EU
Austria
~32%
Work in exposed occupations
~1.46 m · estimate · 2025
6.7%
Unemployment
+0.5 pp (Jul 2026)
Aug 2026
13.1%
Youth unemployment (<25)
Aug 2026
2.9%
Job vacancy rate
Q2 2026
77.6%
Employment rate (20–64)
2025
30%
Firms using AI
2025 · EU average 20%
0.72
IMF AI Preparedness Index
IMF · 2023
4.49 m
Employed
2025 · Eurostat
Unemployment, monthly
AustriaEU27Eurostat une_rt_m · seasonally adjusted
Who does what? — employment by occupational group
Tile size is the number employed, colour the group's average AI exposure.
Out of 100 workers — Austria
- 48Not exposed
- 19Minimal
- 4Low
- 12Medium
- 10High
- 7Highest
Outlook to 2035 (Cedefop)
The fastest growing and shrinking occupational groups between 2025 and 2035.
+5.1%
Change 2025→2035
1.42 m
Total expected openings
2025–2035
1.18 m
Replacement demand
+243 k
Expansion
- Information and communications technology professionals+37.6%
- Science and engineering professionals+31.2%
- Chief executives, senior officials and legislators+29.8%
- Business and administration professionals+29.8%
- Legal, social, cultural and related associate professionals+23.4%
- Administrative and commercial managers+20.9%
- Refuse workers and other elementary workers−16.6%
- Assemblers−18.8%
- Hospitality, retail and other services managers−20.7%
- General and keyboard clerks−21.0%
- Food processing, wood working, garment and other craft and related trades workers−25.7%
- Handicraft and printing workers−29.9%
Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026
What employers say (WEF 2025)
10%
expected job churn by 2030
global: 22%
38%
of skills will change
global: 39%
100%
of firms run AI programmes
global: 88%
Small employer sample per country — indicative, not a precise measurement. WEF Future of Jobs Report 2025.