The proportion of mining industry operations and technologies companies hiring for robotics-related positions rose in June 2022 compared with the equivalent month last year, with 30.8% of the companies included in our analysis recruiting for at least one such position.
This latest figure was higher than the 21.4% of companies that were hiring for robotics-related jobs a year ago but a decrease compared to the figure of 38.5% in May 2022.
When it came to the rate of all job openings that were linked to robotics, related job postings rose in June 2022 from May 2022, with 1.5% of newly posted job advertisements being linked to the topic.
This latest figure was the highest monthly figure recorded in the past year and is an increase compared to the 0.9% of newly advertised jobs that were linked to robotics in the equivalent month a year ago.
Robotics is one of the topics that GlobalData, from which our data for this article is taken, has identified as being a key disruptive force facing companies in the coming years. Companies that excel and invest in these areas now are thought to be better prepared for the future business landscape and better equipped to survive unforeseen challenges.
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 0.6% in June 2022.
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.
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