Asia-Pacific is seeing a hiring boom in airport industry cybersecurity roles

Asia-Pacific was the fastest growing region for cybersecurity hiring among airport industry companies in the three months ending September.

The number of roles in Asia-Pacific made up 14.3% of total cybersecurity jobs – up from 11.9% in the same quarter last year.

That was followed by Europe, which saw a -1.2% year-on-year change in cybersecurity roles.

The figures are compiled by GlobalData, who track 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 cybersecurity, are chosen to cover "any issue that keeps a CEO awake at night".

By tracking them across job advertisements it allows us to see which companies are leading the way on specific issues and which are dragging their heels, and where the market is expanding and contracting.

The fastest growing country was Poland, which saw 3.4% of all cybersecurity job adverts in the three months ending June last year, increasing to 10.8% in the three months ending September this year.

That was followed by Belgium (up 3.8%), India (up 2.4%), and the United Kingdom (up 1.9%).

The top country for cybersecurity roles in the airport industry is the US which saw 29.1% of all roles in the three months ending September.

Some 4.6% of all airport industry cybersecurity roles were advertised in Charleroi (Belgium) in the three months ending September, more than any other city.

That was followed by March (UK) with 4.6%, Chorzow (Poland) with 4.4%, and Saint-Ouen (France) with 3.9%.