Research
What the market actually asks for
A live corpus of job postings, measured rather than assumed. It is why the item banks test what they test — and it is research, not yet a number on your report.
What the corpus shows
The requirement is real. Its size is not settled.
Measured two ways from the same corpus — a raw-text scan and an extracted-skill scan. They disagree by roughly six-fold, which is the honest headline: the direction is unambiguous and the level is not.
1.4–8.1%
of the 998,166 postings dated 2026-07, measured on 2026-08-11, carry an explicit AI-usage requirement, read two ways. Over the whole corpus of 2,151,213 active postings measured the same day, the extracted-skill instrument reads 1.62%, and that is a different denominator rather than a different answer.
79.7%
of the 34,743 postings carrying an AI-usage requirement, measured on 2026-08-11, sit in Technology, with finance and consulting growing fastest.
~2×
growth in the raw-text requirement rate from 2026-02 to 2026-07, over 445,637 and 998,166 postings, both measured on 2026-08-11.
300
postings per arm to be hand-adjudicated before we publish a point estimate. That work is not finished.
Coverage
What we publish, and what we admit
The honest version of the coverage table: where a bank is grounded in enough postings to carry a benchmark, and where it is not yet.
| Occupation | SOC | Bank | Selectable today |
|---|---|---|---|
| Software engineering | 15-1252 | Live | Yes |
| Financial analysis | 13-2051 | Live | Yes |
| Management consulting | 13-1111 | Live | Yes |
| Data & analytics | 15-2051 | Live | Yes |
| Product management | 11-3021 | Live | Yes |
| Marketing | 13-1161 | Live | Yes |
| Journalism | 27-3023 | Live | Yes |
| Healthcare revenue cycle | 29-2072 | Live | Yes |
| Legal operations | 23-2011 | Live | Yes |
| Accounting & audit | 13-2011 | Live | Yes |
| Underwriting & claims | 13-2053 | Live | Yes |
| Supply chain | 13-1081 | Live | Yes |
Being exact, because this is the kind of table people buy against: no report carries a benchmark percentile today. The corpus grounds what the banks test; nothing in the product compares a candidate against it, and there is no scheduled re-derivation job.
The honest part
What a posting corpus cannot tell you.
It cannot tell you whether this person will be good at your job, and it will not once it is wired into the report either. At best it says how the demands on an occupation are moving — a narrower and far more defensible claim than a percentile implies.
It also describes what employers *wrote*, not what they do, and not who answered. That gap is why our two instruments disagree by roughly six-fold, and why we would rather show you the bracket than pick the end of it that sells better.
https://olive.is/benchmarks · Edition 2026 Q3How a requirement is counted
A posting counts only on an explicit usage requirement — "must use", "expected to leverage", a named tool as a duty. A mention of AI in the company blurb does not count.
The research
Read the measurement itself
The corpus, both instruments, the disagreement between them and every caveat we know of — written up rather than summarized into a number.