Software Engineer, Crop Computer Vision and Machine Learning (#25241)

The employment outlook will be Moderate for software engineers and designers (NOC 21231) in Saskatchewan for the 2025-2027 period.

The following factors contributed to this outlook:

• Employment growth will lead to a few 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.

Here are some key facts about software engineers and designers in Saskatchewan:

• Approximately 750 people work in this occupation.
• Software engineers and designers mainly work in the following sectors:
  • Computer systems design services (NAICS 5415): 54%
  • Information and cultural industries (NAICS 51): 13%
• 81% of software engineers and designers work all year, while 19% work only part of the year, compared to 65% and 35% respectively among all occupations. Those who worked only part of the year did so for an average of 46 weeks compared to 43 weeks for all occupations.
• 9% of software engineers and designers are self-employed compared to an average of 16% for all occupations.
• The gender distribution of people in this occupation is:
  • Men: 87% compared to 53% for all occupations
  • Women: 13% compared to 47% for all occupations
• The educational attainment of workers in this occupation is:
  • no high school diploma: n/a
  • high school diploma or equivalent: 10% compared to 33% for all occupations
  • apprenticeship or trades certificate or diploma: n/a
  • college certificate or diploma or university certificate below bachelor's: 13% compared to 17% for all occupations
  • bachelor's degree: 50% compared to 18% for all occupations
  • university certificate, degree or diploma above bachelor level: 25% compared to 7% for all occupations