Quarterly · all markets · 43,967 live specifications · live basis · week ending 2 October 2026
The distance between AI adoption and role design, measured every quarter.
The Verellax Index measures the distance between AI adoption and role design across 43,967 live job specifications from 283 employers across all markets, every AI-central role read on four tests, published each quarter.
Published on a date we state in advance, and never edited after.
What does Edition One find?
Edition One · Q3 2026 · as at 2 October 2026, Edition One freeze
Download Edition OneOf 57,134 roles advertised in Q3 2026 by 284 employers, all markets, 36.9% involve AI (21,084 of 57,134). Of those, 60.0% have AI at the centre of the work (12,648 of 21,084), and of those, 20.4% are accountable for what the model produces (2,585 of 12,648), as at 2 October 2026, Edition One freeze. Each figure takes the one before it as its base.
Learning systems: What employers ask people to know and do, read through the Verellax skills taxonomy. The Skills Index answers it.
Source: Verellax workforce intelligence · 57,134 roles advertised in Q3 · all markets · as at 2 October 2026, Edition One freeze
Live specs · week ending 2 October 2026
Uses AI60.5%Uses AI 60.5%Builds it 21.7%Governs it 4.5%Does not say 13.3%of roles advertised in Q3 2026 that involve AI are designed for people who use AI.n 20,480 roles advertised in Q3 2026 that involve AI · all collected specs, posting-date basis · read week ending 2 October 2026
Entry level, Australia
4.6%of live entry-level roles in Australia involve AI. Of those, 27.5% · 11 of 40 have AI at the centre of the work. Of 7,238 live roles at director and above, all markets, 39.5% involve AI, and of those, 60.5% have AI at the centre of the work.Australia · entry level · 40 of 874 · live specs · week ending 2 October 2026
Every AI-central role is then read on four tests. Accountable is one of them.
As context beside the tests, not a finding of its own: 67.7% of AI-central roles meet none of the four tests (7,144 of 10,556).
Of 10,556 AI-central roles, all markets · each test on its own · live specs · week ending 2 October 2026
Read the four testsHow is a specification scored?
The Index reads four properties of every specification: how central AI is to the role (core, supporting, peripheral, absent); how the work divides across the four layers; whether the role is a new title or a backfill; and, for an AI-central role, how it reads on the four tests.
283 employers · 43,967 live specifications · live basis · week ending 2 October 2026
Read the methodFour grades, read from the specification as written: core, where the role exists to work with the model; supporting, where the model is part of the work; peripheral, where it is mentioned but incidental; absent. Core and supporting together make a role AI-central. Of 17,241 live roles that involve AI, all markets, 10,556 have AI at the centre of the work, week ending 2 October 2026.
Every skill in the specification is classified into one of four layers: execution, coordination, judgement, or AI-adjacent. The layer shares describe the composition of the role, not a trend. Mapping coverage is stated per layer and is not yet flat across the corpus.
A new title is a role written for the first time; a backfill re-posts an existing one. The distinction separates roles that put AI at the centre of the work from AI folded into an old title, which is the redesign gap. Read on posting-date basis against the employer's own record.
Every AI-central role is then read on four tests. Accountable is one of them. Works with the model. Can overrule it. Is accountable for what it produces. Keeps decisions over it.
Which markets and sectors does it cover?
Seven named markets, plus Other markets, led by US, UK, Australia, Canada, Singapore, Ireland, New Zealand and Other markets, across eight sectors: financial services, technology, professional services, advertising agencies, AI-native, media and entertainment, consumer brands and retail, on 43,967 live specifications from 283 employers, week ending 2 October 2026. The measure by market and by sector is in Edition One.
all markets · eight sectors · 283 employers · live basis · week ending 2 October 2026
How often is it published, and what changed?
Figures re-render weekly from that week's freeze. The Index re-publishes each quarter on a stated date. Edition pages never change; corrections append as dated notes.
Live read · re-reads each Monday from that week's freeze · Edition One published · Edition Two:
Download Edition OneHow do I cite the Index?
Cite the edition and the date it was frozen. Exhibits may be reproduced in editorial coverage, in full and unaltered, with attribution, under the Verellax press grant. Corrections append to the edition page as dated notes.
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Send a correctionVerellax Index, Edition One, Q3 2026. Verellax workforce intelligence, 57,134 specifications advertised in Q3, 284 employers, all markets, as at 2 October 2026, Edition One freeze. verellax.com/index/edition-one