The global pharmaceutical industry experienced a 2% rise in new job postings related to big data in Q2 2024 compared with the previous quarter, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics. This compares to an 8% decrease versus Q2 2023. GlobalData’s Pharma: Hiring Trends & Signals Q2 2024 report reveals comprehensive insights into hiring patterns, job roles, required skills, geographical trends, and key themes within the pharmaceuticals industry, facilitating anticipation of future workforce needs. Buy the report here.
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Notably, Management Occupations jobs accounted for a 23% share of the global pharmaceutical industry’s big data-related total new job postings in Q2 2024, up 15% over the prior quarter.
Management Occupations drive big data-related hiring activity
Management Occupations, with a share of 23%, emerged as the top big data-related job roles within the pharmaceutical industry in Q2 2024, with new job postings rising by 15% quarter-on-quarter. Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations came in second with a share of 18% in Q2 2024, with new job postings rising by 7% over the previous quarter.
The other prominent big data roles include Computer and Mathematical Occupations with a 15% share in Q2 2024, Business and Financial Operations Occupations with a 3% share of new job postings.
Top five companies in pharmaceutical industry accounted for 27% of hiring activity
The top companies, in terms of number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, as of Q2 2024 were AstraZeneca, Novartis, Merck, AbbVie, and Sanofi. Together they accounted for a combined share of 27% of all big data-related new jobs in the pharmaceutical industry.
AstraZeneca posted 732 big data-related new jobs in Q2 2024, Novartis 725 jobs, Merck 555 jobs, AbbVie 525 jobs, and Sanofi 522 jobs, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics.
Hiring activity was driven by the US with a 56.66% share of total new job postings, Q2 2024
The largest share of big data-related new job postings in the pharmaceutical industry in Q2 2024 was in the US with 56.66% followed by India (12.25%) and the UK (2.97%). The share represented by the US was four percentage points higher than the 53.09% share it accounted for in Q1 2024.
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