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Professional services is an Australian sector, and its market comparison is thin by design.

Nine employers. Only the Australian cell is evidenced; the comparators print as counts or are suppressed.

Across 546 live professional services specifications from 9 employers, as at 14 September 2026. Australia 477 · United States 36 · United Kingdom 21 · other markets 12.

Sectors · professional-services · as at 14 September 2026 · live basis
Live specifications5469 employers · as at 14 September 2026
AI-central16.7%91 of 546 · live basis
No decision architecture64.8%59 of 91 AI-central
Execution load43.5%average share of the work a model absorbs first
The caveat that travels with every figure

Professional services is an Australian sector. Its United States and United Kingdom cells are under 50, so the market comparison is one evidenced bar with disclosed thin comparators.

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How many professional services specifications mention AI

Of 546 live professional services specifications from 9 employers as at 14 September 2026, 91 have AI core or supporting the work, 16.7%. The corpus average across 24,944 live specifications is 22.7%, the counterfactual for every sector figure on this page.

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How professional services compares across markets

Only the Australian cell is evidenced: 477 of 546 live specifications. The United States cell is 36 and the United Kingdom cell 21, both under 50 and suppressed. The comparison is thin by design and the exhibit shows what clears.

Professional services across markets: AI-central share against no decision architecture
each base disclosed beneath the pair · directional at 35% · suppressed absent and named
Australia477 live · evidenced
held
held

Only the Australian cell is evidenced. The comparison is thin and shows what clears.

AI-central shareNo decision architecture, of AI-central
Source: Verellax workforce intelligence · 546 Professional services live specifications · other markets 12 · live basis · as at 14 September 2026 · United States cell suppressed, 36 live specifications, below the 150 floor · United Kingdom cell suppressed, 21 live specifications, below the 150 floor
03

How AI reaches the entry level in professional 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 markets
AI-central share, entry level against director and above
Professional services · cells under 50 print as counts · live basis
Entry level32 live
held
Director and above62 live
29.0%
Source: Verellax workforce intelligence · 546 Professional services live specifications · live basis · as at 14 September 2026
04

How many professional services AI roles define who overrules the model

Of 91 AI-central professional services specifications, 59 say nothing about who can overrule the model, 64.8%.

Verbatim · one live AI-central specification · scores zero on the four tests

helping them use strong governance not only to manage risk

Professional services · Australia · August 2026 · scores zero on the four tests · company not inside a notice window
05

Which skills professional 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, defined
How the work divides across the layers
Professional services · average share of each role's work · live basis
Execution
43.5%
Coordination
27.0%
Judgement
24.2%
AI-adjacent
5.4%

Top five sub-categories: functional craft, domain knowledge, external orchestration, internal orchestration, operational judgement. Governance against tool use: 32 against 218.

Source: Verellax workforce intelligence · 546 Professional services live specifications · live basis · as at 14 September 2026
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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.

Full method at /method
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Source: Verellax workforce intelligence · 546 Professional services live specifications · live basis · as at 14 September 2026
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