The global 51³Ô¹ÏÍø experienced a 3% rise in new job postings related to future of work in Q1 2024 compared with the previous quarter, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics. This compares to an 11% decrease versus Q1 2023. GlobalData’s Construction: Hiring Trends & Signals Q1 2024 report reveals comprehensive insights into hiring patterns, job roles, required skills, geographical trends, and key themes within the 51³Ô¹ÏÍø, facilitating anticipation of future workforce needs.
Notably, Architecture and Engineering Occupations jobs accounted for a 15% share of the global 51³Ô¹ÏÍø’s future of work-related total new job postings in Q1 2024, down 20% over the prior quarter.
Architecture and Engineering Occupations drive future of work-related hiring activity
Architecture and Engineering Occupations, with a share of 15%, emerged as the top future of work-related job roles within the 51³Ô¹ÏÍø in Q1 2024, with new job postings drop by 20% quarter-on-quarter. Management Occupations came in second with a share of 11% in Q1 2024, with new job postings dropping by 15% over the previous quarter.
The other prominent future of work roles include Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations with a 9% share in Q1 2024, Computer and Mathematical Occupations with a 8% share of new job postings.
Top five companies in 51³Ô¹ÏÍø accounted for 28% of hiring activity
The top companies, in terms of number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, as of Q1 2024 were AECOM, , , , and . Together they accounted for a combined share of 28% of all future of work-related new jobs in the 51³Ô¹ÏÍø.
AECOM posted 2,257 future of work-related new jobs in Q1 2024, 2,073 jobs, 1,647 jobs, 1,625 jobs, and 1,122 jobs, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics.
Hiring activity was driven by the US with a 60.60% share of total new job postings, Q1 2024
The largest share of future of work-related new job postings in the 51³Ô¹ÏÍø in Q1 2024 was in the US with 60.60% followed by India (9.62%) and the UK (4.43%). The share represented by the US was two percentage points higher than the 58.49% share it accounted for in Q4 2023.
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