The global apparel industry experienced a 29% drop in new job postings related to robotics in Q3 2022 compared with the previous quarter, according to GlobalData’s whitepaper on Robotics in Apparel – Hiring Activity in Q3 2022. This compares to a 19% increase versus Q3 2021.
Notably, Software and Web Developers, Programmers, and Testers jobs accounted for an 11% share of the global apparel industry’s robotics-related total new job postings in Q3 2022, down 57% over the prior quarter.
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Software and Web Developers, Programmers, and Testers, with a share of 11%, emerged as the top robotics-related job roles within the apparel industry in Q3 2022, with new job postings drop by 57% quarter-on-quarter. Computer and Information Systems Managers came in second with a share of 8% in Q3 2022, with new job postings drop by 26% over the previous quarter.
The other prominent robotics roles include Miscellaneous Engineers with a 5% share in Q3 2022, Maintenance and Repair Workers, General with a 3% share of new job postings.
The top companies, in terms of number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, as of Q3 2022 were Amazon.com, Target, StockX and Rakuten Group. Together they accounted for a combined share of 29% of all robotics-related active jobs in the apparel industry.
Amazon.com posted 851 robotics-related new jobs in Q3 2022, Target 100 jobs, StockX 64 jobs, and Rakuten Group 29 jobs, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics.
The largest share of robotics-related new job postings in the apparel industry in Q3 2022 was in the US with 70% followed by India (8%) and Japan (4%). The share represented by the US was four percentage points lower than the 74% share it accounted for in Q2 2022.
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