The Top in Demand Professions for Canada Immigration In 2019

Posted by Global Tree on May 17th, 2019

The Canada immigration juggernaut keeps rolling on taking every immigrant aspirant along with it. Looking at the news, you may imagine that almost everyone who applies for immigration gets to enter the country. While that is almost true, there is indeed a vetting process and some professions have a better chance of passing the mark than others. In other words, there is indeed first among equals. For the current year, the top jobs that are in demand for the year 2019 are listed below.

Occupations related to the engineering and technology sectors top the list for the most in-demand positions in Canada. Occupations that are in demand include computer programmers, software developers, web designers, and chemical engineers among others.

In Demand Occupations for Canada Immigration In 2019 

Engineering and Other Sciences

Engineers and professionals in various science related field continue to be in demand for the year 2019. These professionals work in occupations such as chemical engineering, web designing, architecture etc. apart from the above field’s mathematicians and statisticians also have seen an increase in demand for their professional services.  At present there are more than 1,900 job vacancies for engineers in Canada, with salaries ranging from 60,000 CAD to 120,000 CAD.

software development is yet another in-demand position, with more than 600 vacancies and an average salary range of 70,000 CAD to 130,000 CAD

Business and Accounting

Occupations in demand under the NOC 11 category can include accountants, auditors, human resource and business service professionals. These professionals can expect to earn salaries that range from 50,000 to 100,000, CAD in Canada if approved for immigration. In the human resources sector, professionals can expect to earn anywhere between 60,000 CAD to 150,000 CAD depending on the location of the job as well as the seniority of the position.

Middle Management level jobs

Canada occupation classification NOC 01-05, includes a variety of middle management positions such as financial managers, information systems managers. engineering managers and administrators. The NOC

21 category features professionals in a middle management role who have the technical ability in engineering and apart from management experience. Financial managers who plan to immigrate to Canada can expect to earn salaries in the range of 75,000 CAD to 150,000 CAD, whereas engineering managers, can expect to earn salaries that range between 75,000 CAD and 140,000 CAD based on the seniority of the position

University professors and school teachers

Canada has a huge demand for College lecturers and university professors who have a track record of being experts in their fields. Many high school and elementary teaching positions are also in demand in Canada with many provincial states and public schools in cities like Toronto facing a serious shortage of teaching staff. More than 2600 teachers have immigrated to Canada through the Express Entry system in 2018

Health care

The health care sector is one of the most in demand professions in Canada and several medical fields are covered under NOC 31 which is meant for categorizing professional occupations in health. physicians, pharmacists, chiropractors, therapists and nutritionists come under this category, which saw more than 1700 immigrants arrive in Canada in the previous year.