Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What you need to know Most people look for an AI job the same way: open a job board, type "AI engineer", and start applying to whatever comes back. That method has a specific failure built into it. The results page mixes together at least three completely different kinds of job, hired through different processes and judged on different evidence, and it gives you no way to tell them apart. You end up applying broadly into the largest category, which is almost never the category you were aiming for, and concluding from the silence that the market is brutal. Two sets of published figures, one for each of our markets, say the same thing in different accents. In the United Kingdom, the PwC AI Jobs Barometer 2026, published on 23 June 2026, reports that AI-related job postings recovered to…
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