The global mining industry experienced 0.26% drop in new job postings related to future of work in Q2 2024 compared with the previous quarter, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics. This compares to a 12% increase versus Q2 2023. GlobalData’s Mining: Hiring Trends & Signals Q2 2024 report reveals comprehensive insights into hiring patterns, job roles, required skills, geographical trends, and key themes within the mining industry, facilitating anticipation of future workforce needs. Buy the report here.

Notably, Architecture and Engineering Occupations jobs accounted for a 15% share of the global mining industry’s future of work-related total new job postings in Q2 2024, down 9% over the prior quarter.

Architecture and Engineering Occupations drive future of work-related hiring activity

Architecture and Engineering Occupations, with a share of 15%, emerged as the top future of work-related job roles within the mining industry in Q2 2024, with new job postings drop by 9% quarter-on-quarter. Production Occupations came in second with a share of 10% in Q2 2024, with new job postings rising by 9% over the previous quarter.

The other prominent future of work roles include Computer and Mathematical Occupations with a 9% share in Q2 2024, Management Occupations with a 8% share of new job postings.

Top five companies in mining industry accounted for 44% of hiring activity

The top companies, in terms of number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, as of Q2 2024 were ABB, Caterpillar, Eaton, Flowserve, and Epiroc. Together they accounted for a combined share of 44% of all future of work-related new jobs in the mining industry.

ABB posted 1,302 future of work-related new jobs in Q2 2024, Caterpillar 899 jobs, Eaton 675 jobs, Flowserve 434 jobs, and Epiroc 327 jobs, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics.

Hiring activity was driven by the US with a 42.36% share of total new job postings, Q2 2024

The largest share of future of work-related new job postings in the mining industry in Q2 2024 was in the US with 42.36% followed by India (12.46%) and Canada (7.82%). The share represented by the US was 0 percentage points lower than the 42.48% share it accounted for in Q1 2024.

For further understanding of GlobalData's Mining: Hiring Trends & Signals Q2 2024, buy the report here.

This content was updated on 28 July 2024

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