What impact is AI having on the job market?
Everyone has an opinion, but there’s surprisingly little hard data.
Instead, what we have are very general studies that analyze broad sectors, and studies that just look at a specific segment like young workers.
So I decided to perform my own study. I analyzed nearly 180 million global job postings from January 2023 to October 2025, using data from Revealera, a provider of jobs data. While I acknowledge not all job postings result in a hire, and some are ‘ghost jobs’, since I was comparing the relative growth in job titles, this didn’t seem like a big issue to me.
I simply wanted to know which specific job titles declined or grew the most in 2025, compared to 2024. Because those were likely to be ones that AI is impacting the most.
For those that are busy, you can jump to a specific section of this study you’re interested in. The exact methodology I used is in the very bottom too.
1. Total Job Postings declined 8% in 2025
First, let’s establish our benchmark: job postings dropped 8% in 2025 compared to the same period in 2024. Indeed reported a 7.3% year-over-year decline for US jobs recently, so this was a good sanity check, and told me that my data most likely was comprehensive.
Why does this 8% number matter? Because it’s our baseline. When we look at individual job titles and their % change, we need to know: are they following the market down, or are they getting hit harder?
Could AI be partly responsible for this overall 8% decline? Maybe – but that’s nearly impossible to separate from macro factors. So this analysis focuses on jobs with dramatic deviations from the market trend, where AI’s impact is most clear.
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