Jobs requiring AI skills are growing over five times (83%) faster since 2019 than the total jobs market (16%), according to PwC’s 2026 AI Jobs Barometer published on Monday. 

The report which analysed more than one billion job ads across six continents, including Ireland. It found that AI is driving a ‘two-track’ global labour market with ‘professionalised’ roles - in which AI automates routine tasks, placing emphasis on human judgement and expertise - are growing faster than roles ‘democratised’ by AI – in which AI makes the role itself easier for non-experts to perform. 

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