Driven by recent technological advances and rapid commercial adoption, artificial intelligence (AI) This not only made business headlines but also the entire world. However, is all the interest and conversation taking place around this topic also reflected in employ?

Deel is seeing a significant increase in AI-specific roles globally, both among the professionals it recruits and in the companies that employ them.

“By 2023, there will be more than 5,000 contract active positions related to AI, data science, and systems engineers, currently paying more than 2,100 companies. “This data may not be surprising, but when analyzing the growth rate, there is a tremendous spike,” he commented.

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That A.I If we look at these trend figures in the last two years (between September 2021 and the same month this year), it can be seen that the number of data science and systems engineer related positions hired grew 60% in the last year.

Likewise, the number of companies hiring for AI-related roles increased by 59% in the last year.

United States of America This country dominates recruitment for these roles, followed by Canada, the UK and, to a lesser extent, Germany.

But Canada leads in the number of contract workers, followed by India, Spain, Germany and the UK.

Besides that, wages The numbers vary by region, but Latin America has benefited the most from AI growth, with small – but sustainable – increases in average wages over the past year.

Is AI specialist the first truly global role?

Deel emphasized that no region is immune to interest in recruiting workers profile related to AI. The hypothesis is that several complementary trends will allow artificial intelligence to reach all corners of the globe.

He added that the speed of adoption requires a hiring rate that breaks global hiring barriers.

However, the paradigm shift towards global contracts is only possible thanks to employ such as EOR (Employer-of-Record) which allows combining highly qualified talents across borders.

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Internationalization of talent

India is leading in the onboarding of new related roles, with positions such as AI engineer and AI training leader.

That company They recruited more specialized talent in Brazil, Canada and Argentina; in key cities such as Toronto (7% increase), Bengaluru (3% increase) and London (3% increase); Lahore, Berlin and Buenos Aires (2% increase).

Likewise, the UK and Canada are recruiting workers A.I from the United States. The majority of new contracts were created in Germany (52% increase), the United States (44% increase) and the United Kingdom (41% increase).