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Despite a one-year drop in job postings, demand for jobs in many technology trends has increased over two years.

Tech trend job postings,1 millions
Image description: The first panel of a two-panel interactive graph shows the number of job postings for 15 technology trends in 2021–23, in millions. The first panel shows the number of postings, with the annual percentage change in 2021–23 for each trend annotated on smaller graphs. Ordered from highest to lowest number of postings in 2023, they are: • Next-generation software development: +52% in 2022, –37% in 2023 • Applied AI: +33% in 2022, –29% in 2023 • Climate technologies beyond electrification and renewables: +34% in 2022, –11% in 2023 • Future of mobility: +55% in 2022, –5% in 2023 • Electrification and renewables: +72% in 2022, +1% in 2023 • Digital trust and cybersecurity: +49% in 2022, –34% in 2023 • Cloud and edge computing: +39% in 2022, –38% in 2023 • Industrializing machine learning: +77% in 2022, –36% in 2023 • Advanced connectivity: +32% in 2022, –24% in 2023 • Immersive-reality technologies: +55% in 2022, –36% in 2023 • Future of bioengineering: +6% in 2022, –23% in 2023 • Future of space technologies: +29% in 2022, –9% in 2023 • Generative AI: +110% in 2022, +111% in 2023 • Future of robotics: +29% in 2022, –20% in 2023 • Quantum technologies: +44% in 2022, –17% in 2023 Footnote: Out of 130 million surveyed job postings (extrapolated Jan–Oct 2023). Job postings are not directly equivalent to numbers of new or existing jobs. Source: McKinsey’s proprietary Organizational Data Platform, which draws on licensed, de-identified public professional profile data. End of image description.
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Despite a one-year drop in job postings, demand for jobs in many technology trends has increased over two years.

Tech trend job postings,1 millions