The global medical devices industry experienced 0.2% drop in new job postings related to robotics in Q3 2022 compared with the previous quarter, according to GlobalData’s whitepaper on Robotics in Medical Devices – Hiring Activity in Q3 2022. This compares to a 28% increase versus Q3 2021.
Notably, Maintenance and Repair Workers, General jobs accounted for an 11% share of the global medical devices industry’s robotics-related total new job postings in Q3 2022, up 96% over the prior quarter.
Maintenance and Repair Workers, General, with a share of 11%, emerged as the top robotics-related job roles within the medical devices industry in Q3 2022, with new job postings rising by 96% quarter-on-quarter. Software and Web Developers, Programmers, and Testers came in second with a share of 9% in Q3 2022, with new job postings rise by 26% over the previous quarter.
The other prominent robotics roles include Miscellaneous Engineers with a 7% share in Q3 2022, Electrical and Electronics Engineers with a 4% share of new job postings.
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The top companies, in terms of number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, as of Q3 2022 were Medtronic, Intuitive Surgical, Procept Biorobotics and Danaher. Together they accounted for a combined share of 49% of all robotics-related active jobs in the medical devices industry.
Medtronic posted 303 jobs in Q3 2022 and registered a rise of % over the previous quarter, followed by Intuitive Surgical with 126 jobs and a 53% drop. Procept Biorobotics with 121 jobs and Danaher with 96 jobs, recorded a 2% growth and a 113% increase, respectively, while Zimmer Biomet Holdings recorded a 42% increase with 91 job postings during Q3 2022.
The largest share of robotics-related new job postings in the medical devices industry in Q3 2022 was in the US with 78% followed by India (4%) and Germany (2%). The share represented by the US was five percentage points lower than the 83% share it accounted for in Q2 2022.
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