LinkedIn Shares Insights Into the Most In-Demand Jobs and Skills

Looking for a change of career in 2025?

This might help. LinkedIn has published its latest “Jobs on the Rise” report, which looks at the roles that are seeing more listings in its recruitment elements, and the skills that employers are looking for this year.

And as you might expect, AI features prominently:

As you can see, “AI Engineer” and “AI Consultant” are the two fastest-growing job listings in the app, which points to the urgency around brand adoption of the latest AI tools.

Which makes sense. AI can transform elements of some businesses, and streamline many roles, though you do also need to understand its limitations, and where you need humans to take the lead.

But there’s a lot of opportunity there, and AI professionals, who have a good understanding of these systems, are in high demand, which could be a good area of focus for job seekers this year.

Though it’s also interesting to note the growth in roles that AI can’t assist with. Physical therapists, for example, obviously can’t be replicated by machines (yet), while travel advisors offer personal, on-the-ground insight that can’t be replicated in bot text.

In fact, there are various skills that are gaining traction because AI can’t replace them.

To be clear, I would say that AI tools can assist in each of these skills, but it takes human input to actually carry them out successfully. And that seems unlikely to change for some time yet.

LinkedIn’s also included a listing of jobs on the rise for young professionals:

While it’s also provided a much longer list of emerging job roles to provide more insight into key trends.

It’s a valuable overview for job seekers, while for everyone else, it also provides a snapshot of where we’re at, and what employers are seeking at present.

You can check out LinkedIn’s full “Jobs on the Rise” report for the U.S. here, while it’s also published regional market reports for Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands (Dutch and English), Saudi Arabia (English and Arabic), Spain, Sweden (Swedish and English), Switzerland (French and German), Türkiye, the UAE and the UK.