Job prospects Data Scientist in New Brunswick

Explore current and future job prospects for people working as a "data scientist" in New Brunswick or across Canada.

Job opportunities in New Brunswick

The recent trends from the past 3 years were updated on July 25, 2025. The job outlooks over the next 3 years were updated on December 10, 2025.

Prospects over the next 3 years

The employment outlook will be Moderate for data scientists (NOC 21211) in New Brunswick for the 2025-2027 period.

The following factors contributed to this outlook:

• Employment growth will lead to a moderate number of new positions.
• Not many positions will become available due to retirements.
• There are a small number of unemployed workers with recent experience in this occupation.

• These workers can be found across a variety of industries as their services are useful to a variety of operations. They are primarily employed in the professional, scientific and technical services industry, particularly in computer systems design firms, as well as various levels of government, financial institutions, healthcare, retail and e-commerce, and other large organisations. 
• Ongoing developments in cybersecurity, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and other technologies will continue to support demand for data scientists going forward. The demand for data-driven decision making across businesses and governments will also support growth in this occupation. However, artificial intelligence has automated parts of a data scientist job, particularly routine junior-level tasks such as code writing and data cleaning, which will likely shift the tasks for data scientists going forward. As a result, the availability of junior-level roles may become limited, while intermediate and senior-level roles are more in demand. 
• Experience and up-to-date skills in programming languages such as Python, Structured Query Language (SQL), and R will have the best employment prospects. In addition, experience with data visualization tools, such as Power BI and Tableau, big data platforms (Hadoop) and cloud platforms, including Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Azure, are common in job postings. 
• Those who are willing to accept temporary or contract-based assignments may have greater employment opportunities. 

Here are some key facts about data scientists in New Brunswick:

• Approximately 150 people worked in this occupation in May 2021.
• Data scientists mainly work in the following sectors:
  • Computer systems design services (NAICS 5415): 37%
  • Provincial and territorial public administration (NAICS 912): 17%
  • Insurance Carriers and related activities (NAICS 524, 526): 14%
  • Federal government public administration (NAICS 911): 14%
  • Other professional, scientific and technical services (NAICS 5414, 5416-5419): 7%
• 72% of data scientists work all year, while 28% work only part of the year, compared to 62% and 38% respectively among all occupations. Those who worked only part of the year did so for an average of 44 weeks compared to 42 weeks for all occupations.
• The gender distribution of people in this occupation is:
  • Men: 67% compared to 52% for all occupations
  • Women: 33% compared to 48% for all occupations
• The educational attainment of workers in this occupation is:
  • no high school diploma: n/a
  • high school diploma or equivalent: 14% compared to 30% for all occupations
  • apprenticeship or trades certificate or diploma: n/a
  • college certificate or diploma or university certificate below bachelor's: n/a
  • bachelor's degree: 34% compared to 16% for all occupations
  • university certificate, degree or diploma above bachelor level: 48% compared to 7% for all occupations

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Source Labour Market Information | Prospects Methodology

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