Which Engineering Disciplines Have the Most Job Openings?

Here’s a look into the engineering job market at this moment. There are more than 300,000 current jobs listed on EngineeringJobs.com. These are dispersed across 32 different engineering disciplines. Not all disciplines are in demand. More than half of all the jobs are for software engineers, while solar engineers are looking at a whopping 37 jobs across the US and Canada.

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We’ve taken a look at 15 of those disciplines relevant to Design News readers. We’ve skipped those disciplines with a ridiculously low number of openings (such as solar engineering) and those with little relevance to our readers (architectural engineering and civil engineering). Some of the categories fall into job function (project engineering) as opposed to a specific discipline, such as mechanical engineering.

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Most of these 1,046 jobs are mid-level, and they’re scattered across the US and Canada.
(Source: engr.sjsu.edu)

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Rob Spiegel has covered automation and control for 15 years, 12 of them for Design News. Other topics he has covered include supply chain technology, alternative energy, and cyber security. For 10 years he was owner and publisher of the food magazine, Chile Pepper.