersecurity specialists develop, plan, recommend, implement, improve and monitor security measures to protect an organization's computer networks, connected devices and information to prevent unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction of the information or of the systems on which the information resides. They are employed in information technology consulting firms and in information technology units throughout the public and private sectors.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- application security engineer
- communicator research operator - Canadian Armed Forces
- cyber operator - Canadian Armed Forces
- cybersecurity analyst
- cybersecurity consultant
- cybersecurity specialist
- informatics security analyst
- informatics security consultant
- information technology (IT) project manager - cybersecurity
- information technology (IT) security analyst
- Information technology (IT) security architect
- information technology (IT) security consultant
- information technology (IT) security specialist
- Internet security analyst
- network security analyst
- network security engineer
- systems security analyst
- systems security engineer
- systems security planner
What it pays, and where it is hiring
Job Bank publishes a wage estimate and a three-year employment outlook for each occupation, region by region. Both are below as published — where an estimate is missing from the source it is missing here too, because the alternative is inventing one.
Across Canada
$49.52 an hour
Low $30.00, high $72.12
Where it pays most
- Ottawa · Ontario$56.31
- Stratford--Bruce Peninsula · Ontario$52.12
- Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie · Ontario$51.28
- Lanaudière · Quebec$51.17
- Montérégie · Quebec$51.01
Economic regions only. A province’s figure is an average over the regions inside it, so including one would rank a province above its own best region and read as a finding.
By province and territory
| Where | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newfoundland and Labrador | $47.44 | $35.32 – $63.51 | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | $42.05 | $31.25 – $96.15 | Good |
| New Brunswick | $45.19 | $31.25 – $80.00 | Moderate |
| Quebec | $49.23 | $30.67 – $71.43 | Good |
| Ontario | $51.28 | $30.00 – $72.12 | Limited |
| Manitoba | $45.00 | $23.00 – $69.71 | Moderate |
| Saskatchewan | $45.64 | $35.00 – $76.92 | Moderate |
| Alberta | $50.51 | $35.40 – $87.09 | Moderate |
| British Columbia | $47.80 | $32.00 – $108.17 | Moderate |
| Yukon Territory | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Northwest Territories | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nunavut | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 32 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avalon Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | $48.28 | $37.65 – $68.82 | Undetermined |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $42.05 | $31.25 – $96.15 | Good |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | $43.78 | $30.26 – $65.59 | Moderate |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | $44.30 | $29.28 – $65.11 | Moderate |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | $48.58 | $32.70 – $69.81 | Moderate |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $49.43 | $33.53 – $68.47 | Very good |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $46.61 | $31.42 – $66.56 | Good |
| Estrie | Quebec | $46.34 | $32.30 – $63.74 | Good |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $51.01 | $34.76 – $72.42 | Good |
| Montréal | Quebec | $49.52 | $30.67 – $64.10 | Good |
| Laval | Quebec | $48.15 | $31.99 – $67.45 | Good |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $51.17 | $35.66 – $70.64 | Good |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $49.89 | $34.04 – $69.86 | Very good |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $49.67 | $33.79 – $72.11 | Very good |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $56.31 | $38.46 – $73.85 | Moderate |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Toronto | Ontario | $48.08 | $28.85 – $70.51 | Limited |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $51.28 | $30.00 – $72.12 | Limited |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $43.27 | $30.00 – $72.12 | Limited |
| London | Ontario | $50.26 | $34.98 – $70.52 | Limited |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $49.60 | $33.69 – $70.67 | Limited |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | $52.12 | $33.96 – $79.74 | Undetermined |
| Northeast | Ontario | $49.85 | $34.90 – $69.60 | Undetermined |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $44.82 | $30.88 – $65.06 | Moderate |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | $45.64 | $35.00 – $76.92 | Good |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | Alberta | $49.20 | $36.28 – $71.79 | Undetermined |
| Calgary | Alberta | $50.13 | $35.60 – $89.48 | Moderate |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $50.48 | $36.88 – $72.06 | Moderate |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $49.58 | $36.42 – $66.29 | Good |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $45.67 | $32.00 – $108.17 | Moderate |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $49.06 | $37.04 – $70.98 | Undetermined |
Job Bank rates employment prospects for each occupation in each economic region from very good to very limited over 2025–2027, and says “undetermined” where it has not got enough to rate. It is an assessment of prospects, not a count of vacancies.
The estimates on this page come from Labour Force Survey (2023-2024) · Small Area Estimation (2024).
Job Bank publishes an estimate for 24,364 of the 44,376 occupation-and-place pairs in this release. The rest are suppressed rather than modelled, and appear here as not published.
Wage estimates from the 2025 Wages release, revised 19 November 2025; employment outlooks from 2025-2027 Employment Outlooks - NOC 2021, released 8 December 2025. Both are updated annually. Estimates for different regions come from different surveys, so comparing two regions is exactly as sound as Job Bank’s own regional comparison and no more.
Source: Statistics Canada — National Occupational Classification 2021 V1.0; Employment and Social Development Canada — Job Bank wages; Employment and Social Development Canada — Job Bank 3-year employment outlooks. Data current as of 13 August 2026. NOC 2021 Version 1.0. The classification is versioned rather than dated — IRCC moved to it in November 2022, and a new version would be a new classification rather than an update.