North America is seeing a hiring boom in airport industry industrial automation roles

North America extended its dominance for industrial automation hiring among airport industry companies in the three months ending January.

The number of roles in North America made up 81.5% of total industrial automation jobs – up from 71.2% in the same quarter last year.

That was followed by Europe, which saw a -0.3% year-on-year change in industrial automation roles.

The figures are compiled by GlobalData, which tracks the number of new job postings from key companies in various sectors over time. Using textual analysis, these job advertisements are then classified thematically.

GlobalData's thematic approach to sector activity seeks to group key company information by topic to see which companies are best placed to weather the disruptions coming to their industries.

These key themes, which include industrial automation, are chosen to cover "any issue that keeps a CEO awake at night".

Tracking them across job advertisements allows us to see which companies are leading the way on specific issues and which are dragging their heels – and importantly where the market is expanding and contracting.

The fastest growing country was the US, which saw 68.5% of all industrial automation job adverts in the three months ending January 2021, increasing to 78.8% in the three months ending January this year.

That was followed by India (2.1%), Poland (0.4%), and Spain (0.4%).

The top country for industrial automation roles in the airport industry is the US which saw 78.8% of all roles advertised in the three months ending January.

Some 3.2% of all airport industry industrial automation roles were advertised in Atlanta (US) in the three months ending January.

That was followed by Bengaluru (India) with 3.2%, Lebanon (US) with 1.5%, and Dallas (US) with 1.5%.