The global medical industry experienced a 10% rise in new job postings related to medical device quality control in Q2 2024 compared with the previous quarter, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics. This compares to 0.81% increase versus Q2 2023. GlobalData’s Medical Devices: Hiring Trends & Signals Q2 2024 report reveals comprehensive insights into hiring patterns, job roles, required skills, geographical trends, and key themes within the medical devices industry, facilitating anticipation of future workforce needs. Buy the report here.
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Notably, Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations jobs accounted for a 17% share of the global medical industry’s medical device quality control-related total new job postings in Q2 2024, up 31% over the prior quarter.
Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations drive medical device quality control-related hiring activity
Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations, with a share of 17%, emerged as the top medical device quality control-related job roles within the medical industry in Q2 2024, with new job postings rising by 31% quarter-on-quarter. Management Occupations came in second with a share of 12% in Q2 2024, with new job postings rising by 24% over the previous quarter.
The other prominent medical device quality control roles include Production Occupations with a 10% share in Q2 2024, Architecture and Engineering Occupations with a 10% share of new job postings.
Top five companies in medical industry accounted for 39% of hiring activity
The top companies, in terms of number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, as of Q2 2024 were Laboratory Corp of America Holdings, Fresenius SE & Co, Quest Diagnostics, Thermo Fisher Scientific, and Option Care Enterprises. Together they accounted for a combined share of 39% of all medical device quality control-related new jobs in the medical industry.
Laboratory Corp of America Holdings posted 1,032 medical device quality control-related new jobs in Q2 2024, Fresenius SE & Co 990 jobs, Quest Diagnostics 565 jobs, Thermo Fisher Scientific 460 jobs, and Option Care Enterprises 316 jobs, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics.
Hiring activity was driven by the US with a 66.71% share of total new job postings, Q2 2024
The largest share of medical device quality control-related new job postings in the medical industry in Q2 2024 was in the US with 66.71% followed by Germany (12.67%) and India (3.37%). The share represented by the US was one percentage point lower than the 67.33% share it accounted for in Q1 2024.
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