The global aerospace, defence and security industry experienced a 35% drop in new job postings related to social responsibility in Q4 2023 compared with the previous quarter, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics. This compares to a 71% 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, Architecture and Engineering Occupations jobs accounted for an 18% share of the global aerospace, defence and security industry’s social responsibility-related total new job postings in Q4 2023, down 32% over the prior quarter.
Architecture and Engineering Occupations drive social responsibility-related hiring activity
Architecture and Engineering Occupations, with a share of 18%, emerged as the top social responsibility-related job roles within the aerospace, defence and security industry in Q4 2023, with new job postings drop by 32% quarter-on-quarter. Management Occupations came in second with a share of 15% in Q4 2023, with new job postings dropping by 23% over the previous quarter.
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The other prominent social responsibility roles include Computer and Mathematical Occupations with a 10% share in Q4 2023, Production Occupations with a 7% share of new job postings.
Top five companies in aerospace, defence and security industry accounted for 36% of hiring activity
The top companies, in terms of number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, as of Q4 2023 were RTX, L3Harris Technologies, Airbus, Lockheed Martin, and Textron. Together they accounted for a combined share of 36% of all social responsibility-related new jobs in the aerospace, defence and security industry.
RTX posted 690 social responsibility-related new jobs in Q4 2023, L3Harris Technologies 651 jobs, Airbus 561 jobs, Lockheed Martin 357 jobs, and Textron 315 jobs, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics.
Hiring activity was driven by the US with a 67.97% share of total new job postings, Q4 2023
The largest share of social responsibility-related new job postings in the aerospace, defence and security industry in Q4 2023 was in the US with 67.97% followed by the UK (8.77%) and Canada (4.93%). The share represented by the US was five percentage points lower than the 72.54% share it accounted for in Q3 2023.
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