Job adverts for roles involved with the cloud at beverage manufacturers were online for less time in the second quarter than a year earlier, data suggests.
Cloud-related jobs that were closed during the period had been online for an average of 47.3 days when they were taken offline.
This was a decrease compared to the equivalent figure a year earlier, indicating that the required skillset for these roles has become easier to find in the past year.
Cloud is one of the topics that GlobalData, our parent company and from whom the data for this article is taken, has identified as being a key disruptive technology force facing companies in the coming years. Companies that excel and invest in these areas now are thought to be better prepared for the future business landscape and better equipped to survive unforeseen challenges.
On a regional level, these roles were hardest to fill in North America, with related jobs that were taken offline in the second quarter having been online for an average of 48 days.
At the opposite end of the scale, jobs were filled fastest in South & Central America, with adverts taken offline after 17 days on average.
While the drinks industry found it easier to fill these roles in the latest quarter, these companies actually found it harder to recruit cloud jobs than the wider market, with ads online for 15.4% more time on average compared to similar jobs across the entire jobs market.
GlobalData's job analytics database tracks the daily hiring patterns of thousands of companies across the world, drawing in jobs as they're posted and tagging them with additional layers of data on everything from the seniority of each position to whether a job is linked to wider industry trends.
