The global oil and gas industry experienced a 39% drop in new job postings related to artificial intelligence in Q3 2023 compared with the previous quarter, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics. This compares to a 46% decrease versus Q3 2022. GlobalData’s Oil & Gas: Hiring Trends & Signals Q3 2023 report reveals comprehensive insights into hiring patterns, job roles, required skills, geographical trends, and key themes within the oil & gas industry, facilitating anticipation of future workforce needs. Buy the report here.

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Notably, Computer and Mathematical Occupations jobs accounted for a 23% share of the global oil and gas industry’s artificial intelligence-related total new job postings in Q3 2023, down 42% over the prior quarter.

Computer and Mathematical Occupations drive artificial intelligence-related hiring activity

Computer and Mathematical Occupations, with a share of 23%, emerged as the top artificial intelligence-related job roles within the oil and gas industry in Q3 2023, with new job postings drop by 42% quarter-on-quarter. Architecture and Engineering Occupations came in second with a share of 8% in Q3 2023, with new job postings dropping by 33% over the previous quarter.

The other prominent artificial intelligence roles include Management Occupations with a 6% share in Q3 2023, Business and Financial Operations Occupations with a 5% 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 Q3 2023 were BASF, Shell, Oceaneering International, SOL, 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 123 artificial intelligence-related new jobs in Q3 2023, Shell 93 jobs, Oceaneering International 77 jobs, SOL 76 jobs, and Sherwin-Williams 64 jobs, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics.

Hiring activity was driven by the US with a 37.11% share of total new job postings, Q3 2023

The largest share of artificial intelligence-related new job postings in the oil and gas industry in Q3 2023 was in the US with 37.11% followed by Italy (17.18%) and Germany (7.32%). The share represented by the US was three percentage points higher than the 34.26% share it accounted for in Q2 2023.

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This content was updated on 8 October 2023

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