How many live roles in Australia involve AI?
955 of 4,327 live roles in Australia involve AI. 22.1% · of live roles that involve AI · live specs · week ending 2 October 2026.
Across 4,327 live specs in Australia from 165 employers, week ending 2 October 2026. Each role is read on whether it involves AI, whether AI sits at the centre of the work, and whether the role is accountable for what the model produces.
A cell under 30 live specs prints its counts and no share; under 150, its count and base print beside its share. Every share moves with sector mix, and this page names the market’s sector cells beside its figures.
How many Australian specifications involve AI
Involved: 955 of 4,327 live roles in Australia involve AI, 22.1% of live roles that involve AI (live specs, week ending 2 October 2026).
Central: of those 955 roles that involve AI, 500 have AI at the centre of the work, 52.4% of roles that involve AI where AI sits at the centre of the work.
Accountable: of those 500 AI-central roles, 99 are accountable for what the model produces, 19.8% of AI-central roles accountable for what the model produces.
Beside the three measures, as context and not as a measure, on the base of all live roles: 500 of 4,327 (11.6%) live roles in Australia are AI-central.
Which sectors make up the Australian base
Sector mix: financial services 1,364, technology 861, retail 367, media and entertainment 195, advertising agencies 181, consumer brands 176, AI-native 57. Sector cells with fewer than 10 employers in Australia are held: 1,126 live specs sit in them. Every figure on this page is for the market as a whole, and its sector mix is named here beside it.
Sector cells with fewer than 10 employers in Australia are held: 1,126 live specs sit in them.
Where AI lands by seniority in Australia
Entry level: 40 of 874 (4.6%) live roles in Australia involve AI; of those, 11 of 40 (27.5%) have AI at the centre of the work.
Director and above: 114 of 399 (28.6%) live roles in Australia involve AI; of those, 59 of 114 (51.8%) have AI at the centre of the work.
Week ending 2 October 2026.
How Australian AI-central roles read on the four tests
Every AI-central role is then read on four tests. Accountable is one of them.
Of 500 AI-central roles in Australia, week ending 2 October 2026, each test on its own: works with the model, 93 of 500 (18.6%); can overrule it, 69 of 500 (13.8%); is accountable for what it produces, 99 of 500 (19.8%); keeps decisions over it, 165 of 500 (33.0%).
Beside the four tests, as context: 335 of 500 meet none of the four tests (67.0%).
Beside the four tests: 335 of 500 meet none of the four tests (67.0%).
How this is measured
Live specs: roles open at the freeze, de-duplicated, and read the same way in every market. Each measure's share is on the measure before it, and a figure under a floor prints its counts.
Full methodIs this a net-new seat at the company, or a backfill?
Of 500 AI-central roles in Australia: new (confirmed) 32.0%; backfill (confirmed) 15.6%; backfill (inferred) 52.4%, week ending 2 October 2026.