Which skills will still matter in 2 years ?
We analysed 7,554 job listings
across 428 companies and classified every skill by AI impact.
Market Pulse
The Machine is Hungry
16 weeks of hiring data reveal the scale of AI-era talent demand.
Hiring velocity over 16 weeks Area chart showing weekly job posting volume. Peak week had 2,830 postings. 0 500 1,000 1,500 2,000 2,500 3,000 2025-49 2026-00 2026-03 2026-06 2026-09
65% of organisations now use GenAI
McKinsey Workplace Survey, 2025 — doubled in 10 months
Market Structure
Engineering is the Engine
But 11 other sectors are shifting. Bar length shows job volume across 428 companies.
Job categories ranked by number of listings Horizontal bar chart showing 12 job categories. Engineering leads with 4,711 jobs, followed by sales with 628. 0 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 engineering 4,711 sales 628 operations 540 finance 405 marketing 335 it 204 design 198 consulting 120 hr 111 retail 110 legal 70 manufacturing 58
The Vanguard
Who is Actually Hiring?
Hiring intensity by company Lollipop chart showing open roles as percentage of headcount. Anthropic leads at 89%. Anthropic 89% Mistral AI 36.6% Perplexity AI 23.1% Hugging Face 7.6% Playground Games 6.9% Epic Games 6.4% Valve Corporation 6.4% Electronic Arts 5.2% Scale AI 5% McLaren Automotive 1.1% Google DeepMind 1% Synthesia 0.9% BlackRock 0.5% Honda Aircraft Company 0.3% Logitech 0.2%
Workers with AI skills earn 56% more
PwC Global AI Jobs Barometer, 2025 — up from 25% in 2024
Experience Distribution
AI is Squeezing Out the Junior
Senior roles dominate hiring. Entry-level positions are shrinking as AI handles junior work.
Experience level distribution Horizontal bar chart. Senior: 3,426, Mid: 2,000, Entry: 1,429. executive 111 1.5% staff 381 5.2% senior 3,426 46.6% mid 2,000 27.2% entry 1,429 19.5%
Technical skill half-life: 2 years by 2030
Gartner, January 2026 — down from 8 years
The Skill Matrix
Threatened, Amplified, or Immune
Every skill in the dataset, classified by AI impact. Node size = demand.
Filter by sector to see your industry.
All Sectors engineering sales operations finance marketing it design retail hr consulting
Skills classified by AI impact Beeswarm chart with three swimlanes: AI-Threatened (top, 3 skills), AI-Amplified (middle, 16 skills), AI-Proof (bottom, 10 skills). Node size represents demand. AI-Threatened AI-Amplified AI-Proof ← Less in demand More in demand → python communication c++ data analysis machine learning java problem-solving sql communication skills javascript c# leadership data science ai teamwork analytical skills cloud computing collaboration customer service excel ms office kubernetes software development product management english sales problem-solving skills devops distributed systems
AI-Threatened — AI replaces this skill AI-Amplified — more valuable with AI
AI-Proof — uniquely human
The Automation Premium
Where the Money Resides
Salary ranges by sector. The highest-paying categories are AI-amplified, not AI-threatened.
Full salary data → Salary ranges by sector Dumbbell chart showing salary ranges. Highest median: legal at $262k. Lowest: retail at $36k. $0 $200k $400k $600k $800k legal $262k engineering $207k finance $184k sales $183k marketing $163k design $153k hr $141k it $129k consulting $105k manufacturing $63k operations $45k retail $36k
0.92 correlation between human expertise and AI output quality
AI amplifies strong foundations. Invest in domain knowledge, not just tools.
Skills of Tomorrow
What's Not in the Data Yet
These skills barely appear in current listings, but research says they'll define the next wave.
Agentic Workflow Orchestration
Managing multi-agent AI pipelines that execute complex business processes autonomously.
AI Governance & Risk
Evaluating AI output for bias, hallucination, and regulatory compliance.
Data Curation for RAG
Preparing and sanitising proprietary data to feed retrieval-augmented generation models.
Learning Velocity
The meta-skill: unlearning old methods and adopting new frameworks faster than the market.
Methodology. Data sourced from 7,554 enriched job listings
across 428 companies via YubHub 's AI enrichment pipeline
(2025-12-08 to 2026-03-20).
Skill classifications (AI-Threatened / AI-Amplified / AI-Proof) based on
the Autor-Levy-Murnane task framework, the AIOE Index (Felten, Raj, Seamans),
the WEF Future of Jobs Report 2025, and PwC's Global AI Jobs Barometer 2025.
Salary data normalised to USD. Categories normalised from 65 raw labels to 12 canonical sectors.