The global healthcare industry experienced a 35% drop in new job postings related to cybersecurity in Q4 2023 compared with the previous quarter, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics. This compares to a 72% decrease versus Q4 2022. GlobalData’s Healthcare: Hiring Trends & Signals Q4 2023 report reveals comprehensive insights into hiring patterns, job roles, required skills, geographical trends, and key themes within the healthcare industry, facilitating anticipation of future workforce needs. Buy the report here.

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Notably, Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations jobs accounted for an 18% share of the global healthcare industry’s cybersecurity-related total new job postings in Q4 2023, down 23% over the prior quarter.

Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations drive cybersecurity-related hiring activity

Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations, with a share of 18%, emerged as the top cybersecurity-related job roles within the healthcare industry in Q4 2023, with new job postings drop by 23% quarter-on-quarter. Computer and Mathematical Occupations came in second with a share of 13% in Q4 2023, with new job postings dropping by 21% over the previous quarter.

The other prominent cybersecurity roles include Healthcare Support Occupations with an 11% share in Q4 2023, Protective Service Occupations with a 11% share of new job postings.

Top five companies in healthcare industry accounted for 40% of hiring activity

The top companies, in terms of number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, as of Q4 2023 were Albany Medical Center, Western Maryland Health System, Prime Healthcare Services, Virtua Health, and Spire Healthcare Group. Together they accounted for a combined share of 40% of all cybersecurity-related new jobs in the healthcare industry.

Albany Medical Center posted 347 cybersecurity-related new jobs in Q4 2023, Western Maryland Health System 192 jobs, Prime Healthcare Services 106 jobs, Virtua Health 100 jobs, and Spire Healthcare Group 74 jobs, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics.

Hiring activity was driven by the US with an 89.18% share of total new job postings, Q4 2023

The largest share of cybersecurity-related new job postings in the healthcare industry in Q4 2023 was in the US with 89.18% followed by the UK (6.76%) and Canada (1.22%). The share represented by the US was 0 percentage points higher than the 89.12% share it accounted for in Q3 2023.

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This content was updated on 6 January 2024

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