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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

2,176

Refreshed

Weekly

Sunday scrape

Sources

4

Adzuna, Seek, Indeed, Jora

#01

Data Engineer

Ads · 30d

328

Ads · 90d

659

Median salary

$158k

$130k–$180k

Visa sponsor

0%

Seniority mix

EntrySeniorDirector

Top skills

data pipelinesETLdata warehousingData EngineeringAzureSQL

Top states

  • NSW256
  • VIC152
  • QLD102
  • ACT55

Top industries

  • Technology635
  • Professional Services5
  • Government3
#02

Prompt Engineer

Ads · 30d

229

Ads · 90d

416

Median salary

$140k

$115k–$160k

Visa sponsor

0%

Seniority mix

EntrySeniorDirector

Top skills

LLM fine-tuningprompt engineeringtransformer architecture

Top states

  • NSW121
  • QLD106
  • WA96
  • VIC61

Top industries

  • Technology336
  • Construction61
  • Resources and Mining9
#03

Data Scientist

Ads · 30d

153

Ads · 90d

358

Median salary

$134k

$110k–$163k

Visa sponsor

0%

Seniority mix

EntrySeniorDirector

Top skills

SQLPythonLLM fine-tuningmodel deploymentdata pipelinesprompt engineering

Top states

  • NSW167
  • VIC84
  • QLD34
  • WA19

Top industries

  • Technology316
  • Government10
  • Resources and Mining9
#04

AI Engineer

Ads · 30d

144

Ads · 90d

353

Median salary

$175k

$163k–$195k

Visa sponsor

1%

Seniority mix

EntrySeniorDirector

Top skills

LLM fine-tuningprompt engineeringmodel deploymentAzurePythontransformer architecture

Top states

  • NSW178
  • VIC104
  • QLD28
  • 16

Top industries

  • Technology335
  • Professional Services2
#05

ML Engineer

Ads · 30d

85

Ads · 90d

272

Median salary

$140k

$105k–$165k

Visa sponsor

0%

Seniority mix

EntrySeniorDirector

Top skills

Pythonmodel deploymentMLOpscomputer visiondata pipelinesmodel monitoring

Top states

  • NSW98
  • VIC83
  • QLD46
  • WA18

Top industries

  • Technology261
  • Professional Services5
  • Financial Services4
#06

AI Solutions Architect

Ads · 30d

26

Ads · 90d

51

Median salary

$155k

$155k–$155k

Visa sponsor

0%

Seniority mix

EntrySeniorDirector

Top skills

AI governanceAzuremodel deploymentAWSMLOpsresponsible AI

Top states

  • NSW25
  • VIC11
  • SA5
  • QLD4

Top industries

  • Technology51
#07

AI Product Manager

Ads · 30d

9

Ads · 90d

27

Median salary

$100k

$100k–$100k

Visa sponsor

0%

Seniority mix

EntrySeniorDirector

Top skills

AI governanceresponsible AIAI ethics

Top states

  • NSW20
  • VIC3
  • 3
  • National1

Top industries

  • Technology26
#08

AI Ethics & Compliance

Ads · 30d

16

Ads · 90d

22

Median salary

Visa sponsor

0%

Seniority mix

EntrySeniorDirector

Top skills

AI governanceresponsible AIAI ethicsAI safetymodel risk

Top states

  • NSW12
  • VIC6
  • WA2
  • National1

Top industries

  • Technology20
  • Financial Services2
#09

Chief AI Officer

Ads · 30d

12

Ads · 90d

18

Median salary

Visa sponsor

0%

Seniority mix

EntrySeniorDirector

Top skills

AI governanceresponsible AIAI safetyAI ethicsmodel riskLLM fine-tuning

Top states

  • NSW7
  • VIC5
  • QLD4
  • WA2

Top industries

  • Technology17
  • 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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