The United Kingdom hires for the least execution of any major market and writes AI into roles at nearly twice the Australian rate.
The governance comparator: the market whose sector mix is closest to Australia's and whose result is furthest from it.
Across 2,795 live United Kingdom specifications from 109 employers, as at 14 September 2026.
Where a cell falls under 50 specifications the share is held and counts print beside shares. AI-central share moves with sector mix; the sector cell is named beside every share.
How many United Kingdom specifications mention AI
755 of 2,795, 27.0%. Sector mix: financial services 1,089, advertising and agencies 773, technology 540. The three cells are near-equal, and none is AI-native, so the United Kingdom share is the least composition-driven of the high-adoption markets.
Which United Kingdom sectors write AI into roles
Financial services is the largest United Kingdom cell at 1,089 of 2,795 live specifications, and it writes the oversight-language pattern seen in Australia. Agencies are second at 773, which is where the agency mirror finding (the seller is not ahead of the buyer) is best tested.
How AI centrality changes by seniority in the United Kingdom
Entry level: 18 of 120 (15.0%). Director: 74 of 297 (24.9%). Only Ireland writes AI into more of its entry-level roles. Australia, on 608 entry specifications, writes it into 1.3%. The United Kingdom entry cell is small, 120, and the finding is stated with its count.
How many United Kingdom AI roles define who overrules the model
Of 755 AI-central specifications, 347 have no decision architecture, 46.0%. The United Kingdom adopts at the United States rate and governs at a slightly lower one. The financial services cell carries the most oversight language in the market and, as in Australia, most of it is documentation rather than authority.
How the United Kingdom compares with Australia and Singapore
Execution load 44.5%, the second-lowest in the corpus after Singapore's 42.9%; judgement 23.0%, second-highest after Singapore's 23.9%. New roles are 10.7% of the base, the highest of the three largest markets. The United Kingdom is redesigning more of its roles, hiring for more judgement, and writing AI in more often, and it names authority less often than Australia does.
How this is measured
Live basis. Functions: engineering 706, operations 581, sales 478, near-equal.
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