AI exposure by job: 293 UK occupations

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Managers, directors and senior officials

Chief executives and senior officials 80/100
Financial institution managers and directors 81/100
Financial managers and directors 100/100
Functional managers and directors n.e.c. 75/100
Health care practice managers 91/100
Health services and public health managers and directors 91/100
Hotel and accommodation managers and proprietors 56/100
Human resource managers and directors 94/100
Information technology and telecommunications directors 93/100
Leisure and sports managers 56/100
Managers and directors in retail and wholesale 65/100
Managers and directors in storage and warehousing 79/100
Managers and directors in transport and distribution 68/100
Managers and proprietors in agriculture and horticulture 51/100
Managers and proprietors in other services n.e.c. 61/100
Marketing and sales directors 93/100
Production managers and directors in construction 64/100
Production managers and directors in manufacturing 64/100
Production managers and directors in mining and energy 58/100
Property, housing and estate managers 61/100
Purchasing managers and directors 99/100
Residential, day and domiciliary care managers and proprietors 65/100
Restaurant and catering establishment managers and proprietors 45/100
Senior police officers 42/100
Social services managers and directors 85/100

Professional occupations

Actuaries, economists and statisticians 99/100
Advertising accounts managers and creative directors 88/100
Architects 75/100
Archivists and curators 58/100
Barristers and judges 86/100
Biological scientists and biochemists 67/100
Business and financial project management professionals 98/100
Business and related research professionals 82/100
Business, research and administrative professionals n.e.c. 96/100
Chartered and certified accountants 99/100
Chartered surveyors 56/100
Chemical scientists 73/100
Civil engineers 97/100
Clergy 90/100
Conservation professionals 59/100
Design and development engineers 87/100
Education advisers and school inspectors 96/100
Electrical engineers 68/100
Engineering professionals n.e.c. 81/100
Environment professionals 86/100
Environmental health professionals 64/100
Further education teaching professionals 90/100
Health professionals n.e.c. 63/100
Higher education teaching professionals 89/100
Information technology and telecommunications professionals n.e.c. 87/100
IT business analysts, architects and systems designers 83/100
IT project and programme managers 93/100
IT specialist managers 78/100
Journalists, newspaper and periodical editors 85/100
Legal professionals n.e.c. 98/100
Librarians 71/100
Management consultants and business analysts 100/100
Mechanical engineers 74/100
Medical practitioners 67/100
Medical radiographers 46/100
Midwives 52/100
Natural and social science professionals n.e.c. 70/100
Nurses 54/100
Occupational therapists 59/100
Ophthalmic opticians 53/100
Pharmacists 61/100
Physical scientists 81/100
Physiotherapists 42/100
Podiatrists 62/100
Primary and nursery education teaching professionals 64/100
Production and process engineers 80/100
Programmers and software development professionals 90/100
Psychologists 99/100
Public relations professionals 92/100
Quality assurance and regulatory professionals 87/100
Quality control and planning engineers 84/100
Quantity surveyors 86/100
Research and development managers 75/100
Secondary education teaching professionals 70/100
Senior professionals of educational establishments 85/100
Social and humanities scientists 90/100
Social workers 66/100
Solicitors 97/100
Special needs education teaching professionals 62/100
Speech and language therapists 72/100
Teaching and other educational professionals n.e.c. 85/100
Therapy professionals n.e.c. 55/100
Town planning officers 88/100
Veterinarians 48/100
Web design and development professionals 72/100
Welfare professionals n.e.c. 73/100

Associate professional and technical occupations

Artists 49/100
Arts officers, producers and directors 78/100
Business and related associate professionals n.e.c. 98/100
Business sales executives 81/100
Buyers and procurement officers 79/100
Careers advisers and vocational guidance specialists 79/100
Child and early years officers 66/100
Conference and exhibition managers and organisers 55/100
Conservation and environmental associate professionals 39/100
Counsellors 79/100
Draughtspersons 71/100
Electrical and electronics technicians 51/100
Engineering technicians 51/100
Estate agents and auctioneers 84/100
Estimators, valuers and assessors 72/100
Finance and investment analysts and advisers 98/100
Financial accounts managers 96/100
Financial and accounting technicians 94/100
Fire service officers (watch manager and below) 22/100
Fitness instructors 36/100
Graphic designers 57/100
Health and safety officers 69/100
Health associate professionals n.e.c. 60/100
Housing officers 84/100
Human resources and industrial relations officers 89/100
Inspectors of standards and regulations 52/100
Insurance underwriters 94/100
IT operations technicians 83/100
IT user support technicians 60/100
Laboratory technicians 50/100
Legal associate professionals 76/100
Marketing associate professionals 95/100
Medical and dental technicians 42/100
Paramedics 43/100
Pharmaceutical technicians 48/100
Photographers, audio-visual and broadcasting equipment operators 49/100
Planning, process and production technicians 52/100
Police community support officers 25/100
Police officers (sergeant and below) 30/100
Prison service officers (below principal officer) 25/100
Product, clothing and related designers 62/100
Protective service associate professionals n.e.c. 62/100
Public services associate professionals 66/100
Quality assurance technicians 47/100
Sales accounts and business development managers 92/100
Science, engineering and production technicians n.e.c. 53/100
Sports coaches, instructors and officials 47/100
Taxation experts 88/100
Vocational and industrial trainers and instructors 93/100
Welfare and housing associate professionals n.e.c. 78/100
Youth and community workers 56/100

Administrative and secretarial occupations

Bank and post office clerks 70/100
Book-keepers, payroll managers and wages clerks 95/100
Company secretaries 80/100
Credit controllers 97/100
Finance officers 77/100
Financial administrative occupations n.e.c. 69/100
Human resources administrative occupations 96/100
Legal secretaries 76/100
Library clerks and assistants 50/100
Local government administrative occupations 92/100
Medical secretaries 87/100
National government administrative occupations 95/100
Office managers 76/100
Office supervisors 77/100
Other administrative occupations n.e.c. 72/100
Pensions and insurance clerks and assistants 89/100
Personal assistants and other secretaries 74/100
Receptionists 63/100
Records clerks and assistants 68/100
Sales administrators 58/100
School secretaries 70/100
Stock control clerks and assistants 35/100
Transport and distribution clerks and assistants 73/100
Typists and related keyboard occupations 59/100

Skilled trades occupations

Agricultural and fishing trades n.e.c. 31/100
Air-conditioning and refrigeration engineers 31/100
Bakers and flour confectioners 36/100
Butchers 7/100
Carpenters and joiners 10/100
Catering and bar managers 37/100
Chefs 40/100
Construction and building trades n.e.c. 22/100
Construction and building trades supervisors 45/100
Cooks 32/100
Electrical and electronic trades n.e.c. 27/100
Electricians and electrical fitters 33/100
Farmers 38/100
Floorers and wall tilers 2/100
Furniture makers and other craft woodworkers 15/100
Gardeners and landscape gardeners 4/100
Glaziers, window fabricators and fitters 11/100
Groundsmen and greenkeepers 12/100
Metal machining setters and setter-operators 23/100
Metal working production and maintenance fitters 14/100
Other skilled trades n.e.c. 30/100
Painters and decorators 4/100
Plumbers and heating and ventilating engineers 18/100
Precision instrument makers and repairers 42/100
Print finishing and binding workers 28/100
Printers 24/100
Roofers, roof tilers and slaters 1/100
Sheet metal workers 12/100
Skilled metal, electrical and electronic trades supervisors 46/100
Telecommunications engineers 41/100
Tool makers, tool fitters and markers-out 30/100
Vehicle paint technicians 6/100
Vehicle technicians, mechanics and electricians 18/100
Welding trades 13/100

Caring, leisure and other service occupations

Air travel assistants 41/100
Ambulance staff (excluding paramedics) 25/100
Animal care services occupations n.e.c. 24/100
Beauticians and related occupations 37/100
Care workers and home carers 41/100
Caretakers 39/100
Childminders and related occupations 37/100
Cleaning and housekeeping managers and supervisors 32/100
Dental nurses 33/100
Educational support assistants 57/100
Hairdressers and barbers 33/100
Housekeepers and related occupations 21/100
Houseparents and residential wardens 44/100
Leisure and travel service occupations n.e.c. 55/100
Nursery nurses and assistants 55/100
Nursing auxiliaries and assistants 27/100
Playworkers 44/100
Rail travel assistants 27/100
Senior care workers 44/100
Teaching assistants 57/100
Travel agents 69/100
Undertakers, mortuary and crematorium assistants 34/100
Veterinary nurses 36/100

Sales and customer service occupations

Call and contact centre occupations 74/100
Communication operators 71/100
Customer service managers and supervisors 84/100
Customer service occupations n.e.c. 65/100
Debt, rent and other cash collectors 47/100
Merchandisers and window dressers 19/100
Pharmacy and other dispensing assistants 43/100
Retail cashiers and check-out operators 41/100
Sales and retail assistants 38/100
Sales related occupations n.e.c. 73/100
Sales supervisors 47/100
Telephone salespersons 82/100
Telephonists 76/100
Vehicle and parts salespersons and advisers 48/100

Process, plant and machine operatives

Air transport operatives 53/100
Assemblers (electrical and electronic products) 21/100
Assemblers (vehicles and metal goods) 24/100
Assemblers and routine operatives n.e.c. 23/100
Bus and coach drivers 34/100
Chemical and related process operatives 31/100
Construction operatives n.e.c. 10/100
Crane drivers 26/100
Electroplaters 17/100
Energy plant operatives 43/100
Food, drink and tobacco process operatives 21/100
Fork-lift truck drivers 4/100
Large goods vehicle drivers 8/100
Metal making and treating process operatives 15/100
Metal working machine operatives 20/100
Mobile machine drivers and operatives n.e.c. 10/100
Paper and wood machine operatives 14/100
Plant and machine operatives n.e.c. 14/100
Plastics process operatives 18/100
Printing machine assistants 22/100
Process operatives n.e.c. 7/100
Rail construction and maintenance operatives 12/100
Rail transport operatives 24/100
Road construction operatives 5/100
Routine inspectors and testers 38/100
Scaffolders, stagers and riggers 8/100
Sewing machinists 9/100
Taxi and cab drivers and chauffeurs 29/100
Textile process operatives 8/100
Train and tram drivers 29/100
Tyre, exhaust and windscreen fitters 5/100
Van drivers 13/100
Water and sewerage plant operatives 28/100
Weighers, graders and sorters 44/100

Elementary occupations

Bar staff 10/100
Cleaners and domestics 2/100
Elementary administration occupations n.e.c. 27/100
Elementary construction occupations 1/100
Elementary process plant occupations n.e.c. 5/100
Elementary security occupations n.e.c. 34/100
Elementary storage occupations 32/100
Farm workers 7/100
Fishing and other elementary agriculture occupations n.e.c. 9/100
Industrial cleaning process occupations 6/100
Kitchen and catering assistants 21/100
Launderers, dry cleaners and pressers 3/100
Other elementary services occupations n.e.c. 39/100
Packers, bottlers, canners and fillers 4/100
Parking and civil enforcement occupations 30/100
Postal workers, mail sorters, messengers and couriers 18/100
Refuse and salvage occupations 16/100
Security guards and related occupations 54/100
Shelf fillers 23/100
Street cleaners 6/100
Vehicle valeters and cleaners 2/100
Waiters and waitresses 32/100

Sources: Department for Education (2023) AIOE scores; ONS ASHE 2020 Table 14; ONS SOC 2010 coding index v7. Groups are SOC 2010 major groups.