The global pharmaceutical industry experienced a 30% rise in new job postings related to cybersecurity in Q3 2022 compared with the previous quarter, according to GlobalData’s whitepaper on Cybersecurity in Pharmaceutical – Hiring Activity in Q3 2022. This compares to a 70% increase versus Q3 2021.

Notably, Registered Nurses jobs accounted for a 9% share of the global pharmaceutical industry’s cybersecurity-related total new job postings in Q3 2022, up 1315% over the prior quarter.

Smarter leaders trust GlobalData

Report-cover

White Papers Who’s hiring who? Cybersecurity in Pharmaceutical – Hiring Activity in Q3 2022

Get the whitepaper

Premium Insights

The gold standard of business intelligence.

Find out more

Related Company Profiles

View all

Registered Nurses drive cybersecurity-related hiring activity

Registered Nurses, with a share of 9%, emerged as the top cybersecurity-related job roles within the pharmaceutical industry in Q3 2022, with new job postings rising by 1315% quarter-on-quarter. Software and Web Developers, Programmers, and Testers came in second with a share of 6% in Q3 2022, with new job postings rising by 17% over the previous quarter.

The other prominent cybersecurity roles include Security Guards and Gambling Surveillance Officers with a 6% share in Q3 2022, Computer and Information Analysts with a 6% share of new job postings.

Top five companies in pharmaceutical industry accounted for 187% of hiring activity

The top companies, in terms of number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, as of Q3 2022 were Albany Medical Center, Intermountain Healthcare, Johnson & Johnson and UPMC Health System. Together they accounted for a combined share of 187% of all cybersecurity-related active jobs in the pharmaceutical industry.

Albany Medical Center posted 2,350 jobs in Q3 2022 and registered a rise of % over the previous quarter, followed by Intermountain Healthcare with 872 jobs and a 1% growth. Johnson & Johnson with 324 jobs and UPMC Health System with 243 jobs, recorded a 41% growth and a 39% increase, respectively, while Syneos Health recorded a 65% increase with 211 job postings during Q3 2022.

Hiring activity was driven by the US with an 80% share of total active job postings, Q3 2022

The largest share of cybersecurity-related new job postings in the pharmaceutical industry in Q3 2022 was in the US with 80% followed by the UK (4%) and India (3%). The share represented by the US was 11 percentage points higher than the 69% share it accounted for in Q2 2022.

Premium Insights

From

The gold standard of business intelligence.

Blending expert knowledge with cutting-edge technology, GlobalData’s unrivalled proprietary data will enable you to decode what’s happening in your market. You can make better informed decisions and gain a future-proof advantage over your competitors.

GlobalData

GlobalData, the leading provider of industry intelligence, provided the underlying data, research, and analysis used to produce this article.

GlobalData’s Jobs Analytics uses machine learning to uncover key insights from tracking daily job postings for thousands of companies globally. Proprietary analysis is used to group jobs into key thematic areas and granular sectors across the world’s largest industries. classifications are used to group patents into key thematic areas and link them to specific companies across the world’s largest industries.