Europe is seeing a hiring boom for machine learning positions in the rail industry

Europe was the fastest-growing region for machine learning hiring among rail industry companies in the three months to May.

The number of positions in Europe made up 20.3% of total machine learning jobs – up from 4.7% in the same quarter last year. This was followed by South and Central America, which saw a change of -0.3 percentage points year over year in machine learning roles.

The figures are compiled by GlobalData, which tracks the number of new job postings from key companies in various sectors over time. Using textual analysis, these job postings are then classified thematically.

GlobalData’s thematic approach to sector activity seeks to group key information about companies by theme to see which companies are best positioned to withstand the disruptions coming to their industries.

These key topics, which include machine learning, have been chosen to cover “every problem that keeps a CEO up at night.”

By tracking them across job postings, it allows us to see which companies are leading on specific issues and which are lagging behind – and most importantly, where the market is expanding and contracting.

Which countries are seeing the highest growth in machine learning job advertisements in the railway industry?

The fastest growing country was Hungary, which saw 0% of all machine learning job postings in the three months ending May 2021, rising to 9.3% in the three months ending May this year.

This is followed by France (with 2.9 percentage points), Spain (2.1) and Canada (1.1).

The country with the largest number of machine learning positions in the rail industry was the United States, which accounted for 58% of all positions posted in the three months ending in May.

Which cities and locations are the biggest hubs for machine learning workers in the rail industry?

About 11.7% of all machine learning roles in the rail industry were posted in Atlanta (US) in the three months ending in May.

This was followed by Budapest (Hungary) with 9.3%, San Francisco (USA) with 6.2% and Chicago (USA) with 4.5%.