Sectors
Where AI is actually being hired
SourceATS feeds, dailyMethod
Transport & logistics has 24.9 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scores higher still, at 98.5 per employer, but 76.1% of that is one company (Accenture) across 8 employers, so we do not quote it as a rate. Its median employer has 16.5.
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
- Professional services8 employers, 1 with none open76.1% is Accenture98.5788 open
- Transport & logistics14 employers, 3 with none open24.9348 open
- AI & software56 employers, 1 with none open221,234 open
- Healthcare & life sciences19 employers20.7394 open
- Media & entertainment11 employers18.3201 open
- Financial services42 employers, 3 with none open17715 open
- Industrial & manufacturing5 employers63% is Hitachi14.673 open
- Retail & consumer19 employers, 2 with none open13.4254 open
- Education11 employers, 2 with none open66% is Preply4.853 open
- Energy & utilities4 employers50% is Shell3.514 open
- 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 sector42 open across 1 employer (US Federal Government (USAJobs))
By region, per employer
- North America95 employers, 2 with none open25.82,447 open
- Europe54 employers, 3 with none open23.21,255 open
- Asia Pacific20 employers, 2 with none open17.5349 open
- Latin America12 employers, 2 with none open4.250 open
- Middle East & Africa9 employers, 3 with none open1.715 open
- 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.