Hiring activity related to cloud decreased by 11% in the mining industry in Q4 2022 

The global mining industry experienced an 11% drop in new job postings related to cloud in Q4 2022 compared with the previous quarter, according to GlobalData’s Jobs Analytics. This compares to a 3% increase versus Q4 2021. 

Notably, software and web developers, programmers and testers jobs accounted for a 27% share of the global mining industry’s cloud-related total new job postings in Q4 2022, down 25% over the prior quarter. 

Software and web developers, programmers and testers, with a share of 27%, emerged as the top cloud-related job roles within the mining industry in Q4 2022, with new job postings drop by 25% quarter-on-quarter. Database and network administrators and architects came in second with a share of 9% in Q4 2022, with new job postings rising by 9% over the previous quarter. 

The other prominent cloud roles include computer and information systems managers with a 4% share in Q4 2022, and computer and information analysts with a 3% share of new job postings. 

The top companies, in terms of number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, as of Q4 2022 were ABB, Komatsu, W.W. Grainger and Caterpillar. Together they accounted for a combined share of 50% of all cloud-related active jobs in the mining industry. 

ABB posted 309 cloud-related new jobs in Q4 2022, Komatsu 217 jobs, W.W. Grainger 192 jobs and Caterpillar 128 jobs, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics. 

The largest share of cloud-related new job postings in the mining industry in Q4 2022 was in the US with 44.6% followed by India (12.9%) and Canada (11.8%). The share represented by the US was one percentage point higher than the 43.8% share it accounted for in Q3 2022.