Financial services names who overrules the model more often than any other sector, and still leaves it unwritten in 45.7% of its AI roles.
The second-largest sector in the corpus, evidenced in Australia, the UK, and the US.
Across 6,905 live financial services specifications from 50 employers, as at 14 September 2026. Australia 1,212 · United States 4,120 · United Kingdom 1,089 · other markets 484.
Where a cell falls under 50 specifications the share is held and counts print beside shares. AI-central share moves with market mix; the market is named beside every share.
How many financial services specifications mention AI
Of 6,905 live financial services specifications from 50 employers as at 14 September 2026, 1,387 have AI core or supporting the work, 20.1%. The corpus average across 24,944 live specifications is 22.7%, the counterfactual for every sector figure on this page.
How financial services compares across markets
Evidenced cells: Australia 1,212, United States 4,120, United Kingdom 1,089. The remaining 484 live specifications sit in the other eight markets and print once in the footer.
How AI reaches the entry level in financial services
Entry and director-and-above cells print counts beside shares, and any cell under 50 is suppressed and stated. Both figures resolve from the sector block at build.
The pathway, across marketsHow many financial services AI roles define who overrules the model
Of 1,387 AI-central financial services specifications, 634 say nothing about who can overrule the model, 45.7%.
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Which skills financial services asks for
Layer shares are the average across the sector's live specifications of the share of each role's work in that layer. The top five sub-categories and the governance-to-tool-use ratio resolve from the sector block at build.
The four layers, definedTop five sub-categories: internal orchestration, domain knowledge, functional craft, operational judgement, technical execution. Governance against tool use: 732 against 2,387.
How this is measured
Live basis. Employers are never named against a figure; the verbatim is attributed to sector, market and month. A page publishes at 150 live specifications; a cell from 50 prints inside its parent with counts beside shares; under 50 it is suppressed and stated.
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