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.
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.
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.
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.
Only the Australian cell is evidenced. The comparison is thin and shows what clears.
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 marketsHow 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 testshelping 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
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, definedTop five sub-categories: functional craft, domain knowledge, external orchestration, internal orchestration, operational judgement. Governance against tool use: 32 against 218.
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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