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Notably, Computer and Mathematical Occupations jobs accounted for a 47% share of the global banking and payments industry’s cloud-related total new job postings in Q1 2023, down 29% over the prior quarter.

Computer and Mathematical Occupations drive cloud-related hiring activity

Computer and Mathematical Occupations, with a share of 47%, emerged as the top cloud-related job roles within the banking and payments industry in Q1 2023, with new job postings drop by 29% quarter-on-quarter. Management Occupations came in second with a share of 14% in Q1 2023, with new job postings dropping by 31% over the previous quarter.

The other prominent cloud roles include Architecture and Engineering Occupations with a 4% share in Q1 2023, Business and Financial Operations Occupations with a 3% share of new job postings.

Top five companies in banking and payments industry accounted for 33% of hiring activity

The top companies, in terms of number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, as of Q1 2023 were JPMorgan Chase & Co, US Bank, Barclays, Wells Fargo & Co, and Deutsche Bank. Together they accounted for a combined share of 33% of all cloud-related new jobs in the banking and payments industry.

JPMorgan Chase & Co posted 2,503 cloud-related new jobs in Q1 2023, US Bank 2,418 jobs, Barclays 1,402 jobs, Wells Fargo & Co 1,040 jobs, and Deutsche Bank 790 jobs, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics.

Hiring activity was driven by the US with a 50.39% share of total new job postings, Q1 2023

The largest share of cloud-related new job postings in the banking and payments industry in Q1 2023 was in the US with 50.39% followed by India (15.62%) and the UK (9.49%). The share represented by the US was two percentage points higher than the 48.28% share it accounted for in Q4 2022.

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