Sectors
Where AI is actually being hired
SourceATS feeds, dailyMethod
Healthcare & life sciences has 22.8 open AI roles per employer — 1× the rate of the AI and software companies the industry usually counts.
Professional services scores higher still, at 154.9 per employer, but 82.8% of that is one company (Accenture) across 8 employers, so we do not quote it as a rate. Its median employer has 18.
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 open82.8% is Accenture154.91,239 open
- Healthcare & life sciences19 employers22.8434 open
- Transport & logistics14 employers, 3 with none open22.1310 open
- AI & software57 employers, 3 with none open21.81,242 open
- Media & entertainment11 employers20.5225 open
- Financial services43 employers, 4 with none open17.7759 open
- Retail & consumer19 employers, 3 with none open14.4274 open
- Industrial & manufacturing5 employers60.9% is Hitachi13.869 open
- Education11 employers, 2 with none open56.7% is Preply5.560 open
- Energy & utilities4 employers416 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 sector43 open across 1 employer (US Federal Government (USAJobs))
By region, per employer
- Europe54 employers, 5 with none open57.3% is Accenture33.21,792 open
- North America95 employers, 2 with none open25.62,429 open
- Asia Pacific21 employers, 2 with none open18.1381 open
- Latin America13 employers, 4 with none open3.545 open
- Middle East & Africa9 employers, 3 with none open62.5% is Moniepoint2.724 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.