The information displayed on this dashboard has been extracted from 7,665 online postings for jobs in Halifax, collected in the period from Nov 2024 to Oct 2025. Jobs in Halifax amounted to 9.7% of all jobs in Atlantic Canada. All Halifax job demand information displayed here is extracted from the job postings automatically, with an accuracy of at least 90%. A small error margin of 10% or less is possible, mostly due to the ambiguity of the information that employers provide in their job postings.

1,911 of all postings for Halifax jobs listed a salary. The average salary advertised in them was $56,243 to $64,723.

The most advertised job categories in Halifax were Cooks;  Retail salespersons;  and Registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses.

The most in-demand required skills that employers listed when advertising jobs in Halifax were Teamwork (required by 59.0% of all Halifax jobs) , Communication skills (48.0%) , and Flexibility (31.8%) .

Employers who advertised job openings in Halifax included Nova Scotia Health Authority,  Nova Scotia Government,  and Dalhousie University.

Halifax, the capital city of Nova Scotia, is the economic centre for Canada's East Coast. Home to many diverse communities, Halifax is both cosmopolitan and laid-back, balancing a vibrant entertainment and arts culture with an easy going east coast attitude.