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
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.