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# 13.2% of US information-sector job postings asked for AI skills in 2025, up from 7.8%
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/us-ai-job-postings-by-sector/
- Published: 2026-10-19T16:26:23.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:02:27.000Z
- Description: AI skills appeared in 13.2% of US information-sector job postings in 2025, up from 7.8% and the highest of 15 sectors. The share rose in every sector.
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, AI Jobs, AI in the US, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-jobs, #country-us

13.2%

share of US information-sector job postings asking for AI skills in 2025, up from 7.8% in 2024

Information sector

202513.2%

20247.8%

## What the chart shows

The information sector had the highest share of job postings asking for AI skills in 2025: 13.2%, up from 7.8% in 2024\. Professional, scientific and technical services (6.5%), finance and insurance (5.3%) and manufacturing (4.7%) followed.

The share rose in all 15 sectors. It doubled in management of companies and enterprises, from 1.6% to 3.3%, and nearly doubled in real estate, from 1.1% to 2.1%. Waste management and administrative support services had the lowest share, 0.5%.

## Key numbers

| Measure                                               | Value  |
| ----------------------------------------------------- | ------ |
| Information, 2025                                     | 13.22% |
| Information, 2024                                     | 7.82%  |
| Professional, scientific and technical services, 2025 | 6.49%  |
| Finance and insurance, 2025                           | 5.33%  |
| Manufacturing, 2025                                   | 4.66%  |
| Waste management and administrative support, 2025     | 0.46%  |

## How to read it

- Sectors are two-digit NAICS codes. Shares are AI job postings as a percentage of all job postings in each sector.
- Changes in the text are in percentage points; the AI Index chart labels give relative changes (+69% for information).

**Source:** [Lightcast](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#lightcast), 2025, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 4.4.9: *AI job postings (% of all job postings) in the United States by sector, 2024 vs. 2025*. Chart and text by AI Adoption.  
Numbers checked against the published data on 20 October 2026.  
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