The global mining industry experienced an 11% drop in new job postings related to cloud in Q2 2024 compared with the previous quarter, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics. This compares to a 2% increase versus Q2 2023. GlobalData’s Mining: Hiring Trends & Signals Q2 2024 report reveals comprehensive insights into hiring patterns, job roles, required skills, geographical trends, and key themes within the mining industry, facilitating anticipation of future workforce needs. Buy the report here.
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Notably, Computer and Mathematical Occupations jobs accounted for a 42% share of the global mining industry’s cloud-related total new job postings in Q2 2024, down 16% over the prior quarter.
Computer and Mathematical Occupations drive cloud-related hiring activity
Computer and Mathematical Occupations, with a share of 42%, emerged as the top cloud-related job roles within the mining industry in Q2 2024, with new job postings drop by 16% quarter-on-quarter. Management Occupations came in second with a share of 9% in Q2 2024, with new job postings dropping by 6% over the previous quarter.
The other prominent cloud roles include Business and Financial Operations Occupations with a 5% share in Q2 2024, Architecture and Engineering Occupations with a 4% share of new job postings.
Top five companies in mining industry accounted for 44% of hiring activity
The top companies, in terms of number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, as of Q2 2024 were Caterpillar, ABB, Eaton, Atlas Copco, and Cummins. Together they accounted for a combined share of 44% of all cloud-related new jobs in the mining industry.
Caterpillar posted 201 cloud-related new jobs in Q2 2024, ABB 96 jobs, Eaton 93 jobs, Atlas Copco 60 jobs, and Cummins 60 jobs, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics.
Hiring activity was driven by the US with a 31.42% share of total new job postings, Q2 2024
The largest share of cloud-related new job postings in the mining industry in Q2 2024 was in the US with 31.42% followed by India (24.37%) and Canada (7.14%). The share represented by the US was 0 percentage points lower than the 31.89% share it accounted for in Q1 2024.
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