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North America is seeing a hiring boom in mining industry cybersecurity roles
North America extended its dominance for cybersecurity hiring among mining industry companies in the three months ending September this year.
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The number of roles in North America made up 70.6% of total cybersecurity jobs – up from 50.2% in the same quarter last year. That was followed by Europe, which saw a -7.5 year-on-year percentage point change in cybersecurity roles.
The figures are compiled by GlobalData, who track the number of new job postings from key companies in various sectors over time. Using textual analysis, these job advertisements are then classified thematically.
GlobalData's thematic approach to sector activity seeks to group key company information by topic to see which companies are best placed to weather the disruptions coming to their industries. These key themes, which include cybersecurity, are chosen to cover "any issue that keeps a CEO awake at night".
By tracking them across job advertisements it allows us to see which companies are leading the way on specific issues and which are dragging their heels - and importantly where the market is expanding and contracting.
Our analysis of the data shows that mining industry operations and technologies companies are currently hiring for robotics jobs at a rate higher than the average for all companies within GlobalData's job analytics database. The average among all companies stood at 0.4% in August 2021.
GlobalData's job analytics database tracks the daily hiring patterns of thousands of companies across the world, drawing in jobs as they're posted and tagging them with additional layers of data on everything from the seniority of each position to whether a job is linked to wider industry trends.
You can keep track of the latest data from this database as it emerges by visiting our live dashboard here.
Which countries are seeing the most growth for cybersecurity roles in the mining industry?
The fastest growing country was the United States, which saw 43.7% of all cybersecurity job adverts in the three months ending June last year, increasing to 65.7% in the three months ending September this year.
That was followed by Australia (up 0.8 percentage points), Mexico (up 0.6), and Singapore (up 0.2).
The top country for cybersecurity roles in the mining industry is the United States which saw 65.7 per cent of all roles in the three months ending September.
Which cities are the biggest hubs for cybersecurity workers in the mining industry?
Some 15% of all mining industry cybersecurity roles were advertised in US city of Peoria in the three months ending September, more than any other city. That was followed by East Peoria with 15%, Chicago with 7.4%, and Nashville with 5.8%, all of which are also in the US.
Methodology
GlobalData’s unique Job analytics enables understanding of hiring trends, strategies, and predictive signals across sectors, themes, companies, and geographies. Intelligent web crawlers capture data from publicly available sources. Key parameters include active, posted and closed jobs, posting duration, experience, seniority level, educational qualifications and skills.
