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Hiring activity related to cybersecurity increased by a CAGR of 19% in the pharmaceutical industry since 2020
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The global pharmaceutical industry witnessed a 19% rise in compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in new job postings related to cybersecurity since 2020, according to GlobalData's Job Analytics database. New job postings increased by 64% year-on-year in 2021 but decreased by 14% year-on-year in 2022.
Notably, management occupations jobs accounted for 33% share of the global pharmaceutical industry’s cybersecurity-related new job postings since 2020.
Management occupations drive cybersecurity-related hiring activity
Management occupations, with a share of 33%, emerged as the top cybersecurity-related job roles within the pharmaceutical industry since 2020, with new job postings rising by 79% year-on-year in 2021 and falling by 12% year-on-year in 2022.
Computer and mathematical occupations came in second with a share of 29%, with new job postings rising by 83% year-on-year in 2021 and by 6% year-on-year in 2022.
The other prominent cybersecurity roles include business and financial operations occupations with a 9% share, healthcare practitioners and technical occupations with an 8% share and life, physical, and social science occupations with a 4% share.
The top five companies in the pharmaceutical industry accounted for 29% of hiring activity
The top five companies, in terms of the number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, since 2020 were AstraZeneca, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, GSK, Syneos Health, and Johnson & Johnson. Together they accounted for a combined share of 29% of all cybersecurity-related new jobs in the pharmaceutical industry.
AstraZeneca posted 1,654 cybersecurity-related jobs since 2020, followed by F. Hoffmann-La Roche with 1,534 jobs, and GSK with 1,164 jobs, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics database.
New job postings by AstraZeneca increased by 21% year-on-year in 2021 and rose by 38% year-on-year in 2022, while those by F. Hoffmann-La Roche increased by 46% in 2021 and fell by 17% in 2022.
Hiring activity was driven by the US with a 51% share of total new job postings since 2020
The largest share of cybersecurity-related new job postings in the pharmaceutical industry since 2020 was in the US with 51%, followed by the UK (7%) and India (6%). The share represented by the US decreased by six percentage points from 55% in 2021 to 49% in 2022.
GlobalData, the leading provider of industry intelligence, provided the underlying data, research, and analysis used to produce this article.
GlobalData’s Job Analytics database uses machine learning to uncover key insights from tracking daily job postings for thousands of companies globally. Proprietary analysis is used to group jobs into key thematic areas and granular sectors across the world’s largest industries.
