Hiring activity related to metaverse increased by a CAGR of 53% in the mining industry since 2020  

The global mining industry witnessed a 53% rise in compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in new job postings related to metaverse since 2020, according to GlobalData's Job Analytics database. New job postings increased by 42% year-on-year in 2021, and by 64% year-on-year in 2022.

Notably, computer and mathematical occupations jobs accounted for 28% share of the global mining industry’s metaverse-related new job postings since 2020.

Computer and mathematical occupations, with a share of 28%, emerged as the top metaverse-related job roles within the mining industry since 2020, with new job postings falling by 48% year-on-year in 2021 and rising by 13% year-on-year in 2022.

Architecture and engineering occupations came in second with a share of 23%, with new job postings rising by 100% year-on-year in 2021 as well as 2022.

The other prominent metaverse roles include management occupations (13% share), and educational instruction and library occupations (8% share).

The top five companies, in terms of the number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, since 2020 were ABB, Nexans, Eaton, Teck Resources, and Caterpillar. Together they accounted for a combined share of 53% of all metaverse-related new jobs in the mining industry.

ABB posted 121 metaverse-related jobs since 2020, followed by Nexans with 93 jobs, and Eaton with 74 jobs, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics database.

New job postings by ABB increased by 10% year-on-year in 2021 and by 88% year-on-year in 2022, while those by Nexans increased by 13% in 2021 and by 56% in 2022.

The largest share of metaverse-related new job postings in the mining industry since 2020 was in the US with 28%, followed by Canada (13%) and France (12%). The share represented by the US increased by three percentage points from 27% in 2021 to 30% in 2022.