Wantedly analyzed trends in hiring and job seeking in the AI era, finding that AI-related job postings and applications increased approximately 4.3-fold and accounted for approximately 8% of the total. Growth in applications for business roles was particularly pronounced.
AI-related job postings and applications increased approximately 4.3-fold compared with before generative AI became widespread. In the one-year period from September 2025 to August 2026, they accounted for approximately 8% of all newly posted jobs, while applications also accounted for approximately 8% of the total. From September 2021 to August 2022, AI-related job postings and applications remained in the 2% range.
By occupation, AI-related job postings for business roles increased approximately 5.7-fold compared with before generative AI became widespread, while applications increased approximately 8.6-fold. For engineering roles, job postings increased approximately 2.9-fold and applications approximately 3.2-fold. The data showed a tendency for growth in business roles to outpace that in engineering roles for both corporate job postings and applications from job seekers.
As specific examples by occupation, job postings for AI consultants increased approximately 7.0-fold and applications approximately 11.7-fold, the largest increases among the categories. Job postings for AI engineers increased approximately 3.1-fold and applications approximately 4.3-fold, while those for AI PM/PdM increased approximately 8.4-fold and applications approximately 8.6-fold.