The global banking and payments industry experienced a 15% drop in new job postings related to ecommerce in Q2 2024 compared with the previous quarter, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics. This compares to a 32% decrease versus Q2 2023. GlobalData’s Banking & Payments: Hiring Trends & Signals Q2 2024 report reveals comprehensive insights into hiring patterns, job roles, required skills, geographical trends, and key themes within the industry, facilitating anticipation of future workforce needs. Buy the report here.

Notably, Management Occupations jobs accounted for a 24% share of the global banking and payments industry’s ecommerce-related total new job postings in Q2 2024, down 6% over the prior quarter.

Management Occupations drive ecommerce-related hiring activity

Management Occupations, with a share of 24%, emerged as the top ecommerce-related job roles within the banking and payments industry in Q2 2024, with new job postings drop by 6% quarter-on-quarter. Computer and Mathematical Occupations came in second with a share of 15% in Q2 2024, with new job postings dropping by 14% over the previous quarter.

The other prominent ecommerce roles include Business and Financial Operations Occupations with a 7% share in Q2 2024, Sales and Related Occupations with a 4% share of new job postings.

Top five companies in banking and payments industry accounted for 30% of hiring activity

The top companies, in terms of number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, as of Q2 2024 were Visa, PayPal, JPMorgan Chase & Co, MIH Fintech Holdings, and Fidelity National Information Services. Together they accounted for a combined share of 30% of all ecommerce-related new jobs in the banking and payments industry.

Visa posted 222 ecommerce-related new jobs in Q2 2024, PayPal 121 jobs, JPMorgan Chase & Co 100 jobs, MIH Fintech Holdings 89 jobs, and Fidelity National Information Services 86 jobs, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics.

Hiring activity was driven by the US with a 31.44% share of total new job postings, Q2 2024

The largest share of ecommerce-related new job postings in the banking and payments industry in Q2 2024 was in the US with 31.44% followed by India (12.21%) and the UK (7.80%). The share represented by the US was one percentage point higher than the 30.41% share it accounted for in Q1 2024.

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This content was updated on 28 July 2024

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