Industrial automation-related jobs that were closed during Q2 2022 had been online for an average of 21 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.
Industrial automation is one of the topics that GlobalData, our parent company and from which the data for this article is taken, has 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 Europe, with related jobs that were taken offline in Q2 2022 having been online for an average of 34 days.
The next most difficult place to fill these roles was found to be North America, while Asia-Pacific was in third place.
At the opposite end of the scale, jobs were filled fastest in South & Central America, with adverts taken offline after 11 days on average.
While the mining industry found it easier to fill these roles in the latest quarter, these companies also found it easier to recruit industrial automation jobs than the wider market, with ads online for 40% less time on average compared to similar jobs across the entire jobs market.
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