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2025 Global AI Jobs Barometer Summary - Hong Kong, SAR

Core Content

The 2025 Global AI Jobs Barometer provides insights into the impact of AI on employment in Hong Kong, SAR, analyzing job postings across various sectors and their exposure to AI technologies. The report highlights both the challenges and opportunities brought about by AI in the labor market, focusing on skill demands, job growth, and the evolving nature of work.

Main Findings

Global AI Impact

• AI is rapidly transforming job roles across all industries, including less obvious ones such as agriculture and construction.
• AI-related skills are in higher demand, with skills required for AI-exposed jobs changing 66% faster than for other jobs, up from 25% in 2023.
• AI is associated with gentler growth in job numbers rather than sharp declines, suggesting a net positive effect on employment when AI is used to create new economic activities.

Hong Kong, SAR Specific Insights

• Despite a weakening labor market in 2024, AI job postings increased significantly, from 1.6% to 1.9%, showing growing employer interest in AI skills.
• The Professional Services sector remains the largest employer in Hong Kong, SAR, with a 10.2% share of job postings in 2024.
• The Information and Communication sector is the second-largest, accounting for 5.3% of job postings in 2024.
• AI job postings are dominated by the Information and Communication sector, rising from 6.4% in 2021 to 7.2% in 2024.
• Across most sectors, the share of AI-related job postings has remained relatively flat, with no sector exceeding 3% of postings requiring AI skills.

Job Growth by AI Exposure

• AI-exposed occupations have seen a 6% cumulative growth since 2021.
• GenAI-exposed occupations have grown by 7%, with the highest growth in refuse workers, drivers, and mobile plant operators.
• Augmented roles (those enhanced by AI) have grown more than automated roles (those replaced by AI), indicating a preference for roles that combine human and AI capabilities.
• Sectors like Public Administration & Defence and Energy and Water Supply show the highest growth in AI-related postings, reflecting increased demand for AI-enhanced human expertise.

Key Trends

• AI is not displacing jobs at a sharp rate, but rather redefining them.
• Formal degree requirements are declining for AI-exposed jobs, especially for roles that are more highly automated, indicating a shift towards skill-based hiring.
• The demand for AI skills is increasing, even as the overall number of job postings declines, suggesting that AI is becoming a more integral part of the workforce.
• Data limitations prevent certain metrics from being presented, including historical comparisons from 2012, degree requirements as a percentage of postings, and net skill changes.

Methodology Notes

• Data Source: Lightcast data is used to analyze job postings, including associated skills and sectors.
• ISCO Codes: The report uses 2-digit ISCO codes for AI exposure metrics, while other analyses use 4-digit codes.
• Filtering: Observations with errors or zeros are removed to ensure data accuracy.
• Categorization: Job postings are categorized as Augmented, Automated, or Neither, with the Neither category excluded from analysis.

Sponsors and Contributors

Partner Sponsors

• Joe Atkinson (Global Chief AI Officer, PwC US)
• Peter Brown (Global Workforce Leader, PwC UK)

Contributors

• Sarah Brown, Barret Kupelian, Mehdi Sahneh, Simon Oates, Justine Brown, Adam Deasy, Nabil Taleb
• Harry Ingham, Gabriela Grobelny, William Feng, Mia Williams, Wilf Rutter, Josh Gould

Advisors

• Scott Likens (Global AI and Innovation Technology Leader, PwC US)
• Rusbeh Hashemian (EMEA Chief Information Officer, PwC Germany)
• Bivek Sharma (Chief AI Officer, PwC UK)
• Agnieszka Gajewska (Global Government and Public Services Leader, PwC Poland)
• Euan Cameron (AI and Emerging Technology Leader, PwC UK)
• Prasun Shah (Global CTO Workforce Consulting & AI Transformation Leader, PwC UK)
• Bastiaan Starink (Workforce, Partner, PwC Netherlands)
• Khaled Bin Braik (Consulting Partner and Emiratisation Leader, PwC Middle East)
• Matt Wood (Global and US Comm Technology & Innovation Officer, PwC US)
• Marlene de Koning (Workforce AI and Innovation Technology Leader, PwC Netherlands)
• Parul Munshi (APAC Workforce Transformation Leader, PwC Singapore)
• Anthony Abbatiello (Workforce Transformation Practice Leader, PwC US)
• Vishy Narayanan (Asia Pacific Digital & AI Leader, PwC Malaysia)
• Anthony Bruce (Global Health Industries Leader, PwC UK)
• Farbod Nassiri (HR Transformation Leader, PwC Canada)
• Dan Priest (US Chief AI Officer, PwC US)
• Dr. Vishalli Dongrie (Workforce Advisory Leader, PwC India)

Conclusion

The 2025 Global AI Jobs Barometer underscores the transformative role of AI in shaping the future of work in Hong Kong, SAR. While the labor market has weakened, the demand for AI-related skills is rising, indicating a growing recognition of AI's potential to enhance productivity and create new opportunities. The shift toward augmented roles and the decline in formal degree requirements suggest a more skills-driven and flexible labor market. However, the report also highlights the need for further data to fully understand the long-term implications of AI on employment.