Asia-Pacific is seeing a hiring jump in digital media roles

Asia-Pacific extended its dominance for digital media hiring among ship industry companies in the three months ending July.

The number of roles in Asia-Pacific made up 33.5% of total digital media jobs – up from 10.5% in the same quarter last year.

That was followed by Europe, which saw a 4.2 year-on-year percentage point change in digital media roles.

The figures are compiled by GlobalData, which tracks the number of new job postings from key companies in various sectors over time. Using textual analysis, these job advertisements are then classified thematically.

GlobalData's thematic approach to sector activity seeks to group key company information by topic to see which companies are best placed to weather the disruptions coming to their industries.

These key themes, which include digital media, are chosen to cover "any issue that keeps a CEO awake at night".

By tracking them across job advertisements it allows us to see which companies are leading the way on specific issues and which are dragging their heels – and importantly, where the market is expanding and contracting.

The fastest growing country was China, which saw 0.9% of all digital media job adverts in the three months ending July 2021, increasing to 14.4% in the three months ending July this year.

That was followed by India (up 5.3 percentage points), Denmark (4), and the Philippines (2.7).

The top country for digital media roles in the ship industry is the US, which saw 19% of all roles advertised in the three months ending July.

Some 9% of all ship industry digital media roles were advertised in Chengdu (China) in the three months ending July.

That was followed by Pune (India) with 5.4%, Copenhagen (Denmark) with 5.3%, and Shanghai (China) with 3.1%.