Difficulties hiring for AI related roles from 2019

From 2019 to 2022, the greatest increase in difficulty when hiring AI-related roles was among data engineers, where 57 percent of respondents said they had difficulties hiring for that position. Closely behind were translators, with 56 percent claiming to be much more difficult or somewhat more difficult to hire for positions within that skillset over the 3 years.

Perceived company difficulties in hiring artificial intelligence (AI) related roles worldwide from 2019 to 2022, by function

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Release date

December 2022

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

3-7 May and 15-17 August, 2022

Number of respondents

1,492 respondents

Special properties

Participants represented the full range of regions, industries, company sizes, functional specialties, and tenures.

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

This question was phrased by the source as follows: "Difficulty in organizations' hiring of AI-related roles, past 3 years, % of respondents"
Source notes that: "numbers may not round up to 100% because those who responded "don't know" were not counted"

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