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United Kingdom · release 2026-q4.1

Which jobs AI can already do most of

412 United Kingdom occupations, ranked by how much of the work inside them these tools can already do. The most exposed and the least exposed are on the same screen on purpose.

A high score does not mean the job disappears. It means a large share of the tasks inside it are now things software can do, which is a statement about the work, not about the person or about demand. Every job here has its own page showing exactly which tasks drove the number.

Most and least exposed occupations

Most exposed

The largest share of this work is already inside what these tools can do.

  1. 1Finance officers79could be 74 to 84shifting to AI
  2. 2Data entry administrators75could be 70 to 80shifting to AI
  3. 3Database administrators and web content technicians72could be 66 to 78shifting to AI
  4. Typists and related keyboard occupations72could be 67 to 78shifting to AI
  5. 5Data analysts71could be 65 to 77shifting to AI
  6. IT quality and testing professionals71could be 65 to 76shifting to AI
  7. 7Financial and accounting technicians67could be 61 to 72shifting to AI
  8. 8Book-keepers, payroll managers and wages clerks66could be 61 to 71shifting to AI
  9. Web design professionals66could be 60 to 72shifting to AI
  10. 10Medical secretaries65could be 60 to 70shifting to AI
  11. Pensions and insurance clerks and assistants65could be 60 to 71shifting to AI
  12. Personal assistants and other secretaries65could be 60 to 71shifting to AI
  13. 13Actuaries, economists and statisticians64could be 58 to 70shifting to AI
  14. Telephone salespersons64could be 58 to 70shifting to AI
  15. 15Information technology professionals n.e.c.63could be 57 to 69shifting to AI
  16. Legal secretaries63could be 58 to 68shifting to AI
  17. Programmers and software development professionals63could be 57 to 69shifting to AI
  18. 18Collector salespersons and credit agents62could be 56 to 67shifting to AI
  19. Financial administrative occupations n.e.c.62could be 56 to 67shifting to AI
  20. Human resources administrative occupations62could be 57 to 68shifting to AI
  21. IT business analysts, architects and systems designers62could be 57 to 69shifting to AI
  22. Other administrative occupations n.e.c.62could be 56 to 68shifting to AI
  23. Telephonists62could be 57 to 67shifting to AI
  24. 24Advertising and marketing associate professionals61could be 56 to 67shifting to AI
  25. Authors, writers and translators61could be 56 to 67shifting to AI

Least exposed

Physical presence, licensed accountability and real-time judgement are what hold these up.

  1. 412Street cleaners0could be 0 to 4staying human
  2. 411Hospital porters1could be 1 to 5staying human
  3. 404Steel erectors2could be 2 to 7staying human
  4. Sewing machinists2could be 1 to 7staying human
  5. Road construction operatives2could be 2 to 7staying human
  6. Packers, bottlers, canners and fillers2could be 1 to 7staying human
  7. Industrial cleaning process occupations2could be 2 to 6staying human
  8. Groundworkers2could be 1 to 6staying human
  9. Exam invigilators2could be 1 to 7staying human
  10. 401Vehicle valeters and cleaners3could be 1 to 7staying human
  11. Mobile machine drivers and operatives n.e.c.3could be 2 to 7staying human
  12. Elementary process plant occupations n.e.c.3could be 2 to 8staying human
  13. 395Vehicle paint technicians4could be 3 to 9staying human
  14. Scaffolders, stagers and riggers4could be 2 to 8staying human
  15. Plasterers4could be 3 to 8staying human
  16. Launderers, dry cleaners and pressers4could be 3 to 8staying human
  17. Fork-lift truck drivers4could be 2 to 8staying human
  18. Elementary construction occupations n.e.c.4could be 3 to 8staying human
  19. 388Stonemasons and related trades5could be 3 to 9staying human
  20. Plastics process operatives5could be 4 to 10staying human
  21. Kitchen and catering assistants5could be 3 to 10staying human
  22. Fishing and other elementary agriculture occupations n.e.c.5could be 4 to 10staying human
  23. Farm workers5could be 4 to 10staying human
  24. Crane drivers5could be 4 to 10staying human
  25. Cleaners and domestics5could be 4 to 10staying human

Showing 25 at each end of 412. Browse all United Kingdom occupations to see the middle, or search for your own job.

Read the range, not the position

Each score is published with the range it could reasonably sit in, and neighbouring rows usually overlap almost completely. So being 4th rather than 9th is not a finding, and we are not going to dress it up as one. What the ends of this table support is the broad shape: clerical, coordination and document work at one end, hands-on and licensed work at the other.

The ranks are here because they make a long table readable, not because position 12 means something position 13 does not.

How the score is calculated →

By field of work

Whole fields, not single jobs

The official major groups of the UK classification, ordered by the average score of the jobs inside them. The spread matters more than the average: a field whose jobs run from 12 to 79 does not really have an average, and the column on the right shows you when that is the case.

United Kingdom major occupation groups by mean AI exposure score
FieldJobsAverageSpread across the field
Administrative and secretarial occupationsmost exposed: Finance officers275935 to 79
Managers, directors and senior officialsmost exposed: Purchasing managers and directors424424 to 58
Sales and customer service occupationsmost exposed: Telephone salespersons194120 to 64
Professional occupationsmost exposed: IT quality and testing professionals974011 to 71
Associate professional occupationsmost exposed: Database administrators and web content technicians684010 to 72
Caring, leisure and other service occupationsmost exposed: Travel agents29218 to 60
Skilled trades occupationsmost exposed: Computer system and equipment installers and servicers57162 to 52
Process, plant and machine operativesmost exposed: Production, factory and assembly supervisors39132 to 39
Elementary occupationsmost exposed: Elementary storage supervisors34100 to 52
What this ranking leaves out (0 occupations)
  • 0 published occupations have no official task list at all, so there is nothing to measure and never will be. These are the “All Other” residual groups the classification uses to catch everything that does not fit elsewhere.
  • 0 are scored from fewer than 5 task statements. The number is real, but it is too thin a base to summarise a whole job, and those rows would otherwise sit at the extremes of this table purely because of how few tasks they have.
  • 0 have task statements that are not yet scored.

All of them still have pages, and every one says which of these applies to it.