Hiring activity related to cybersecurity decreased by a CAGR of 11% in the aerospace & defence industry since 2020

The global aerospace & defence industry witnessed a 11% fall in compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in new job postings related to cybersecurity since 2020, according to GlobalData's Job Analytics database. New job postings increased by 16% year-on-year in 2021 and decreased by 32% year-on-year in 2022.  

Notably, computer and mathematical occupations jobs accounted for 51% share of the global aerospace & defence industry’s cybersecurity-related new job postings since 2020. 

Computer and mathematical occupations, with a share of 51%, emerged as the top cybersecurity-related job roles within the aerospace & defence industry since 2020, with new job postings rising by 9% year-on-year in 2021 and decreasing by 33% year-on-year in 2022.  

Management occupations came in second with a share of 10%, with new job postings rising by 46% year-on-year in 2021 and decreasing by 24% year-on-year in 2022.  

The other prominent cybersecurity roles include architecture and engineering occupations (10% share) and business and financial operations occupations (8% share).  

The top five companies, in terms of the number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, since 2020 were Raytheon Technologies, Leidos, Thales, Lockheed Martin, and General Dynamics. Together they accounted for a combined share of 64% of all cybersecurity-related new jobs in the aerospace & defence industry.  

Raytheon Technologies posted 20,581 cybersecurity-related jobs since 2020, followed by Leidos with 16,475 jobs, and Thales with 8,247 jobs, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics database.  

New job postings by Raytheon Technologies increased by 29% year-on-year in 2021 and fell by 72% year-on-year in 2022, while those by Leidos increased by 33% in 2021 and fell by 41% in 2022.  

The largest share of cybersecurity-related new job postings in the aerospace & defence industry since 2020 was in the US with 78%, followed by France (4%) and the UK (4%). The share represented by the US decreased by two percentage points from 79% in 2021 to 77% in 2022.

GlobalData, the leading provider of industry intelligence, provided the underlying data, research, and analysis used to produce this article. 

GlobalData’s Job Analytics database uses machine learning to uncover key insights from tracking daily job postings for thousands of companies globally. Proprietary analysis is used to group jobs into key thematic areas and granular sectors across the world’s largest industries.