The global aerospace, defence and security industry experienced a 15% drop in new job postings related to corporate governance in Q4 2023 compared with the previous quarter, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics. This compares to a 16% decrease versus Q4 2022. GlobalData’s Aerospace, Defense & Security: Hiring Trends & Signals Q4 2023 report reveals comprehensive insights into hiring patterns, job roles, required skills, geographical trends, and key themes within the industry, facilitating anticipation of future workforce needs. Buy the report here.
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Notably, Computer and Mathematical Occupations jobs accounted for a 20% share of the global aerospace, defence and security industry’s corporate governance-related total new job postings in Q4 2023, up 7% over the prior quarter.
Computer and Mathematical Occupations drive corporate governance-related hiring activity
Computer and Mathematical Occupations, with a share of 20%, emerged as the top corporate governance-related job roles within the aerospace, defence and security industry in Q4 2023, with new job postings rising by 7% quarter-on-quarter. Architecture and Engineering Occupations came in second with a share of 17% in Q4 2023, with new job postings dropping by 5% over the previous quarter.
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The other prominent corporate governance roles include Management Occupations with an 11% share in Q4 2023, Business and Financial Operations Occupations with a 10% share of new job postings.
Top five companies in aerospace, defence and security industry accounted for 72% of hiring activity
The top companies, in terms of number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, as of Q4 2023 were Boeing, Huntington Ingalls Industries, L3Harris Technologies, Northrop Grumman, and RTX. Together they accounted for a combined share of 72% of all corporate governance-related new jobs in the aerospace, defence and security industry.
Boeing posted 3,031 corporate governance-related new jobs in Q4 2023, Huntington Ingalls Industries 974 jobs, L3Harris Technologies 627 jobs, Northrop Grumman 324 jobs, and RTX 314 jobs, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics.
Hiring activity was driven by the US with an 88.13% share of total new job postings, Q4 2023
The largest share of corporate governance-related new job postings in the aerospace, defence and security industry in Q4 2023 was in the US with 88.13% followed by India (2.24%) and the UK (2.12%). The share represented by the US was 13 percentage points higher than the 74.84% share it accounted for in Q3 2023.
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