Jobs in artificial intelligence are most plentiful in San Jose, Seattle and San Fransisco, according to a report from UMD-LinkUp, a partnership between the University of Maryland, jobs website LinkUp and consulting firm Outrigger Group, but the remainder of the top 10 cities might come as a surprise.
In the first quarter of 2024, around 142 new AI jobs per 100,000 residents were listed on LinkUp in San Jose, while Seattle had 74.4 and San Fransisco had 49.3. This accounted for around 7.5%, 4% and 3.2%, respectively, of all new jobs posted during Q1.
However, AI jobs were also plentiful in Austin (39.9), Washington, D.C., (35.3), Northwest Arkansas (24.7), Raleigh (19.7) and Atlanta (19). Nationally, 11.7 AI-related positions were posed for every 100,000 residents during the first quarter.
To determine the number of artificial intelligence jobs posted—defined by positions that require technical skills to either create or use AI models, researchers used their own AI language models to sort through LinkUp’s listings.
