AI-related job ads in Hong Kong surged nearly 30% y-o-y in first three quarters of 2025

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The fastest growth in AI-related job postings was seen in IT, banking and financial services, and sales sectors.

As industries accelerate the adoption of AI technologies, the demand for talent with AI skills and relevant professional qualifications has risen significantly. According to the latest data from Jobsdb by SEEK, job advertisements requiring AI application skills in Hong Kong jumped 26% year-on-year in the first three quarters of 2025.

Top 5 sectors that recorded the fastest growth in AI-related job ads:

• IT
• Banking and financial services
• Sales
• Marketing and communications
• Education and training

Top 5 most frequently mentioned generative AI tools in job ads:

• ChatGPT
• Copilot
• DeepSeek
• Midjourney
• Perplexity

AI-related technical terms with the most notable increases in IT-related job ads:

• Continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD)
• Machine learning
• Large language models (LLMs)
• Retrieval augmented generation (RAG)

The data also revealed that microenterprises showed the fastest growth in posting AI-related job ads. Companies with one to 10 employees saw a 35% year-on-year increase in the first three quarters of 2025, nine percentage points higher than the overall market growth. This suggests smaller businesses, often with limited manpower, are turning to AI-powered tools to improve productivity and efficiency and are eager to recruit talent capable of leveraging AI effectively.

However, the data also showed a significant skills gap between market demand and what jobseekers present on their resumes. ⁠Among those who applied for jobs over the past year, only around 2% explicitly listed AI skills on their profiles, including general keywords like “AI” and “machine learning”, as well as technical terms and tools like “natural language processing” and “Amazon SageMaker”.

Younger jobseekers tend to be more proactive, with 3.6% of candidates aged 21 or below having reported such skills, compared with less than 2% among those aged 46 or above.