The global oil and gas industry experienced a 27% drop in new job postings related to artificial intelligence in Q2 2023 compared with the previous quarter, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics. This compares to a 13% decrease versus Q2 2022. The growing application of Artificial Intelligence will prove to have a transformative impact across oil and gas sector. GlobalData’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Market Size, Share, Trends, Analysis and Forecast report helps keep abreast of the latest trends in Artificial Intelligence, market opportunity forecast and the competitive landscape. Buy the report here.
Notably, Computer and Mathematical Occupations jobs accounted for a 25% share of the global oil and gas industry’s artificial intelligence-related total new job postings in Q2 2023, down 23% over the prior quarter.
Computer and Mathematical Occupations drive artificial intelligence-related hiring activity
Computer and Mathematical Occupations, with a share of 25%, emerged as the top artificial intelligence-related job roles within the oil and gas industry in Q2 2023, with new job postings drop by 23% quarter-on-quarter. Management Occupations came in second with a share of 8% in Q2 2023, with new job postings dropping by 30% over the previous quarter.
The other prominent artificial intelligence roles include Architecture and Engineering Occupations with an 8% share in Q2 2023, Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations with a 6% share of new job postings.
Top five companies in oil and gas industry accounted for 29% of hiring activity
The top companies, in terms of number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, as of Q2 2023 were BASF, Shell, Saipem, CGG, and Sherwin-Williams. Together they accounted for a combined share of 29% of all artificial intelligence-related new jobs in the oil and gas industry.
BASF posted 193 artificial intelligence-related new jobs in Q2 2023, Shell 158 jobs, Saipem 125 jobs, CGG 105 jobs, and Sherwin-Williams 96 jobs, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics.
Hiring activity was driven by the US with a 35.65% share of total new job postings, Q2 2023
The largest share of artificial intelligence-related new job postings in the oil and gas industry in Q2 2023 was in the US with 35.65% followed by Italy (18.19%) and India (8.99%). The share represented by the US was one percentage point higher than the 34.66% share it accounted for in Q1 2023.
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