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Across a range of sectors, companies are looking for technology staff members who are schooled in artificial intelligence tools (The Wall Street Journal, subscription).
The scope: Almost 25% of U.S. technology job postings in 2025 are looking for workers who have demonstrable skills in AI, according to job-listings data.
- While the high-water mark might be the information sector, where 36% of IT jobs were AI-related in January, other sectors from retail to finance are stepping into the AI ring, too.
The turning point: The pivotal moment came near the end of 2022 when OpenAI released ChatGPT. The chatbot demonstrated that AI could be integrated into a wide variety of products and operations and began a race to hire AI-literate talent.
- According to data from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, new AI-related postings increased nearly 70% from ChatGPT’s launch until the end of 2024, even as tech postings more generally fell nearly 30% during the same time period.
The shift: Even companies that don’t typically hire a large number of tech workers are tending to skew more heavily toward prospective employees with an AI background.
- “In industries that make up a smaller share of the tech-hiring landscape, open IT roles are increasingly AI-focused. Only a fraction of health care job postings, for example, are tech jobs, but the share of new tech openings in January that were AI-related was nearly double that of a few years ago.”
The benefit: At the same time that companies are looking to scoop up new hires with an AI background, they’re also working to hang onto employees with those skills—offering higher pay and greater job security.
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