Hiring activity related to cloud increased by a CAGR of 56% in the mining industry since 2020

Computer and mathematical occupations, with a share of 64%, emerged as the top cloud-related job roles within the mining industry since 2020, with new job postings rising by 90% year-on-year in 2021 and rising by 18% year-on-year in 2022. 

Management occupations came in second with a share of 13%, with new job postings rising by 83% year-on-year in 2021 and rising by 27% year-on-year in 2022. 

The other prominent cloud roles include architecture and engineering occupations with a 7% share, business and financial operations occupations with a 4% share and installation, maintenance, and repair occupations with 3%.

The top five companies, in terms of the number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, since 2020 were Komatsu, Caterpillar, ABB, Deere and Eaton. Together they accounted for a combined share of 61% of all cloud-related new jobs in the mining industry. 

Komatsu posted 2,370 cloud-related jobs since 2020, followed by Caterpillar with 2,267 jobs, and ABB with 2,077 jobs, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics database. 

New job postings by Komatsu increased by 373% year-on-year in 2021 and rose by 21% year-on-year in 2022, while those by Caterpillar increased by 51% in 2021 and declined by 4% in 2022.

The largest share of cloud-related new job postings in the mining industry since 2020 was in the US with 42%, followed by India (12%) and Canada (10%). The share represented by the US decreased by five percentage points from 44% in 2021 to 39% in 2022.