The proportion of data analytics hire in mining industry operations and technologies companies rose significantly in July 2022 compared with the equivalent month last year.
The leading data and anlaytics compamy noted that the analysis had a large sample of companies with 63.3 per cent of the companies included, recruiting for at least one such position.
Comparing this latest figure with that of the previous year, this was higher than the 52 per cent companies that were hiring for data analytics-related jobs a year ago and an increase compared to the figure of 58.5 per cent in June 2022.
Looking at the rate of all job openings that were linked to data analytics, related job postings dropped in July 2022 from June 2022, with 7.1 per cent of newly posted job advertisements being linked to data analytics. This latest figure was the same as the 7.1 per cent of newly advertised jobs that were linked to data analytics in the equivalent month a year ago.
“Data analytics is one of the topics that GlobalData, has identified as being a key disruptive force facing companies in the coming years. Companies that excel and invest in these areas now are thought to be better prepared for the future business landscape and better equipped to survive unforeseen challenges.”
GlobalData
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Hiring Rising at a Higher Rate
Based on the analysis of the data, GlobalData found that mining industry operations and technologies companies are currently hiring for data analytics jobs at a rate higher than the average for all companies within GlobalData’s job analytics database. The average among all companies stood at 5.8 per cent in July 2022.
GlobalData’s job analytics database tracks the daily hiring patterns of thousands of companies across the world, drawing in jobs as they’re posted and tagging them with additional layers of data on everything from the seniority of each position to whether a job is linked to wider industry trends.
By tracking countries across job advertisements, it allows GlobalData to see which companies are leading the way on specific issues and which are dragging their heels– and importantly where the market is expanding and contracting
Since the beginning of the year, GlobalData analysis has demonstrated that North America continues to dominate data analytics hiring among mining industry companies in the three months ending May 2022.
Based on the existing data, the number of roles in North America made up 62.1 per cent of total data analytics jobs– up from 55 per cent in the same quarter last year. That was followed by Europe, which saw a 1.1 year-on-year percentage point change in data analytics roles.
The fastest growing country was the US, which saw 47.4 per cent of all data analytics job adverts in the three months ending May 2021, increasing to 52.4 per cent in the three months ending May 2022.
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