Unmanned Aerial Vehicle The latest drone news
As of July 1, 2018, there are a whopping 95,268 FAA-certified distant pilots within the United States.
So the place are all these pilots discovering work?
According to a latest report by Skyward, among the sectors the place drone adoption is rising are Construction & Engineering, Government, and Transportation & Warehousing.
Source: Skyward’s Report on the State of Drone’s in Big Business
SkyLogic Research additionally launched a report again in October that regarded on the areas the place drone service suppliers are working.
That report revealed that two of the first areas for drone service suppliers have been Aerial Videography and Surveying—which is fascinating, as a result of these areas don’t instantly align with the Skyward report, which checked out the place the roles really are for drone pilots (as opposed to trying on the drone providers being provided by drone pilots).
This data means that there are lots of missed alternatives for drone pilots to take up new kinds of work. Our new information to drone jobs may assist shut the hole.
Source: SkyLogic Research’s 2017 Drone Market Sector Report
Despite all these information factors, drone jobs can nonetheless appear fairly summary in the event you haven’t carried out them.
Even for drone pilots, in the event you’ve by no means carried out, say, mapping for a building website, you may marvel—what does that sort of labor really appear to be on the bottom?
Our In-Depth Guide to Drone Jobs
To make issues extra concrete when it comes to the kind of work being carried out within the drone trade—and to assist individuals hunt for jobs—we simply launched an enormous, in-depth information to jobs within the drone trade.
The information takes an in depth take a look at the highest 11 sectors the place drone pilots are discovering work, in addition to offers a number of sources for these on the lookout for work within the drone trade, both as a pilot or in different, non-pilot roles at drone firms.
Here’s an summary of what’s coated in our new useful resource, Drone Jobs Guide: How and Where to Find Work as a Drone Pilot or Industry Professional.
The Top 11 Sectors Where Drone Pilots Are Finding Work
For every sector included within the information, we cowl:
- An outline of the work within the sector coated, together with particulars about seasonality, what the work really seems like on the bottom, and the kinds of talent units wanted to do the work.
- The pay vary for these doing work within the sector coated.
- The kinds of drones and software program pilots suggest utilizing for work within the sector coated.
- The missions drone pilots sometimes fly on this sector.
- Any further sources we’ve been in a position to observe down associated to the kind of work being coated.
A fast observe—there are many different locations the place drone pilots are working. However, for the needs of this useful resource, we wished to record the highest sectors, as uncovered in our analysis and in our conversations with our college students and neighborhood members.
Here are our prime 11 sectors the place drone pilots are discovering work—click on on every one to be taken to the corresponding part in our new information:
Job Hunting Resources
In addition to masking the completely different sectors the place drone pilots are discovering work, we additionally wished to present data that will assist individuals on the lookout for work.
To do that, we devoted 4 chapters of our Drone Jobs information to completely different points of discovering work within the drone trade.
Drone Pilot Work
If you need to construct your personal drone enterprise, we now have a listing of seven issues to think about to assist you to get began, together with issues like getting drone insurance coverage, tackling flight proficiency, and doing a little preliminary enterprise planning.
And in our part on discovering work by drone pilot networks, we cowl some the reason why pilots be a part of networks whereas increase their very own clientele, in addition to a listing of among the prime pilot networks on the market.
Other Jobs within the Drone Industry
Of course, working within the drone trade doesn’t simply imply you’re flying a drone. The trade is rising, and there are many firms on the market trying to rent individuals in every kind of positions, from advertising and marketing and gross sales, to HR, to product improvement, and extra.
We’ve listed out 25+ rising firms in varied sectors of the drone trade which might be hiring proper now, and supplied hyperlinks instantly to their careers web page to assist you to along with your job hunt. If you’ve been trying to break right into a job within the drone trade, however you don’t essentially need to fly a drone, we hope this record is a useful useful resource in your hunt.
And lastly, simply in case you want much more instruments to assist you to discover your dream drone job, we’ve included a search device within the information that populates all of the completely different drone jobs on the market within the U.S.
The jobs listed right here current a variety of alternatives within the trade, from pilot positions, to information administration, to engineering and past.
Want to be taught extra? Explore our new Drone Jobs information right here.
Zacc Dukowitz
Director of Marketing
Zacc Dukowitz is the Director of Marketing for UAV Coach. A author with skilled expertise in training know-how and digital advertising and marketing, Zacc is obsessed with reporting on the drone trade at a time when UAVs may also help us reside higher lives. Zacc additionally holds the rank of nidan in Aikido, a Japanese martial artwork, and is a extensively revealed fiction author. Zacc has an MFA from the University of Florida and a BA from St. John’s College. Follow @zaccdukowitz or try zaccdukowitz.com to learn his work.
