The global medical industry experienced a 20% drop in new job postings related to cybersecurity in Q2 2024 compared with the previous quarter, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics. This compares to 0.93% increase versus Q2 2023. GlobalData’s Medical Devices: Hiring Trends & Signals Q2 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, Computer and Mathematical Occupations jobs accounted for a 25% share of the global medical industry’s cybersecurity-related total new job postings in Q2 2024, down 43% over the prior quarter.
Computer and Mathematical Occupations drive cybersecurity-related hiring activity
Computer and Mathematical Occupations, with a share of 25%, emerged as the top cybersecurity-related job roles within the medical industry in Q2 2024, with new job postings drop by 43% quarter-on-quarter. Management Occupations came in second with a share of 14% in Q2 2024, with new job postings rising by 0.28% over the previous quarter.
The other prominent cybersecurity roles include Business and Financial Operations Occupations with a 7% share in Q2 2024, Architecture and Engineering Occupations with a 6% share of new job postings.
Top five companies in medical industry accounted for 28% of hiring activity
The top companies, in terms of number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, as of Q2 2024 were Natera, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Abbott Laboratories, Quest Diagnostics, and GE HealthCare Technologies. Together they accounted for a combined share of 28% of all cybersecurity-related new jobs in the medical industry.
Natera posted 317 cybersecurity-related new jobs in Q2 2024, Thermo Fisher Scientific 125 jobs, Abbott Laboratories 89 jobs, Quest Diagnostics 87 jobs, and GE HealthCare Technologies 79 jobs, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics.
Hiring activity was driven by the US with a 56.90% share of total new job postings, Q2 2024
The largest share of cybersecurity-related new job postings in the medical industry in Q2 2024 was in the US with 56.90% followed by India (9.82%) and Germany (7.85%). The share represented by the US was eight percentage points higher than the 49.24% share it accounted for in Q1 2024.
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