{"id":266112,"date":"2026-01-27T07:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T07:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/266112\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T07:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T07:38:07","slug":"one-in-ten-job-postings-now-reference-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/266112\/","title":{"rendered":"One in ten job postings now reference AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One in ten job postings in Ireland now mention artificial intelligence (AI), according to research from hiring platform Indeed.<\/p>\n<p>This places Ireland ahead of the US, UK, France and Germany, and is reflective of the tech sector&#8217;s sizable footprint in the Irish economy.<\/p>\n<p>According to the data, several non-tech categories also have significant shares of AI postings, including arts and entertainment, human resources and sales.<\/p>\n<p>The research shows that remote and hybrid work mentions had reached a new high of 19.4% by the end of December 2025, more than four times higher than pre-pandemic levels.<\/p>\n<p>The roles with the highest share of remote or hybrid mentions include software development, media and communications, and data and analytics.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed said that while job postings in Ireland are well down from peaks seen in early 2022, they still remain 7% above their pre-pandemic baseline as of January 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The level of postings has also remained relatively stable since May, according to the research.<\/p>\n<p>The share of Irish job postings which include salary information has dipped recently to around 34%, its lowest since late-2022.<\/p>\n<p>It comes ahead of the transposing later this year of the EU Pay Transparency Directive which will require employers to include salary details in job adverts.<\/p>\n<p>They will also be no longer able to ask candidates about the pay they receive in their existing job.<\/p>\n<p>On average in 2025, around 13% of searches for Irish jobs on Indeed originated outside Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For jobseekers, AI is rapidly reshaping how work gets done, with a clear expectation emerging for workers across all sectors to be comfortable using AI tools, even in roles that aren\u2019t traditionally tech-focused,&#8221; said Jack Kennedy, senior economist at Indeed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From an employer perspective, hybrid and flexible working have moved from a perk to an expectation in 2026, and they will need to keep this in mind when recruiting,&#8221; Mr Kennedy said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One in ten job postings in Ireland now mention artificial intelligence (AI), according to research from hiring platform&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-266112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}