A specialist with AI skills will find a job more easily and earn more

– We increasingly see that knowledge of AI tools is becoming an asset in recruitment, especially for expert and managerial positions – says Marcin Roszkowski, recruitment expert at HR consulting firm HRK. HRK's observations are confirmed by the recent PwC - 2025 Global AI Jobs Barometer study, which showed a systematic increase in the share of job offers requiring AI skills.

AI specialists urgently wanted

According to PwC data, while the total number of job offers in the surveyed countries fell by 11.3% (year-on-year) in 2024, the number of offers requiring AI skills increased by 7.5% during that time. The Polish edition of the study showed similar results: with a smaller number of job advertisements published in Poland, the share of offers requiring knowledge of IT tools increased to 2.5%.

The percentage of job offers requiring AI skills has increased across all sectors over this time, but the fastest growth was in ICT services (from 2% in 2018 to 9.6% in 2024) and professional services (from 0.7% in 2018 to 4% in 2024). A similar trend can be seen in developed countries around the world; according to the Atlanta Fed, last year 1.7% of all job offers in the US required AI skills.

Despite the growing number of job offers for AI-savvy specialists and managers, the rules for using these tools remain a challenge. As evidenced by HRK's June study, conducted on LinkedIn among over 250 specialists and managers, as many as 58 percent of them work in companies that do not regulate the use of artificial intelligence.

Companies are implementing AI usage policies

The study, which “Rzeczpospolita” was the first to describe, shows that only 19% of companies have introduced clearly defined rules for using AI tools. The same number (19%) of respondents confirmed that their companies have partial but imprecise regulations, and 4% admitted that the use of AI is completely prohibited in their workplace.

According to Marcin Roszkowski, although internal guidelines on the use of AI appear mainly in large companies, the trend of organizing this area is clear. Especially since artificial intelligence is increasingly becoming a work tool - accelerating operations and supporting analyses.

– People who can effectively work with technologies will gain the greatest advantage on the job market – says the HRK expert. This is already shown by PwC's global AI Jobs Barometer; in 2024, people who knew AI tools earned on average 56% more than their colleagues without these skills.