France’s AI job market: growth, skills, and demands
The 2025 Global AI Jobs Barometer reveals that France is experiencing a significant surge in AI-related job postings, with demand for AI skills consistently rising across various sectors. This growth is redefining job roles, accelerating skill changes, and increasing degree requirements for AI-exposed positions. The report highlights AI’s role in augmenting human value creation and driving positive job growth, even in traditionally less obvious industries.
Points clés
- The share of job postings in France requiring AI-related skills steadily increased from 0.7% in 2018 to 1.0% in 2022.
- AI job postings in France significantly rose from 21,000 in 2018 to 166,000 in 2024, indicating high demand for AI skills.
- The Manufacturing sector remained the leading employer in France, accounting for 15.5% of job postings in 2024.
- The Information & Communication sector leads AI adoption in France, with AI-related job postings increasing from 2.5% in 2018 to 3.8% in 2024.
- Job numbers in AI-exposed occupations in France have grown by an average of 273% since 2019.
- Generative AI (GenAI) exposed occupations in France have seen an average growth of 274% since 2019.
- Occupations with higher AI exposure in France show a positive correlation with net skill changes, with the top quartile experiencing a 1.34 times greater change in net skill compared to the bottom quartile.
- Job postings for augmented positions in France are growing slightly faster (252%) than those for automated roles (223%) between 2019 and 2024.
- Degree requirements for AI-exposed jobs in France have risen to 58% in 2024 (from 54% in 2019), while lower-exposure jobs now require degrees less often.
- The report’s contributors include Joe Atkinson, Peter Brown, Sarah Brown, and Mehdi Sahneh, among others.
À retenir
So, it seems AI isn’t here to steal all our jobs, after all! Instead, it’s busy creating new ones and demanding that we all become super-skilled cyborgs (or at least, get a few more degrees). If you’re not already brushing up on your AI-related skills, you might as well start now, because apparently, even your cleaner will need to be an AI expert soon. And for those of you in manufacturing, don’t worry, your sector is still king, even if it’s getting a little automated. Just remember, AI isn’t about replacing us, it’s about making us… well, more augmented, I suppose. So, embrace the future, or be left behind, frantically trying to figure out what a “net skill change” is.
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