How many live roles in Canada involve AI?
422 of 981 live roles in Canada involve AI. 43.0% · of live roles that involve AI · live specs · week ending 2 October 2026.
Across 981 live specs in Canada from 77 employers, week ending 2 October 2026. Each role is read on whether it involves AI, whether AI sits at the centre of the work, and whether the role is accountable for what the model produces.
A cell under 30 live specs prints its counts and no share; under 150, its count and base print beside its share. Every share moves with sector mix, and this page names the market’s sector cells beside its figures.
How many Canadian specifications involve AI
Involved: 422 of 981 live roles in Canada involve AI, 43.0% of live roles that involve AI (live specs, week ending 2 October 2026).
Central: of those 422 roles that involve AI, 300 have AI at the centre of the work, 71.1% of roles that involve AI where AI sits at the centre of the work.
Accountable: of those 300 AI-central roles, 48 are accountable for what the model produces, 16.0% of AI-central roles accountable for what the model produces.
Beside the three measures, as context and not as a measure, on the base of all live roles: 300 of 981 (30.6%) live roles in Canada are AI-central.
Which sectors make up the Canadian base
Sector mix: technology 288, advertising agencies 260, consumer brands 69. Sector cells with fewer than 10 employers in Canada are held: 364 live specs sit in them. Every figure on this page is for the market as a whole, and its sector mix is named here beside it.
Sector cells with fewer than 10 employers in Canada are held: 364 live specs sit in them.
Where AI lands by seniority in Canada
Entry level: 22 of 101 (21.8%) live roles in Canada involve AI; of those, 16 of 22 have AI at the centre of the work.
Director and above: 54 of 127 (42.5%) live roles in Canada involve AI; of those, 38 of 54 (70.4%) have AI at the centre of the work.
Week ending 2 October 2026.
How Canadian AI-central roles read on the four tests
Every AI-central role is then read on four tests. Accountable is one of them.
Of 300 AI-central roles in Canada, week ending 2 October 2026, each test on its own: works with the model, 37 of 300 (12.3%); can overrule it, 21 of 300 (7.0%); is accountable for what it produces, 48 of 300 (16.0%); keeps decisions over it, 75 of 300 (25.0%).
Beside the four tests, as context: 225 of 300 meet none of the four tests (75.0%).
Beside the four tests: 225 of 300 meet none of the four tests (75.0%).
How this is measured
Live specs: roles open at the freeze, de-duplicated, and read the same way in every market. Each measure's share is on the measure before it, and a figure under a floor prints its counts.
Full methodIs this a net-new seat at the company, or a backfill?
Of 300 AI-central roles in Canada: new (confirmed) 21.7%; backfill (confirmed) 17.0%; backfill (inferred) 61.3%, week ending 2 October 2026.