Job listings on LinkedIn that mention AI have more than doubled in the past 2 years and applications are flying in, the social platform says

• Job postings on LinkedIn that mention AI or generative AI have increased significantly since 2021.
• New LinkedIn research finds that the skills required for jobs is estimated to change significantly by 2030.

The number of jobs postings on LinkedIn that mention AI or require AI skills have increased significantly since 2021 and jobs seekers are keen to snap up these jobs, new LinkedIn data shows.

LinkedIn released new research on Tuesday, viewed by Insider, which surveyed 29,937 professionals in the US, UK and Canada and 15 other countries in August. It also published its Global Talent Trends Report, which analyzed job descriptions for paid jobs in the past two years and flagged those that mentioned AI or generative AI in 10 languages including English, Spanish, and French.

It found that the skills required for jobs are estimated to change by at least significantly by 2030 due to rapid developments in the workplace including the increasing interest around AI.

These changes are already showing up as job postings that mention AI or generative AI have more than doubled globally in the past two years, per LinkedIn's data. Job seekers are keen to snap up these jobs as applications for these roles have grown 17% faster, according to the Global Talent Trends Report.

Overall 89% of professionals are excited to use AI at work and 57% want to learn more about it, LinkedIn said.

There's been a rapid increase in interest around AI skills in the past year since the launch of OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT in November 2022. It reached 100 million users in just over 2 months, becoming the fastest growing consumer app in internet history.

The hype is reflecting in job listings across the board. For example, job search engine Adzuna advertised 7.8 million open roles in the US in May and 1,496 of those mentioned generative AI, compared to only 185 listings in January. Only three job postings on Adzuna mentioned AI in May 2022.

These postings are popular among job seekers in part thanks to high salaries, with companies across a number of industries offering salaries over $100,000 for jobs related to AI.

One machine learning researcher role for the trading firm Jane Street has a salary range between $250,000 to $300,000 a year. Disney is also advertising a senior machine learning engineer role with a pay range of $145,400 to $199,870 a year.