The global pharmaceutical industry experienced a 10% rise in new job postings related to artificial intelligence in Q2 2024 compared with the previous quarter, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics. This compares to a 17% increase 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 25% share of the global pharmaceutical industry’s artificial intelligence-related total new job postings in Q2 2024, up 38% over the prior quarter.
Management Occupations drive artificial intelligence-related hiring activity
Management Occupations, with a share of 25%, emerged as the top artificial intelligence-related job roles within the pharmaceutical industry in Q2 2024, with new job postings rising by 38% quarter-on-quarter. Computer and Mathematical Occupations came in second with a share of 18% in Q2 2024, with new job postings dropping by 6% over the previous quarter.
The other prominent artificial intelligence roles include Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations with a 9% 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 43% of hiring activity
The top companies, in terms of number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, as of Q2 2024 were Sanofi, Eurofins Scientific, AstraZeneca, Novartis, and Johnson & Johnson. Together they accounted for a combined share of 43% of all artificial intelligence-related new jobs in the pharmaceutical industry.
Sanofi posted 545 artificial intelligence-related new jobs in Q2 2024, Eurofins Scientific 490 jobs, AstraZeneca 451 jobs, Novartis 337 jobs, and Johnson & Johnson 278 jobs, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics.
Hiring activity was driven by the US with a 47.17% share of total new job postings, Q2 2024
The largest share of artificial intelligence-related new job postings in the pharmaceutical industry in Q2 2024 was in the US with 47.17% followed by India (13.72%) and France (8.73%). The share represented by the US was 0 percentage points lower than the 47.54% share it accounted for in Q1 2024.
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