The global healthcare industry experienced a 38% drop in new job postings related to personal health data in Q4 2023 compared with the previous quarter, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics. This compares to a 55% 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 a 39% share of the global healthcare industry’s personal health data-related total new job postings in Q4 2023, down 36% over the prior quarter.

Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations drive personal health data-related hiring activity

Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations, with a share of 39%, emerged as the top personal health data-related job roles within the healthcare industry in Q4 2023, with new job postings drop by 36% quarter-on-quarter. Healthcare Support Occupations came in second with a share of 25% in Q4 2023, with new job postings dropping by 43% over the previous quarter.

The other prominent personal health data roles include Office and Administrative Support Occupations with a 7% share in Q4 2023, Management Occupations with a 4% share of new job postings.

Top five companies in healthcare industry accounted for 19% of hiring activity

The top companies, in terms of number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, as of Q4 2023 were Advocate Aurora Health, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Providence Health & Services, OSF HealthCare System, and CVS Health. Together they accounted for a combined share of 19% of all personal health data-related new jobs in the healthcare industry.

Advocate Aurora Health posted 1,394 personal health data-related new jobs in Q4 2023, Nationwide Children's Hospital 671 jobs, Providence Health & Services 667 jobs, OSF HealthCare System 604 jobs, and CVS Health 548 jobs, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics.

Hiring activity was driven by the US with a 96.60% share of total new job postings, Q4 2023

The largest share of personal health data-related new job postings in the healthcare industry in Q4 2023 was in the US with 96.60% followed by Canada (3.09%) and the UK (0.16%). The share represented by the US was one percentage point higher than the 95.69% share it accounted for in Q3 2023.

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This content was updated on 6 January 2024

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