NOC 2021 · 21311 · TEER 1
Computer engineers (except software engineers and designers)
Unit group 21311 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Computer engineers (except software engineers and designers) research, plan, design, develop, modify, evaluate and integrate computer and telecommunications hardware and related equipment, and information and communication system networks including mainframe systems, local and wide area networks, fibre-optic networks, wireless communication networks, intranets, the Internet and other data communications systems. They are employed by computer and telecommunication hardware manufacturers, by engineering, manufacturing and telecommunications firms, in information technology consulting firms, by governmental, educational and research institutions and in information technology units throughout the private and public sectors.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) design engineer
- capacity planning analyst
- computer engineer
- computer engineer (except software)
- computer engineering project manager
- computer hardware engineer
- computer systems engineer
- computer telecommunications specialist
- data communications specialist
- fibre-optic network designer
- hardware circuit board designer
- hardware design engineer
- hardware development engineer
- hardware engineer
- hardware technical architect
- information technology (IT) solutions engineer
- infrastructure architect - information technology (IT)
- microprocessor designer and application engineer
- microwave systems engineer
- microwave transmission systems engineer
- network architect - computer systems
- network capacity planner
- network designer - computer systems
- network engineer - communication hardware
- network infrastructure engineer
- network specialist - computer systems
- network support engineer
- network systems engineer
- network test engineer
- optical communications engineer
- optical communications hardware engineer
- optical systems engineer - telecommunications
- radio systems engineer
- satellite data transmission engineer
- spacecraft electronics engineer - hardware
- systems designer - hardware
- technical architect - hardware
- telecommunications engineer
- telecommunications hardware engineer
- telecommunications hardware specialist
- telecommunications specialist - computer systems
- telecommunications systems specialist
- wireless communications network engineer
What it pays, and where it is hiring
Job Bank publishes a wage estimate and a three-year employment outlook for each occupation, region by region. Both are below as published — where an estimate is missing from the source it is missing here too, because the alternative is inventing one.
Across Canada
$52.50 an hour
Low $32.05, high $78.85
Where it pays most
- Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula · Ontario$56.41
- Outaouais · Quebec$55.96
- Stratford--Bruce Peninsula · Ontario$55.90
- Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean · Quebec$55.50
- Ottawa · Ontario$54.88
Economic regions only. A province’s figure is an average over the regions inside it, so including one would rank a province above its own best region and read as a finding.
By province and territory
| Where | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newfoundland and Labrador | $44.86 | $30.00 – $68.75 | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | $48.33 | $28.72 – $65.14 | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | $47.12 | $30.00 – $73.08 | Good |
| New Brunswick | $51.44 | $40.02 – $71.79 | Moderate |
| Quebec | $54.95 | $32.00 – $74.00 | Moderate |
| Ontario | $52.88 | $33.65 – $86.54 | Limited |
| Manitoba | $46.29 | $31.49 – $68.08 | Moderate |
| Saskatchewan | $46.17 | $26.11 – $69.57 | Moderate |
| Alberta | $45.68 | $27.52 – $68.06 | Limited |
| British Columbia | $54.27 | $36.34 – $81.57 | Moderate |
| Yukon Territory | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Northwest Territories | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nunavut | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 36 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avalon Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | $47.85 | $30.00 – $68.75 | Undetermined |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $45.75 | $29.92 – $64.11 | Good |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | $46.69 | $30.74 – $68.14 | Moderate |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | $47.59 | $30.50 – $67.94 | Moderate |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | $45.30 | $32.13 – $64.65 | Moderate |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | $52.02 | $34.24 – $72.36 | Moderate |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $49.45 | $38.46 – $64.10 | Moderate |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $51.83 | $36.18 – $72.74 | Moderate |
| Estrie | Quebec | $50.52 | $33.40 – $68.43 | Good |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $54.80 | $37.32 – $76.39 | Moderate |
| Montréal | Quebec | $53.38 | $35.31 – $76.04 | Moderate |
| Laval | Quebec | $53.33 | $35.10 – $137.36 | Moderate |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $54.10 | $36.52 – $75.14 | Good |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $54.82 | $36.23 – $81.06 | Good |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $55.96 | $38.72 – $78.10 | Moderate |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $50.27 | $36.10 – $70.22 | Good |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $55.50 | $39.11 – $77.95 | Good |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $54.88 | $42.31 – $91.83 | Moderate |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | $54.10 | $35.84 – $77.65 | Moderate |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | $54.69 | $37.76 – $81.32 | Moderate |
| Toronto | Ontario | $52.88 | $37.50 – $78.85 | Limited |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $53.85 | $32.82 – $120.19 | Limited |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $56.41 | $46.00 – $68.00 | Moderate |
| London | Ontario | $52.33 | $35.38 – $73.91 | Moderate |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $52.76 | $37.20 – $78.08 | Moderate |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | $55.90 | $37.35 – $88.14 | Undetermined |
| Northeast | Ontario | $51.01 | $34.49 – $73.78 | Undetermined |
| Northwest | Ontario | $52.59 | $36.47 – $72.70 | Undetermined |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $46.44 | $32.76 – $67.83 | Limited |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | $50.52 | $36.68 – $76.11 | Good |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $46.97 | $35.17 – $63.54 | Moderate |
| Calgary | Alberta | $47.93 | $30.02 – $69.68 | Limited |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $45.68 | $27.52 – $68.06 | Limited |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $53.23 | $35.98 – $75.92 | Very good |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $54.57 | $36.76 – $81.98 | Moderate |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $54.58 | $38.57 – $78.15 | Undetermined |
Job Bank rates employment prospects for each occupation in each economic region from very good to very limited over 2025–2027, and says “undetermined” where it has not got enough to rate. It is an assessment of prospects, not a count of vacancies.
The estimates on this page come from Labour Force Survey (2023-2024) · Small Area Estimation (2024) · Employment Insurance Survey Data (2023-2024).
Job Bank publishes an estimate for 24,364 of the 44,376 occupation-and-place pairs in this release. The rest are suppressed rather than modelled, and appear here as not published.
Wage estimates from the 2025 Wages release, revised 19 November 2025; employment outlooks from 2025-2027 Employment Outlooks - NOC 2021, released 8 December 2025. Both are updated annually. Estimates for different regions come from different surveys, so comparing two regions is exactly as sound as Job Bank’s own regional comparison and no more.
Source: Statistics Canada — National Occupational Classification 2021 V1.0; Employment and Social Development Canada — Job Bank wages; Employment and Social Development Canada — Job Bank 3-year employment outlooks. 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.