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Where AI is actually being hired

4,250 open AI roles across 196 employers, counted from the job feeds they publish themselves. Shown per employer, because a sector where we track 5 companies and one where we track 35 cannot be compared any other way.

SourceATS feeds, dailyMethod

Healthcare & life sciences has 22.7 open AI roles per employer — 1.1× the rate of the AI and software companies the industry usually counts.

Professional services scores higher still, at 101.4 per employer, but 75.5% of that is one company (Accenture) across 8 employers, so we do not quote it as a rate. Its median employer has 20.

And outside technology, 14% of open AI roles carry titles that never say "AI" — quantitative researcher, clinical informatics, analytics engineer. Inside AI and software it is 4%. Counting only the obvious titles finds AI hiring where it is already obvious.

By sector, per employer

  1. Professional services8 employers, 1 with none open75.5% is Accenture
    101.4
    811 open
  2. Healthcare & life sciences19 employers
    22.7
    431 open
  3. Media & entertainment11 employers
    22.5
    247 open
  4. Transport & logistics14 employers, 3 with none open
    22.4
    314 open
  5. AI & software59 employers, 6 with none open
    21.1
    1,244 open
  6. Financial services44 employers, 6 with none open
    16.8
    740 open
  7. Retail & consumer19 employers, 3 with none open
    14.5
    276 open
  8. Industrial & manufacturing5 employers60.9% is Hitachi
    13.8
    69 open
  9. Education11 employers, 3 with none open63.2% is Preply
    5.2
    57 open
  10. Energy & utilities4 employers
    3.8
    15 open
  11. Bar length is open AI roles per tracked employer. Solid is core AI; pale is AI-adjacent. The tick is the median employer — the further it sits from the bar's end, the more of the sector is one company.

Too thinly covered to rank

Fewer than 3 employers each, so a per-employer figure here is one company's hiring plan rather than a sector's rate. Published with the count they rest on, and left out of the ranking above.

  • Public sector35 open across 1 employer (US Federal Government (USAJobs))
  • Telecom11 open across 1 employer (Comcast)

By region, per employer

  1. North America96 employers, 4 with none open
    25.5
    2,446 open
  2. Europe55 employers, 6 with none open
    24.7
    1,357 open
  3. Asia Pacific23 employers, 3 with none open
    16.8
    386 open
  4. Latin America13 employers, 6 with none open
    2.8
    37 open
  5. Middle East & Africa9 employers, 3 with none open54.2% is Moniepoint
    2.7
    24 open
  6. Bar length is open AI roles per tracked employer. Solid is core AI; pale is AI-adjacent. The tick is the median employer — the further it sits from the bar's end, the more of the sector is one company.

How to read this

Employers with no open AI role stay in the denominator. Dropping them would be the easiest way to make AI hiring look universal — if an employer only entered the sample once it posted an AI job, the sample could never contain the finding that most employers post none.

Cells marked indicative hold too few employers to read as a measurement. Telecom is one company; most large carriers run applicant tracking systems with no public feed. We publish the figure and the reason it is thin rather than hiding the row.

These are open roles, not hires, and a posting is an employer's intent rather than an outcome. The panel and its gaps are listed on the employers page; what counts as an AI role, and where the core/adjacent line falls, is set out in the methodology.