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AI Hiring Index · weekly

AI tools in UK job ads

In the week of 2 November 2026, 5.6% of UK job ads mentioned an AI tool such as Anthropic Claude or Microsoft Copilot. That is 724 of 12,887 open job ads on 5 November 2026.

Week 2026-W45 · 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 AI504 · 3.9%
Anthropic Claude218 · 1.7%
Microsoft Copilot132 · 1.0%
OpenAI / ChatGPT81 · 0.6%
LLM frameworks49 · 0.4%
Google Gemini26 · 0.2%
Meta Llama3 · under 0.1%
Mistral AI2 · 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 Engineer996969.7%
Full Stack Developer461941.3%
Machine Learning Engineer391435.9%
Engineering Manager761722.4%
Software Engineer57911920.6%
Data Scientist831720.5%
Backend Developer44920.5%
Security Engineer1031817.5%
Designer1262116.7%
Data Engineer681116.2%
Research and Science1742313.2%
DevOps Engineer1872412.8%
Product Manager1952010.3%
QA and Test Engineer6258.1%
Consultant278227.9%
Marketing383287.3%
Data Analyst13996.5%
Customer Support338195.6%
HR and Recruiting250145.6%
Internship281155.3%
Sales1,363725.3%
Entry Level194105.2%
Legal and Compliance304154.9%
Electrical Engineer6734.5%
Finance and Accounting808344.2%
Operations and Supply Chain435184.1%
Project Manager28593.2%
Construction6723.0%
Administrative22720.9%
Technician and Trades25320.8%
Mechanical Engineer16110.6%
Healthcare52930.6%
Retail and Hospitality1,15100.0%
Nursing17600.0%
Driver12300.0%
Teaching and Education10200.0%
Manufacturing and Production6900.0%
Cleaning and Housekeeping6600.0%
Warehouse6300.0%
Care and Social Work5600.0%

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
RELX1657
Kaluza1125
Ferrovial1111
BJAK1058
Salesforce930
Lloyds Banking Group8112
Deliveroo843
Isomorphic Labs88
Mark4388
OLIVER Agency88
Wise767
Version 1724
IFS721
Welo Global79
ASOS631

Week by week

This is the first weekly snapshot, so there is no trend yet. It starts with the next one, due on Monday 9 November 2026 (week 2026-W46), and each week adds a row here.

Earlier weeks are not rebuilt from old ads on purpose: RoleFinder reads more career sites each week, so a rebuilt series would show its coverage growing, not employers hiring.

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-W45, 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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