The information displayed on this dashboard has been extracted from 13,534 online postings for jobs in Halifax, collected in the period from Mar 2025 to Feb 2026. Jobs in Halifax amounted to 11.2% 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.

4,580 of all postings for Halifax jobs listed a salary. The average salary advertised in them was $53,331 to $63,622.

The most advertised job categories in Halifax were Retail salespersons;  Cooks;  and Administrative assistants.

The most in-demand required skills that employers listed when advertising jobs in Halifax were Teamwork (required by 55.7% of all Halifax jobs) , Communication skills (47.8%) , and Customer Service (33.6%) .

Employers who advertised job openings in Halifax included Nova Scotia Health Authority,  Royal Bank of Canada,  and Nova Scotia Government.

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.