The global medical industry experienced a 12% rise in new job postings related to robotics in Q1 2024 compared with the previous quarter, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics. This compares to a 47% decrease versus Q1 2023. GlobalData’s Medical Devices: Hiring Trends & Signals Q1 2024 report reveals comprehensive insights into hiring patterns, job roles, required skills, geographical trends, and key themes within the medical devices industry, facilitating anticipation of future workforce needs. Buy the report here.
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Notably, Architecture and Engineering Occupations jobs accounted for a 20% share of the global medical industry’s robotics-related total new job postings in Q1 2024, up 20% over the prior quarter.
Architecture and Engineering Occupations drive robotics-related hiring activity
Architecture and Engineering Occupations, with a share of 20%, emerged as the top robotics-related job roles within the medical industry in Q1 2024, with new job postings rising by 20% quarter-on-quarter. Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations came in second with a share of 13% in Q1 2024, with new job postings rising by 30% over the previous quarter.
The other prominent robotics roles include Computer and Mathematical Occupations with a 12% share in Q1 2024, Management Occupations with a 9% share of new job postings.
Top five companies in medical industry accounted for 53% of hiring activity
The top companies, in terms of number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, as of Q1 2024 were Intuitive Surgical, Medtronic, Stryker, Danaher, and Becton Dickinson and Co. Together they accounted for a combined share of 53% of all robotics-related new jobs in the medical industry.
Intuitive Surgical posted 264 robotics-related new jobs in Q1 2024, Medtronic 183 jobs, Stryker 156 jobs, Danaher 98 jobs, and Becton Dickinson and Co 70 jobs, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics.
Hiring activity was driven by the US with a 70.89% share of total new job postings, Q1 2024
The largest share of robotics-related new job postings in the medical industry in Q1 2024 was in the US with 70.89% followed by Germany (4.85%) and the UK (4.09%). The share represented by the US was three percentage points lower than the 73.62% share it accounted for in Q4 2023.
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