#01
AI Engineer
Ads · 30d
0
Ads · 90d
74
Median salary
$225k
$203k–$275k
Visa sponsor
3%
Seniority mix
EntrySeniorDirector
Top skills
model deploymentPythonRAGAI governanceMLOpsAWS
Top states
- VIC19
- NSW18
- National12
- ACT10
Top industries
- Technology74
AI Roles in Demand
The AI-specialist roles Australian employers are actually hiring for, ranked by 90-day advertisement volume. Salary bands, seniority mix, required skills, and where the hiring is concentrated. All sourced from live AI- and data-adjacent Australian job advertisements.
This is the AI-specialist view (ASDI), a strict subset of all AI-mentioning ads (ADI). Every advertisement counted here has already qualified for ASDI by the title or skills-taxonomy rules published on /methodology. The counts below are AI-specialist roles only and are not expected to equal the total advertised volume.
Roles tracked
8
AI-specialist ads · 90d
146
ASDI subset, not total volume
Refreshed
Monthly
Day after ABS Labour Force
Sources
Adzuna + major AU job boards
#02
ML Engineer
Ads · 30d
0
Ads · 90d
34
Median salary
$160k
$160k–$160k
Visa sponsor
0%
Seniority mix
EntrySeniorDirector
Top skills
LLM fine-tuningprompt engineeringMLOpsmodel deploymentLangChainAWS
Top states
- NSW10
- National7
- VIC5
- QLD4
Top industries
- Technology34
#03
AI Solutions Architect
Ads · 30d
0
Ads · 90d
23
Median salary
—
Visa sponsor
0%
Seniority mix
EntrySeniorDirector
Top skills
AWSmodel deploymentprompt engineeringVertex AIGCPMLOps
Top states
- National13
- NSW5
- VIC4
- SA1
Top industries
- Technology23
#04
Chief AI Officer
Ads · 30d
0
Ads · 90d
5
Median salary
$175k
$175k–$175k
Visa sponsor
0%
Seniority mix
EntrySeniorDirector
Top skills
AI governancemodel deployment
Top states
- National3
- QLD2
Top industries
- Technology5
#05
AI Product Manager
Ads · 30d
0
Ads · 90d
4
Median salary
—
Visa sponsor
0%
Seniority mix
EntrySeniorDirector
Top skills
—
Top states
- NSW3
- National1
Top industries
- Technology4
#06
Other AI
Ads · 30d
0
Ads · 90d
3
Median salary
—
Visa sponsor
0%
Seniority mix
EntrySeniorDirector
Top skills
NLPprompt engineeringLLM fine-tuningmodel deploymentmodel monitoringresponsible AI
Top states
- NSW2
- National1
Top industries
- Technology3
#07
Data Scientist
Ads · 30d
0
Ads · 90d
2
Median salary
—
Visa sponsor
0%
Seniority mix
EntrySeniorDirector
Top skills
NLPLLM fine-tuningprompt engineeringtransformer architectureAI governanceresponsible AI
Top states
- NSW1
- National1
Top industries
- Technology2
#08
Prompt Engineer
Ads · 30d
0
Ads · 90d
1
Median salary
—
Visa sponsor
0%
Seniority mix
EntrySeniorDirector
Top skills
prompt engineeringLLM fine-tuning
Top states
- NSW1
Top industries
- Technology1
How to cite this figure
AI Jobs Index Australia (2026). ASDI · AI-Specialist Demand Index, as of 24 August 2026. Building Tech Teams. https://aijobsindex.com.au/roles
Definitions, edge cases, and the published taxonomy: /methodology.
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