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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 officers89%of its work already doableshifting to AI
  2. 2Database administrators and web content technicians79%of its work already doableshifting to AI
  3. 3Data entry administrators78%of its work already doableshifting to AI
  4. 4Financial and accounting technicians76%of its work already doableshifting to AI
  5. 5Personal assistants and other secretaries76%of its work already doableshifting to AI
  6. 6IT quality and testing professionals75%of its work already doableshifting to AI
  7. 7Typists and related keyboard occupations75%of its work already doableshifting to AI
  8. 8Data analysts74%of its work already doableshifting to AI
  9. 9Book-keepers, payroll managers and wages clerks68%of its work already doableshifting to AI
  10. 10Medical secretaries68%of its work already doableshifting to AI
  11. 11Professional/chartered company secretaries67%of its work already doableshifting to AI
  12. 12Telephone salespersons66%of its work already doableshifting to AI
  13. 13Pensions and insurance clerks and assistants65%of its work already doableshifting to AI
  14. 14Telephonists65%of its work already doableshifting to AI
  15. 15Legal secretaries65%of its work already doableshifting to AI
  16. 16Web design professionals65%of its work already doableshifting to AI
  17. 17Other administrative occupations n.e.c.64%of its work already doableshifting to AI
  18. 18Human resources administrative occupations63%of its work already doableshifting to AI
  19. 19Records clerks and assistants62%of its work already doableshifting to AI
  20. 20Elementary storage supervisors62%of its work already doablechanging shape
  21. 21Information technology professionals n.e.c.62%of its work already doableshifting to AI
  22. 22IT business analysts, architects and systems designers62%of its work already doableshifting to AI
  23. 23Actuaries, economists and statisticians62%of its work already doableshifting to AI
  24. 24Company secretaries and administrators61%of its work already doableshifting to AI
  25. 25Programmers and software development professionals61%of its work already doableshifting to AI

Least exposed

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

  1. 382Warehouse operatives0%of its work already doablestaying human
  2. Vehicle valeters and cleaners0%of its work already doablestaying human
  3. Vehicle paint technicians0%of its work already doablestaying human
  4. Street cleaners0%of its work already doablestaying human
  5. Stonemasons and related trades0%of its work already doablestaying human
  6. Steel erectors0%of its work already doablestaying human
  7. Shelf fillers0%of its work already doablestaying human
  8. Sewing machinists0%of its work already doablestaying human
  9. School midday and crossing patrol occupations0%of its work already doablestaying human
  10. Scaffolders, stagers and riggers0%of its work already doablestaying human
  11. Road construction operatives0%of its work already doablestaying human
  12. Plastics process operatives0%of its work already doablestaying human
  13. Plasterers0%of its work already doablestaying human
  14. Painters and decorators0%of its work already doablestaying human
  15. Packers, bottlers, canners and fillers0%of its work already doablestaying human
  16. Mobile machine drivers and operatives n.e.c.0%of its work already doablestaying human
  17. Kitchen and catering assistants0%of its work already doablestaying human
  18. Industrial cleaning process occupations0%of its work already doablestaying human
  19. Hospital porters0%of its work already doablestaying human
  20. Groundworkers0%of its work already doablestaying human
  21. Fork-lift truck drivers0%of its work already doablestaying human
  22. Exam invigilators0%of its work already doablestaying human
  23. Elementary process plant occupations n.e.c.0%of its work already doablestaying human
  24. Elementary construction occupations n.e.c.0%of its work already doablestaying human
  25. Early education and childcare assistants0%of its work already doablestaying 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.