Hiring activity related to cybersecurity increased by a CAGR of 24% in the mining industry since 2020

The global mining industry witnessed a 24% rise in compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in new job postings related to cybersecurity since 2020, according to GlobalData's Job Analytics database. New job postings increased by 4% year-on-year in 2021, and by 47% year-on-year in 2022.  

Notably, computer and mathematical occupations jobs accounted for 37% share of the global mining industry’s cybersecurity-related new job postings since 2020.

Computer and mathematical occupations, with a share of 37%, emerged as the top cybersecurity-related job roles within the mining industry since 2020, with new job postings rising by 26% year-on-year in 2021 and by 36% year-on-year in 2022.  

Architecture and engineering occupations came in second with a share of 16%, with new job postings falling by 5% year-on-year in 2021 and rising by 249% year-on-year in 2022.  

The other prominent cybersecurity roles include management occupations (9% share), and business and financial operations occupations (5% share).

The top five companies, in terms of the number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, since 2020 were ABB, Eaton, Caterpillar, Wartsila, and Cummins. Together they accounted for a combined share of 75% of all cybersecurity-related new jobs in the mining industry.  

ABB posted 3,568 cybersecurity-related jobs since 2020, followed by Eaton with 2, 476 jobs, and Caterpillar with 1,681 jobs, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics database.  

New job postings by ABB decreased by 78% year-on-year in 2021 and rose by 26% year-on-year in 2022, while those by Eaton increased by 271% in 2021 and by 651% in 2022.

The largest share of cybersecurity-related new job postings in the mining industry since 2020 was in the US with 38%, followed by India (21%) and Poland (6%). The share represented by the US decreased by ten percentage points from 51% in 2021 to 41% in 2022.