The 2020 CompTIA Cyberprovinces Report

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ABOUT THIS REPORT In an era when every individual is tech engaged and every organization is tech enabled, CompTIA is the leading destination for both. As an association dedicated to innovation, CompTIA unifies learning, advocacy and career networking in a welcoming, forward-thinking place. We are the connected global community of informed advocates, championingmodern technology (and the people who advance it) one day, one deployment, one discovery at a time. CompTIA is techforward. CompTIA designed Cyberprovinces to serve as a reference tool, making national, state, and metropolitan area-level data accessible to a wide range of users. Cyberprovinces quantifies the size and scope of the tech industry and the tech workforce across multiple vectors. To provide additional context, Cyberprovinces includes time-series trending, average wages, business establishments, job postings, emerging tech metrics, andmore. Cyberprovinces is a pre-COVID-19 report. The pandemic’s impact on the Canadian tech workforce will not be fully understood until Statistics Canada – the government agency that compiles data, releases its complete 2020 labour market data sets. In the Appendix of this report, CompTIA provides preliminary analysis on some of the effects of COVID. As with any sector-level report, there are varying interpretations of what constitutes the tech sector and the tech workforce. Some of this variance may be attributed to the objectives of the author. Is the goal to depict the broadest possible representation of STEM and digital economy fields, or a more narrowly defined technology subset? Is the goal to capture all possible knowledge workers, or a more narrowly defined technology subset? For the purposes of this report, CompTIA focuses on the more narrowly defined technology subset. See methodology section for details of the specific NAICS and SOC codes CompTIA uses in its definitions of the tech sector and the tech workforce. Due to periodic updates to industry and occupation categories by the U.S. Bureau of Labour Statistics, as well as occasional revisions of historical data, direct comparisons to previous publications of Cyberprovinces is not always possible. Additionally, CompTIA adjusts its methodology at times to best reflect available data and the needs of users. For these reasons, it is best to view the most recent release as the best representation of the state of the tech industry and workforce. If historical comparison data is required, requests can be submitted to research@comptia.org. ABOUTCOMPTIA The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) is the tech-forward community of the $5.2 trillion global information technology ecosystem and the hub for the 75 million professionals who design, deploy, manage and secure the technology that powers the modern economy. Through collaboration, education, certifications, advocacy and market research, CompTIA advances the industries and careers that rely ontech.