The global technology industry experienced a 5% rise in new job postings related to corporate governance in Q2 2024 compared with the previous quarter, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics. This compares to a 29% increase versus Q2 2023. GlobalData’s Technology: Hiring Trends & Signals Q2 2024 report reveals comprehensive insights into hiring patterns, job roles, required skills, geographical trends, and key themes within the technology industry, facilitating anticipation of future workforce needs. Buy the report here.
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Notably, Computer and Mathematical Occupations jobs accounted for a 26% share of the global technology industry’s corporate governance-related total new job postings in Q2 2024, down 15% over the prior quarter.
Computer and Mathematical Occupations drive corporate governance-related hiring activity
Computer and Mathematical Occupations, with a share of 26%, emerged as the top corporate governance-related job roles within the technology industry in Q2 2024, with new job postings drop by 15% quarter-on-quarter. Management Occupations came in second with a share of 16% in Q2 2024, with new job postings dropping by 8% over the previous quarter.
The other prominent corporate governance roles include Business and Financial Operations Occupations with an 8% share in Q2 2024, Sales and Related Occupations with a 4% share of new job postings.
Top five companies in technology industry accounted for 17% of hiring activity
The top companies, in terms of number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, as of Q2 2024 were Iron Mountain, Reliance Jio Infocomm, Environmental Systems Research Institute, Accenture, and Equinix. Together they accounted for a combined share of 17% of all corporate governance-related new jobs in the technology industry.
Iron Mountain posted 1,311 corporate governance-related new jobs in Q2 2024, Reliance Jio Infocomm 1,297 jobs, Environmental Systems Research Institute 848 jobs, Accenture 799 jobs, and Equinix 634 jobs, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics.
Hiring activity was driven by the US with a 48.07% share of total new job postings, Q2 2024
The largest share of corporate governance-related new job postings in the technology industry in Q2 2024 was in the US with 48.07% followed by India (19.37%) and the UK (3.46%). The share represented by the US was three percentage points higher than the 45.33% share it accounted for in Q1 2024.
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