The Microsoft-owned social network collects in its study ‘Employments on the rise in Spain’ in which sectors it has detected a greater growth in job offers compared to the previous year.
The coronavirus came into our lives a little over a year ago to change everything. Also the labor market. Unfortunately, the unemployment data does not stop reeling between ERTEs and closures. But the change that the pandemic has clearly brought has also brought a series of sectors that have benefited.
That is what it has tried to track in one of its latest reports: ‘Employment on the Rise in Spain’. In it, he has analyzed the job offers that move in the professional social network from March to October 2020, at the peak of the pandemic and its subsequent de-escalation, and has extracted those that have had a in proportion to the same dates of the year previous.
Health, education, technology, the online world, but also psychologists, housing sales representatives or freelance workers are some of the most in-demand.
Analysts of the social network believe that the growth of these positions will not stop, and that they will continue to increase strongly throughout 2021.
The 15 sectors with the highest growth in job offers in Spain
1. Education
As educational centers in Spain have been forced to close, face-to-face education has had to be transformed into distance education and, according to Linkedin data, as a result, educational positions with digital skills have increased by 92% in 2020, where 61% of hires have been women.
What jobs are most sought after in this sector?: academic tutor, secondary school teacher, French teacher, primary school teacher, math teacher, early childhood education teacher.
2. Healthcare professionals
Specifically, there has been a 55% increase in hiring during the year 2020, of which 70% were women with an average of 27 years of age. Most were nursing positions to help combat the surge in COVID-19 cases in hospitals across the country.
What jobs are most sought after in this sector?: intensive care nurse, family doctor, emergency nurse, pediatrician, dental specialist, pharmacist, cardiologist.
3. Support toilets
For example, laboratory technical assistants and clinical trial directors have been among the most in-demand positions to help with vaccine research.
What jobs are most sought after in this sector?: laboratory assistant, medical specialist, health care assistant, pharmacy technician, laboratory technician.
4. Electronic commerce
Linkedin points out that companies like Amazon and Decathlon have added thousands of e-commerce workers, from distributors to logistics supervisors, to their ranks to ensure that their products reach the homes of their consumers. The total number of hires for this type of position experienced an increase of 70% during the years 2019 and 2020.
What jobs are most sought after in this sector?: e-commerce coordinator, distributor, logistics supervisor, warehouse team leader, online specialist.
5. Customer service
In particular, positions related to customer or technical support have been in very high demand (with companies such as Amazon or Webhelp being among the biggest employers).
What jobs are most sought after in this industry?: Customer Service Specialist, Contact Center Specialist, Customer Contact Representative, Customer Service Representative, Help Desk Advisor.
6. Real estate sector
Due to the restrictions derived from the confinement in 2020 and the transition to teleworking, many people have moved from the cities to the outskirts in search of a better quality of life. While the commercial real estate stock has suffered from great uncertainty due to business closures, the residential real estate stock has increased by 49% during 2020 compared to the previous year, as many people have been working as self-employed .
What jobs are most sought after in this sector?: real estate agent, real estate manager.
7. Experts in digital marketing
The use of the internet does not stop growing year after year, which is why companies are choosing to dedicate more resources to their digital activity. This has led to a 61% increase in hires related to digital marketing specialist positions during 2020.
What jobs are most sought after in this sector?: social media coordinator, digital marketing consultant, content generator, marketing expert.
8. Business
As the category with the highest volume of remote jobs on the list, business positions have grown by 56% during 2020. This includes the most senior positions such as business development consultants and directors of corporate strategy.
What jobs are most sought after in this industry?: Strategic Advisor, Managing Partner, Business Development Consultant, Director of Corporate Strategy, Consultant.
9. Technology
The rise of Big Tech has led to a steep rise in hiring across many industries, from retail to finance, pharmaceuticals, and energy. It’s also important to note that 85% of all 2020 hires were men with a median age of 26.
What jobs are most sought after in this sector?: Web developer, back-end developer, game developer, cloud systems architect, game designer.
10. Retail
The large supermarkets, such as Carrefour, were one of the companies that have contracted the most. In addition, the Leroy Merlin home improvement and DIY store received a large number of customers who wanted materials for their homes and gardens during the confinement period.
What jobs are most sought after in this sector?: cashier, cashier
11. Freelancers specialized in digital content
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Spanish government delayed the payment of taxes for self-employed workers in any sector that had been negatively impacted by the crisis. This tax relief received a positive response from the self-employed, such as those dedicated to digital content, a category that increased by 63% during 2020.
What jobs are most sought after in this sector?: content coordinator, blogger, YouTuber, podcaster.
12. Mental health professionals
COVID-19 has been the source of a host of psychological problems for many. In fact, in Spain, there has been a growth of 62% in the hiring of mental health professionals during the year 2020.
What jobs are most sought after in this sector?: clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, psychiatrist.
13. Specialized engineering
In 2020, engineering positions have increased by 63%, with Microsoft and IBM among the top hiring companies.
What jobs are most sought after in this industry?: Website Reliability Engineer, Software Engineering Specialist, Hardware Engineer, Computer Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer.
14. Personal and professional mentors
Most of the professionals who have become personal mentors were fitness instructors or teachers. Probably due to the closure of gyms and schools due to the pandemic.
What jobs are most sought after in this sector?: personal mentor, professional mentor.
15. Data science and artificial intelligence
Due to the technological revolution, it is no surprise that jobs in AI and data science have increased by 64% during 2020.
What jobs are most sought after in this sector?: data science specialist, artificial intelligence specialist.
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