NOC 2021 · 21211 · TEER 1
Data scientists
Unit group 21211 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Data scientists use advanced analytics technologies, including machine learning and predictive modelling, to support the identification of trends, scrape information from unstructured data sources and provide automated recommendations. They are employed by consulting firms, universities, banks and information technology departments in the public and private sectors.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- artificial intelligence (AI) analyst
- artificial intelligence (AI) consultant
- artificial intelligence (AI) designer
- artificial intelligence analyst
- artificial intelligence consultant
- big data analyst
- big data developer
- big data engineer
- data analytics consultant
- data analytics specialist
- data architect
- data engineer
- data miner
- data mining analyst
- data modeler
- data scientist
- lead data scientist
- machine learning engineer
- machine learning specialist
- quantitative analyst
Source: Statistics Canada — National Occupational Classification 2021 V1.0. 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.