The global sports industry experienced an 8% drop in new job postings related to digital payments in Q4 2023 compared with the previous quarter, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics. This compares to a 3% decrease versus Q4 2022. GlobalData’s Sport: Hiring Trends & Signals Q4 2023 report reveals comprehensive insights into hiring patterns, job roles, required skills, geographical trends, and key themes within the sport industry, facilitating anticipation of future workforce needs. Buy the report here.
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Notably, Office and Administrative Support Occupations jobs accounted for a 27% share of the global sports industry’s digital payments-related total new job postings in Q4 2023, down 21% over the prior quarter.
Office and Administrative Support Occupations drive digital payments-related hiring activity
Office and Administrative Support Occupations, with a share of 27%, emerged as the top digital payments-related job roles within the sports industry in Q4 2023, with new job postings drop by 21% quarter-on-quarter. Business and Financial Operations Occupations came in second with a share of 17% in Q4 2023, with new job postings dropping by 7% over the previous quarter.
The other prominent digital payments roles include Management Occupations with a 16% share in Q4 2023, Computer and Mathematical Occupations with a 12% share of new job postings.
Top five companies in sports industry accounted for 73% of hiring activity
The top companies, in terms of number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, as of Q4 2023 were Visa, Wells Fargo & Co, Bank of America, Cadence Bank, and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. Together they accounted for a combined share of 73% of all digital payments-related new jobs in the sports industry.
Visa posted 2,517 digital payments-related new jobs in Q4 2023, Wells Fargo & Co 1,324 jobs, Bank of America 1,134 jobs, Cadence Bank 1,056 jobs, and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce 957 jobs, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics.
Hiring activity was driven by the US with a 59.12% share of total new job postings, Q4 2023
The largest share of digital payments-related new job postings in the sports industry in Q4 2023 was in the US with 59.12% followed by Canada (12.98%) and India (11.77%). The share represented by the US was five percentage points lower than the 64.38% share it accounted for in Q3 2023.
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