The global retail industry experienced a 5% drop in new job postings related to cloud in Q1 2023 compared with the previous quarter, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics. This compares to a 52% decrease versus Q1 2022. The growing application of Cloud will prove to have a transformative impact on the retail sector. GlobalData’s Cloud Market report helps keep abreast of the latest trends in Cloud, market opportunity forecast and the competitive landscape. Buy the report here.
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Notably, Computer and Mathematical Occupations jobs accounted for a 40% share of the global retail industry’s cloud-related total new job postings in Q1 2023, down 15% over the prior quarter.
Computer and Mathematical Occupations drive cloud-related hiring activity
Computer and Mathematical Occupations, with a share of 40%, emerged as the top cloud-related job roles within the retail industry in Q1 2023, with new job postings drop by 15% quarter-on-quarter. Management Occupations came in second with a share of 15% in Q1 2023, with new job postings dropping by 0.27% over the previous quarter.
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The other prominent cloud roles include Architecture and Engineering Occupations with a 4% share in Q1 2023, Business and Financial Operations Occupations with a 3% share of new job postings.
Top five companies in retail industry accounted for 38% of hiring activity
The top companies, in terms of number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, as of Q1 2023 were Amazon, J Sainsbury, Walmart, Woolworths Group, and NIKE. Together they accounted for a combined share of 38% of all cloud-related new jobs in the retail industry.
Amazon posted 1,445 cloud-related new jobs in Q1 2023, J Sainsbury 472 jobs, Walmart 364 jobs, Woolworths Group 308 jobs, and NIKE 258 jobs, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics.
Hiring activity was driven by the US with a 45.66% share of total new job postings, Q1 2023
The largest share of cloud-related new job postings in the retail industry in Q1 2023 was in the US with 45.66% followed by the UK (13.29%) and India (5.98%). The share represented by the US was 13 percentage points lower than the 58.26% share it accounted for in Q4 2022.
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