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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 Australian job advertisements.

Roles tracked

9

Ads · last 90d

1,759

Refreshed

Weekly

Sunday scrape

Sources

4

Adzuna, Seek, Indeed, Jora

#01

Data Engineer

Ads · 30d

330

Ads · 90d

516

Median salary

$155k

$128k–$180k

Visa sponsor

0%

Seniority mix

EntrySeniorDirector

Top skills

data pipelinesETLdata warehousingAzureData EngineeringSQL

Top states

  • NSW213
  • VIC125
  • QLD69
  • ACT41

Top industries

  • Technology494
  • Professional Services4
  • Government3
#02

Prompt Engineer

Ads · 30d

259

Ads · 90d

326

Median salary

$140k

$115k–$153k

Visa sponsor

0%

Seniority mix

EntrySeniorDirector

Top skills

LLM fine-tuningprompt engineeringtransformer architecture

Top states

  • NSW87
  • QLD83
  • WA76
  • VIC51

Top industries

  • Technology260
  • Construction50
  • Resources and Mining9
#03

AI Engineer

Ads · 30d

159

Ads · 90d

302

Median salary

$180k

$163k–$195k

Visa sponsor

1%

Seniority mix

EntrySeniorDirector

Top skills

LLM fine-tuningprompt engineeringmodel deploymentPythonAzuretransformer architecture

Top states

  • NSW164
  • VIC80
  • QLD23
  • 14

Top industries

  • Technology284
  • Professional Services2
#04

Data Scientist

Ads · 30d

167

Ads · 90d

283

Median salary

$145k

$120k–$162k

Visa sponsor

0%

Seniority mix

EntrySeniorDirector

Top skills

SQLPythonLLM fine-tuningmodel deploymentdata pipelinesprompt engineering

Top states

  • NSW135
  • VIC62
  • QLD29
  • ACT16

Top industries

  • Technology257
  • Government7
  • Financial Services6
#05

ML Engineer

Ads · 30d

112

Ads · 90d

234

Median salary

$150k

$105k–$170k

Visa sponsor

0%

Seniority mix

EntrySeniorDirector

Top skills

Pythonmodel deploymentMLOpscomputer visiondata pipelinesmodel monitoring

Top states

  • NSW86
  • VIC73
  • QLD38
  • WA15

Top industries

  • Technology227
  • Professional Services4
  • Education1
#06

AI Solutions Architect

Ads · 30d

14

Ads · 90d

51

Median salary

$155k

$155k–$155k

Visa sponsor

0%

Seniority mix

EntrySeniorDirector

Top skills

AI governanceAWSmodel deploymentAzureMLOpsGCP

Top states

  • NSW29
  • VIC13
  • SA4
  • QLD3

Top industries

  • Technology51
#07

AI Product Manager

Ads · 30d

8

Ads · 90d

20

Median salary

$100k

$100k–$100k

Visa sponsor

0%

Seniority mix

EntrySeniorDirector

Top skills

AI governanceresponsible AIAI ethics

Top states

  • NSW15
  • VIC3
  • National1
  • 1

Top industries

  • Technology19
#08

AI Ethics & Compliance

Ads · 30d

14

Ads · 90d

16

Median salary

Visa sponsor

0%

Seniority mix

EntrySeniorDirector

Top skills

AI governanceresponsible AIAI ethicsAI safety

Top states

  • NSW9
  • VIC3
  • WA2
  • National1

Top industries

  • Technology14
  • Financial Services2
#09

Chief AI Officer

Ads · 30d

7

Ads · 90d

11

Median salary

Visa sponsor

0%

Seniority mix

EntrySeniorDirector

Top skills

AI governanceAI safetyresponsible AIAI ethics

Top states

  • NSW4
  • VIC3
  • QLD2
  • WA2

Top industries

  • Technology10
  • Financial Services1

Preferred citation: “AI Jobs Index Australia, Roles in Demand.” Link to /methodology for definitions and limitations.

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AI hiring in Australia, in numbers.

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