The global medical industry experienced a 15% drop in new job postings related to robotics in Q4 2023 compared with the previous quarter, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics. This compares to a 56% decrease versus Q4 2022. GlobalData’s Medical Devices: Hiring Trends & Signals Q4 2023 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 19% share of the global medical industry’s robotics-related total new job postings in Q4 2023, down 24% over the prior quarter.
Architecture and Engineering Occupations drive robotics-related hiring activity
Architecture and Engineering Occupations, with a share of 19%, emerged as the top robotics-related job roles within the medical industry in Q4 2023, with new job postings drop by 24% quarter-on-quarter. Computer and Mathematical Occupations came in second with a share of 16% in Q4 2023, with new job postings dropping by 15% over the previous quarter.
The other prominent robotics roles include Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations with a 10% share in Q4 2023, Management Occupations with a 10% share of new job postings.
Top five companies in medical industry accounted for 61% of hiring activity
The top companies, in terms of number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, as of Q4 2023 were Intuitive Surgical, Medtronic, Stryker, Danaher, and Becton Dickinson and Co. Together they accounted for a combined share of 61% of all robotics-related new jobs in the medical industry.
Intuitive Surgical posted 285 robotics-related new jobs in Q4 2023, Medtronic 194 jobs, Stryker 153 jobs, Danaher 63 jobs, and Becton Dickinson and Co 50 jobs, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics.
Hiring activity was driven by the US with an 89.04% share of total new job postings, Q4 2023
The largest share of robotics-related new job postings in the medical industry in Q4 2023 was in the US with 89.04% followed by India (1.40%) and Germany (0.91%). The share represented by the US was seven percentage points higher than the 82.51% share it accounted for in Q3 2023.
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