Cloud Computing
Pharma found it easier to fill cloud vacancies in Q2 of 2022
The proportion of pharmaceutical companies hiring for cloud related positions rose to a year-high in August 2021, with 42.7% of the companies included in our analysis recruiting for at least one such position.
As per an analysis of geographic trends, cloud jobs were the hardest to fill in the pharma industry in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Cloud related jobs that were closed during Q2 2022 had been online for an average of 43.1 days when they were taken offline.
This was a decrease compared to the equivalent figure a year earlier, indicating that the required skillset for these roles has become easier to find in the past year.
Cloud is one of the topics that GlobalData, our parent company and from whom the data for this article is taken, have identified as being a key disruptive technology 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.
On a regional level, these roles were hardest to fill in Asia-Pacific, with related jobs that were taken offline in Q2 2022 having been online for an average of 47.2 days.
The next most difficult place to fill these roles was found to be North America, while Europe was in third place.
At the opposite end of the scale, jobs were filled fastest in the Middle East and Africa, with adverts taken offline after 38 days on average.
While the pharmaceutical industry found it easier to fill these roles in the latest quarter, these companies actually found it harder to recruit cloud jobs than the wider market, with ads online for 5.1% more time on average compared to similar jobs across the entire jobs market.
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.
