September 30, 2019
Artificial intelligence to drive the next generation of jobs
The uptake of artificial intelligence by businesses will transform the UK job market in the near future and will create around 133 million new jobs worldwide. The findings come from a new report called Harnessing the Power of AI: The Demand for Future Skills (registration) from recruiter Robert Walters and market analysts Vacancy Soft.
The report claims that in the UK alone, up to a third of jobs will be automated or likely to change as a result of the emergence of AI – impacting 10.5 million workers.Demand for Data Professionals
IT professionals dedicated to data management appear to be the fastest growing area within large or global entities, with volumes increasing ten-fold in three years – an increase in vacancies of 160 percent since 2015. More generally, data roles across the board have increased by 80 percent since 2015 – with key areas of growth including data scientists and engineers.
What has been the most interesting to see is the emergence of data scientist as a mainstream profession – with job vacancies increasing by a staggering 110 percent year-on-year. The same trend can be seen with data engineers, averaging 86 percent year-on-year job growth.
New roles
The rise of cybercrime has resulted in professional services – particularly within banking and financial services – hiring aggressively for information security professionals since 2016, however since then volumes have held steady.
Within professional services, vacancies for data analysts (+19.5 percent), data manager (+64.2 percent), data scientist (+28.8), and data engineer (+62 percent) have all increased year-on-year.
According to the report, the top industries already investing in AI are:
- Agriculture
- Business Support
- Customer Experience
- Energy
- Healthcare
- Intellectual Property
- IT Service Management
- Manufacturing
- Technical Support
- Retail
- Software Development
