Signal Global demand for applied AI talent more than tripled between 2018 and 2025

Summary

McKinsey reports that demand for applied AI talent worldwide more than tripled over seven years, with natural language processing, data science, and PyTorch among the most sought-after skills.

Classification

Main topicEducation & Generations

Secondary topicsLabor & Future of Work AI & Computing

Region menusGlobal

Occurrencescope:global

Impactscope:global

Time horizon0-3 years (2026-07-26)

Last updated2026-07-29 04:49:53

Evidence 1

The State of Organizations 2026 McKinsey & Company page=17;section=Technology disruption: Humans and AI agents - Building a new world of collaboration 2026-02 accessed 2026-07-26

Part of trends 1

TrendShift 2: work is redesigned around human-agent collaboration rather than agent insertion14 signals

Directly linked issues 0

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Relation types: supports

Public id: fm-23f7a1e8eed4