Demand for machine and equipment developers has sharply increased in Russia

From January to September, Russian employers posted more than 145,000 vacancies for machine and equipment developers or mechanical engineers. This is an absolute record of demand over the past five years, the press service of the hh.ru resource told Gazeta.Ru on the eve of Mechanical Engineer’s Day on September 29.

Thus, in 2019, companies posted about 56 thousand vacancies in the field of mechanical engineering. Over five years, the need for new personnel among employers in the industry has grown by 98%.

In general, the industry’s need for new personnel has been growing in recent years and is not slowing down. Thus, in 2024, compared to 2023, demand increased by 21%, compared to 2022 – by 32%, compared to 2021 – by 56%, compared to 2020 – by 73%.

The list of regions that account for two-thirds of vacancies from the total demand in mechanical engineering currently includes 15 cities at once, with Moscow (11% or more than 18 thousand vacancies since the beginning of the year), St. Petersburg (10% or 16.3 thousand), and the Moscow Region (7% or 12.4 thousand vacancies) leading this rating.

Among the leading regions in terms of the share of new vacancies in mechanical engineering, the greatest growth in demand for personnel is observed in the Moscow Region (+32% of new offers), Udmurtia (+31%) and Rostov Region (+30%).

The most in-demand profession in mechanical engineering in 2024 was topped by the turner profession – from January to September, industry companies posted almost 17 thousand vacancies for representatives of this profession. Close to them in demand is the profession of a general worker – for them in the field of heavy engineering, there were 15.6 thousand vacancies. It is noteworthy that the share of vacancies for general workers has grown the most year-on-year, namely by 3.2 percentage points. In third place in demand in the industry were fitters – 13 thousand or 8% of vacancies.

At the same time, employers in the mechanical engineering sector continued to increase the salary they offered. In 2019, the median salary offer was 52.2 thousand rubles, in 2022 it was almost 108 thousand rubles, and at the moment it is more than 150 thousand rubles. Thus, over five years, the average income offered in mechanical engineering has grown by 188%.

The study was conducted in September.

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