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AI Hiring Index · weekly

AI tools in UK job ads

In the week of 9 November 2026, 6.9% of UK job ads mentioned an AI tool such as Anthropic Claude or Microsoft Copilot. That is 902 of 13,056 open job ads on 9 November 2026.

Week 2026-W46 · snapshot of · from RoleFinder job ads · Urbano DX

Which AI tools the ads name

Job ads mentioning each AI tool
Tool or termUnited Kingdomads · share of all ads
LLMs and generative AI631 · 4.8%
Anthropic Claude258 · 2.0%
Microsoft Copilot167 · 1.3%
OpenAI / ChatGPT97 · 0.7%
LLM frameworks61 · 0.5%
Google Gemini34 · 0.3%
Meta Llama5 · under 0.1%
Mistral AI3 · under 0.1%

By role

Share of job ads mentioning an AI tool by role in United Kingdom
RoleOpen job adsMention an AI toolShare
AI Engineer1108476.4%
Machine Learning Engineer482041.7%
Full Stack Developer562341.1%
Data Scientist862225.6%
Software Engineer64816225.0%
Backend Developer501122.0%
Data Engineer781721.8%
Research and Science1683621.4%
Engineering Manager901921.1%
Security Engineer1132219.5%
DevOps Engineer1853116.8%
Product Manager2173315.2%
Designer1492214.8%
Java Developer35514.3%
Data Analyst1522113.8%
Consultant2933411.6%
Entry Level174179.8%
Marketing401358.7%
QA and Test Engineer6857.4%
Legal and Compliance315216.7%
Sales1,468956.5%
Customer Support348226.3%
Finance and Accounting781496.3%
HR and Recruiting272165.9%
Internship283165.7%
Operations and Supply Chain458183.9%
Project Manager305113.6%
Electrical Engineer6323.2%
Construction6423.1%
Mechanical Engineer16753.0%
Administrative21052.4%
Teaching and Education9711.0%
Healthcare42840.9%
Technician and Trades26110.4%
Retail and Hospitality1,16420.2%
Driver11400.0%
Nursing10900.0%
Manufacturing and Production7300.0%
Warehouse6400.0%
Care and Social Work5700.0%
Cleaning and Housekeeping5500.0%

Employers with the most ads mentioning AI

Employers in United Kingdom with the most job ads mentioning an AI tool
EmployerAds mentioning AIOpen job ads
BJAK24132
JPMorganChase17127
RELX1761
Capco1435
Isomorphic Labs1414
GSK1253
Lloyds Banking Group10118
Ferrovial1010
Helsing1010
Deliveroo839
Nebius838
Morgan Stanley827
Scale AI813
Light713
AlphaSense712

Week by week

Share of job ads mentioning an AI tool by week
WeekOpen job adsMention an AI toolShare
2026-W46 (week of 9 November 2026)13,0569026.9%
2026-W45 (week of 2 November 2026)12,8877245.6%

How the index is counted

  • Which ads: every job ad open on RoleFinder when the weekly snapshot ran, read from employers' own applicant tracking systems. An employer that posts the same job title in many cities counts once per country.
  • What counts: an ad whose title or description names one of the tools or terms below. "Mention an AI tool" means at least one of them, the general LLM and generative AI terms included. A mention is not an AI job: an ad can list ChatGPT among the tools a team already uses.
  • Accuracy: for each tool we read up to 100 random matching ads by hand and counted how many really meant that tool (precision below, with the number of ads read).
  • Roles are shown only where at least 30 ads are open. Employers are up to 15 with the most ads mentioning AI, each with at least 3.
  • A country gets its own figures once it has at least 2,000 open ads after removing repeats. Europe adds up 32 countries, the UK included.
  • Counted: the tool named as part of the job (a skill asked for, a tool the team uses or provides, the product or stack the role works on). Not counted: other things with the same name, AI companies named as customers, investors or partners, and notices about candidates using AI in applications or interviews.
  • A tool is not counted on its maker's own ads (OpenAI on OpenAI's, Copilot on Microsoft's and GitHub's, Gemini on Google's).
  • Job boards that re-list other companies' ads (Jobgether) are left out.
  • Employers are grouped across spellings and legal suffixes (Bosch and Robert Bosch GmbH are one). An employer whose name is only an applicant tracking board code or slug, and that could not be checked by hand, is left out of the employer tables; its ads still count in every total.
  • Coverage follows the employers RoleFinder reads (about 33,000 career sites on 2026-11-05); week to week changes include changes in that coverage.
Terms matched for each tool and their measured precision
Tool or termMatched wordsPrecision (ads read)
OpenAI / ChatGPTChatGPT, OpenAI, GPT-3.5, GPT-4, GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-599% of 100
Microsoft CopilotMicrosoft Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot, Copilot (capitalised)97% of 100
Anthropic ClaudeClaude, Anthropic (with an AI context)100% of 100
Google GeminiGemini (with an AI context)99% of 100
Meta LlamaLlama (with an AI context)100% of 12
Mistral AIMistral AI, Mistral (with an AI context)100% of 15
LLM frameworksLangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Hugging Face100% of 100
LLMs and generative AILLMs, LLM (not a law degree), large language model, generative AI, GenAI, generative KI, IA generativa, IA générative, generatywna AI, große Sprachmodelle, grands modèles de langage, modelos de lenguaje grandes, duże modele językowe99% of 100

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Source: Urbano DX AI Hiring Index, week 2026-W46, urbanodx.com/ai-hiring-index/ (CC BY 4.0)

The numbers on these pages as JSON: urbanodx.com/ai-hiring-index/data.json. New figures every week; earlier weeks stay in the trend.

Source: RoleFinder (jobs.urbanodx.com): public job ads read from employers' own applicant tracking systems. All countries and tools

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