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Each report is modular — employment, finance, markets and skills stay deliberately separate, so they can be read on their own or cross-referenced depending on what's needed.
2002–2026, seven engineering segments. The net automotive job loss is concentrated in the last five years, driven by Germany and the VW Group galaxy; Defense/Aerospace flips sign between 2022 and 2026. Includes the structural blind spot of Electronics/Semiconductors: the ERM data only captures restructuring of the existing workforce, not hiring plans that were never realized.
7 sectors, N≥3 companies per cell filter, 2022–2025 window via public financial statement data. Defense/Aerospace +6.6pp of EBITDA margin, Energy +2.8, Mechanical/Automation +2.0; Automotive −6.2pp with rising leverage — a sign of stress, not just transition. Electronics/Semiconductors declining despite the AI narrative.
January–July 2026: how the seven sectors reacted on the stock market to the Iran-Israel war, the US tariffs ruling and the NATO summit in Ankara. With a dedicated deep dive on the Defense/Aerospace segment, the most exposed to the half-year's news cycle.
16,386 postings, 93 companies, seven engineering sectors. What job postings actually ask for — and how real the Automotive → Defense/Aerospace pivot is, read skill by skill, not by synthetic similarity.
A dedicated analysis of the Volkswagen Group ecosystem and the "Zukunft Volkswagen" announcement of December 2024 — reductions through 2030 via natural turnover.
Extending the financial benchmarking window beyond the structural 4-year cap, with manual extraction for companies with the most linear M&A history.
Why the automotive-defense pivot holds up on real skill adjacency, while the automotive-AI pivot doesn't hold up on the numbers: AI pays 2-3 times more but hires in much smaller absolute numbers, and scales without proportional headcount growth.
Commissioned research on individual companies, countries or segments, with the same methodological standard as the public reports.