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Indeed report flags growing need for GenAI skills
28 January 2025
The share of remote or hybrid working jobs in Ireland has reached a record high despite return-to-office mandates at several well-known companies according to the 2025 Irish Jobs & Hiring Trends Report from Indeed.
The share of Irish job postings mentioning remote or hybrid work rose to 17.5% at the end of December 2024, more than four times that recorded prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. This increases to 41% for software development jobs posted were either fully remote or hybrid, behind the media & communications and insurance sectors tied at 43%.
Indeed found a close correlation between the job categories attracting the highest attention from abroad and those that are the hardest to fill. The data shows that engineering, tech, professional and agriculture occupations are among the most difficult for employers to recruit for.
The share of job postings open for more than 60 days on average is highest in civil engineering at 46%, followed by industrial engineering (38%), software development (35%) and insurance (34%).
The Trends Report also showed that employers are increasingly seeking to harness generative AI (GenAI) across a range of sectors. Job postings referring to the creation or use of GenAI tools have been rising from a near-standing start around the time of the ChatGPT launch in late 2022 and continue to gain momentum.
The GenAI share in Ireland now stands at around 0.7% of all job postings. While this is still a small and volatile number of jobs overall, it is a high share relative to other countries and reflects the sizeable footprint of the tech sector in the Irish economy.
The highest share is found in the mathematics category where 7.9% of postings mention GenAI. This category includes jobs for analysts, data scientists and data modellers. Mathematics is followed by software development (4.8%), production & manufacturing (2.2%) and media & communications (2.1%).
Jack Kennedy, senior economist at Indeed and author of the Trends Report, said: “Ireland’s tech-heavy economy means the country is an early leader in GenAI adoption, with companies across many sectors increasingly integrating the technology into their workstreams. If this trend is to continue to develop, it will require the ongoing availability of skilled staff and/or upskilling existing workforces to harness GenAI’s potential.”
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