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Top 20 Occupations In Canada With Highest Job Vacancies

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Top 20 Occupations In Canada With Highest Job Vacancies

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Last Updated On 20 June 2024, 10:41 AM EDT (Toronto Time)

Job vacancies in Canada continue to decline, with Statistics Canada reporting 648,600 vacant jobs in the first quarter of 2024.

This is about a 34% decline from the record high of 983,600 job vacancies in the second quarter of 2022.

The unemployment-to-job vacancy ratio is now the highest since the second quarter of 2021, with 2.0 unemployed persons for every job vacancy.

In the first quarter of 2024, the number of vacant positions in trades, transport, and equipment operators and related occupations decreased by 39,300 (-25.6%) on a year-over-year basis.

This is a matter of concern for candidates preparing to align their profiles with skilled trades and transport occupation-specific express entry draws since IRCC may revise the list of occupations eligible for these draws next year.

Furthermore, this might also be one of the potential reasons for IRCC not holding any trade occupation-targeted draws so far in 2024.

Professional occupations in health (40,300 vacancies), technical occupations in health (24,800), and specialized middle management occupations in health care (1,000 vacancies) experienced minimal fluctuations in the first quarter compared to the previous year.

In this article, we enlist:

20 Occupations With Highest Job Vacancies

Occupations and NOC Codes	Job vacancies	Average offered hourly wage
Registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses [31301]	28,635	$34.90
Food counter attendants, kitchen helpers and related support occupations [65201]	26,720	$16.60
Nurse aides, orderlies and patient service associates [33102]	21,060	$23.05
Retail salespersons and visual merchandisers [64100]	15,955	$17.50
Transport truck drivers [73300]	15,460	$27.15
Construction trades helpers and labourers [75110]	12,800	$22.90
Licensed practical nurses [32101]	12,740	$29.35
Cooks [63200]	12,505	$18.40
Social and community service workers [42201]	12,355	$23.60
Early childhood educators and assistants [42202]	9,950	$20.95
Other customer and information services representatives: [64409]	9,515	$21.30
Light-duty cleaners [65310]	9,430	$19.25
Food and beverage servers [65200]	8,970	$15.85
Store shelf stockers, clerks and order fillers [65102]	6,455	$16.00
Material handlers [75101]	6,375	$20.50
Administrative officers [13100]	5,990	$25.55
Automotive service technicians, truck and bus mechanics and mechanical repairers [72410]	5,970	$29.60
Food service supervisors [62020]	5,950	$18.10
Carpenters [72310]	5,680	$27.80
Receptionists [14101]	5,545	$20.75

Occupations With the Highest Job Vacancies in Q1 2024

10 occupations with the largest annual increases in job vacancies

Below are the top 10 occupations that saw the largest annual increase in the number of job vacancies in the first quarter of 2024.

Occupations	First quarter of 2024	first quarter of 2023	%age change year-on-year
Police officers (except commissioned)	820	300	173.3%
Other technical occupations in therapy and assessment	1665	755	120.5%
Respiratory therapists, clinical perfusionists and cardiopulmonary technologists	1475	690	113.8%
Concrete finishers	905	475	90.5%
Instructors of persons with disabilities	1155	640	80.5%
Web developers and programmers	910	510	78.4%
Pharmacists	2145	1370	56.6%
Banking, insurance and other financial clerks	2245	1550	44.8%
Drafting technologists and technicians	1725	1230	40.2%
Civil engineers	3050	2595	17.5%

10 occupations with the largest annual increases in job vacancies

10 occupations with the largest annual decreases in job vacancies

Below are the top 10 occupations that saw the largest annual decrease in the number of vacant jobs in the first quarter of 2024.

Occupations	First quarter of 2024	first quarter of 2023	First quarter of 2023 to first quarter of 2024
Food counter attendants, kitchen helpers and related support occupations	26,720	49,355	-45.9%
Retail salespersons and visual merchandisers	15,955	27,540	-42.1%
Material handlers	6,375	10,695	-40.4%
Store shelf stockers, clerks and order fillers	6,455	10,645	-39.4%
Other customer and information services representatives	9,515	14,760	-35.5%
Light-duty cleaners	9,430	14,290	-34%
Transport truck drivers	15,460	23,245	-33.5%
Cooks	12,505	18,475	-32.3%
Food and beverage servers	8,970	13,095	-31.5%
Social and community service workers	12,355	16,185	-23.7%

10 occupations with the largest annual decreases in job vacancies

What is the unemployment rate in Canada?

6.2% is the unemployment rate in Canada as of May 2024.

Which Canadian province has the highest unemployment rate in Canada?

Newfoundland and Labrador has the highest unemployment rate in Canada, at 7.9%, followed by New Brunswick at 7.5%, Alberta at 7.2%, PEI at 7.1%, and Ontario at 6.7%.

Which Canadian province has the lowest unemployment rate in Canada?

In May 2024, Manitoba had the lowest unemployment rate in Canada, at 4.9%, ahead of Quebec at 5.1%, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan at 5.6%.

Satinder brings expertise, knowledge, and experience related to internal work flows at IRCC. She worked at Canadian Consulate in Chandigarh before moving to Canada. Her articles on “Chinook – An internal IRCC tool used to bulk process temporary applications” was one of the notable work on our news website