{"id":1021953,"date":"2026-07-18T08:05:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T02:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1021953"},"modified":"2026-07-18T08:05:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T02:35:01","slug":"ai-skill-demand-rises-over-17-fold-in-tech-jobs-six-fold-in-non-tech-jobs-since-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/18\/ai-skill-demand-rises-over-17-fold-in-tech-jobs-six-fold-in-non-tech-jobs-since-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"AI skill demand rises over 17-fold in tech jobs, six-fold in non-tech jobs since 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AI fluency is rapidly emerging as a baseline workplace capability, with AI-related skills now featuring in 15.4 per cent of technology job descriptions, while AI skill mentions in non-technology roles have increased nearly six-fold, says a report. <\/p>\n<p>According to Naukri&#8217;s latest World AI Day Report 2026, AI-related skills now appear in 15.4 per cent of technology job descriptions, up from 0.9 per cent in 2020, reflecting a nearly 17-fold increase in employer demand over the past six years. <\/p>\n<p>The report drew insights from nearly 27,000 professionals across 80+ industries and 15+ cities and analysed over 3 lakh job descriptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI fluency is rapidly emerging as a baseline workplace capability, with AI-related skills now featuring in 15.4 per cent of technology job descriptions, while AI skill mentions in non-technology roles have increased nearly six-fold, says a report. According to Naukri&#8217;s latest World AI Day Report 2026, AI-related skills now appear in 15.4 per cent of technology job descriptions, up from 0.9 per cent in 2020, reflecting a nearly 17-fold increase in employer demand over the past six years. The report drew insights from nearly 27,000 professionals across 80+ industries and 15+ cities and analysed over 3 lakh job descriptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021966,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021953\/revisions\/1021966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}