Headline
The AI Jobs Index for the trailing 30 days shows net positive AI jobs impact in Australia. New AI-mentioning advertisements outpaced publicly announced AI-attributed job losses for the period.
The AI share of Australian job advertisements (AAJCI) sits above 10% for the first time since tracking began. That share is now the single most useful monthly leading indicator this index produces.
What changed this month
- Financial services quietly kept hiring. Despite the NAB and CBA announcements over the prior quarter, AI-specialist ads from the Big Four and associated insurers remained flat month-over-month, not down.
- Atlassian's February reduction still dominates. That single announcement remains the largest AI-attributed event on the tracker. Its weight on the rolling 12-month total is a reminder that single announcements can swing the number and should be read with context.
- AI literacy skills are growing faster than AI engineering skills. Mentions of Copilot, ChatGPT, and prompt engineering are growing off a smaller base but at roughly double the rate of ML / NLP / MLOps mentions in Australian advertisements.
How to read this
The components of the headline are not symmetrical. AI job creation is measured in advertisements, which lead actual hiring. AI-attributed displacement is measured in public announcements, which lag actual displacement and under-count quiet cuts. A positive NAIJI does not mean AI is producing more jobs than it removes overall. It means that, in the window measured, there are more visibly AI-related ads than publicly acknowledged AI-attributed losses.
Read the headline alongside the ABS Labour Force Survey release from the day before, which is the authoritative Australian employment count.
Next release
The next monthly report is published on the second Thursday of May. It will include the first quarterly deep-dive cuts for Q1 2026: industry, region, and company-size breakdowns. The AIXR exposure heatmap refreshes with that release.