Skilled Trades Ontario Research Hub

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Skilled Trades Ontario is an agency of the Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development responsible for apprenticeship and skilled trades certification in Ontario. They are working to make it easier for skilled trades professionals to access services, promote careers in the skilled trades and address the labour shortage. We want to make Ontario the place where skilled trades professionals thrive. 

The Skilled Trades Ontario site has a Research Hub that includes 2024 trade reports that provide an overview of a trade’s key characteristics, including a description of the trade, educational pathway, workforce demographics and a snapshot of the current labour market conditions. 

Workforce Profile 

The trade reports include a trade description that comes from a combination of sources such as the Job Bank, Statistics Canada National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2021 trade descriptions, and Trade details from the Skilled Trades Ontario website. 

The profiles include information from Workforce Planning Ontario, including data from Durham’s Jobs First Durham site, to provide the number of job postings and income profiles.  To obtain trade-specific information for Durham Region, visit the Labour Market Insights Report on the Jobs First Durham site and search specifically by trade. 

A close-up of a graph displaying the workforce profile in Ontario, indicating the highest job postings by region. The graph includes percentages for various areas: Peel 22%, Western 20%, Ottawa 18%, Toronto 8%, Central 54%, Waterloo 5%, and Halton under Other Regions. There are text annotations and numerical data presented in a software-generated diagram format.

A screenshot displaying an income profile, featuring annual salary range from $59,000 to $78,000 and hourly salary range from $30 to $40. The source is credited to Workforce Planning Ontario, Labour Market Insights Report 2024.