The global retail industry experienced 0.73% drop in new job postings related to robotics in Q3 2022 compared with the previous quarter, according to GlobalData’s whitepaper on Robotics in Retail – Hiring Activity in Q3 2022. This compares to an 8% increase versus Q3 2021.
Notably, Software and Web Developers, Programmers, and Testers jobs accounted for a 14% share of the global retail industry’s robotics-related total new job postings in Q3 2022, down 20% over the prior quarter.
Software and Web Developers, Programmers, and Testers, with a share of 14%, emerged as the top robotics-related job roles within the retail industry in Q3 2022, with new job postings drop by 20% quarter-on-quarter. Computer and Information Systems Managers came in second with a share of 7% in Q3 2022, with new job postings drop by 6% over the previous quarter.
The other prominent robotics roles include Miscellaneous Engineers with a 4% share in Q3 2022, Maintenance and Repair Workers, General with a 3% share of new job postings.
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The top companies, in terms of number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, as of Q3 2022 were Amazon.com, Ocado Group, Target and StockX. Together they accounted for a combined share of 0.94% of all robotics-related active jobs in the retail industry.
Amazon.com posted 851 jobs in Q3 2022 and registered a drop of 30% over the previous quarter, followed by Ocado Group with 414 jobs and a % growth. Target with 100 jobs and StockX with 64 jobs, recorded a 49% decline and a 16% decrease, respectively, while Menards recorded a 3800% increase with 39 job postings during Q3 2022.
The largest share of robotics-related new job postings in the retail industry in Q3 2022 was in the US with 55% followed by the UK (20%) and India (5%). The share represented by the US was 20 percentage points the 74% share it accounted for in Q2 2022.
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