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Skills observatory

Skills Demand Analysis in Canada

ADCC is a CNAES project. It publishes public indicators on the skills in demand in Canada, by province and economic region, based on Government of Canada open data.

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Why CNAES leads this project

A student, a job seeker or a newcomer has no simple way today to know which skills are actually in demand on the Canadian labour market. Bringing the rigour of economics and statistics to this question is at the heart of the Network's mission.

The method in three sentences

  1. Job posting volumes come from Job Bank, the open dataset of Employment and Social Development Canada.
  2. Skills profiles come from OaSIS, the official occupational classification.
  3. No data is fabricated: every published figure carries its source, its period and the fingerprint of the original file.

The observatory's figures

Positions posted during the reference month

125,635

Reference period : October 2026 · measured

Occupations covered

496

Reference period : October 2026 · measured

Most requested skills

Reference period : October 2026 · derived

  1. 1Quality Control TestingView : Quality Control Testing
  2. 2MonitoringView : Monitoring
  3. 3Time ManagementView : Time Management
  4. 4Social PerceptivenessView : Social Perceptiveness
  5. 5Management of Material ResourcesView : Management of Material Resources

Breakdown by province

Reference period : October 2026 · measured

Breakdown by province
Quebec49,09839.1%
Ontario29,64723.6%
British Columbia18,01714.3%
Alberta10,0378%
Saskatchewan5,0864%

Source: ADCC observatoryRead on November 9, 2026Open the ADCC observatory