not in the EU
Switzerland
~34%
Work in exposed occupations
~1.65 m · estimate · 2025
5.1%
Unemployment
±0.0 pp (May 2026)
Jun 2026
9.0%
Youth unemployment (<25)
Jun 2026
1.5%
Job vacancy rate
Q4 2025
82.4%
Employment rate (20–64)
2025
–
Firms using AI
Eurostat publishes no AI-adoption data for Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
0.76
IMF AI Preparedness Index
IMF · 2023
4.84 m
Employed
2025 · Eurostat
Unemployment, monthly
SwitzerlandEU27Eurostat 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 — Switzerland
- 45Not exposed
- 21Minimal
- 4Low
- 11Medium
- 11High
- 8Highest
Outlook to 2035 (Cedefop)
The fastest growing and shrinking occupational groups between 2025 and 2035.
−1.7%
Change 2025→2035
1.33 m
Total expected openings
2025–2035
1.42 m
Replacement demand
−92 k
Expansion
- Chief executives, senior officials and legislators+36.6%
- Agricultural, forestry and fishery labourers+28.9%
- Information and communications technology professionals+19.9%
- Labourers in mining, construction, manufacturing and transport+19.9%
- Administrative and commercial managers+17.9%
- Business and administration professionals+14.8%
- Sales workers−20.6%
- Teaching professionals−22.8%
- Stationary plant and machine operators−23.4%
- Food processing, wood working, garment and other craft and related trades workers−32.0%
- Handicraft and printing workers−36.6%
- General and keyboard clerks−49.4%
Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026
What employers say (WEF 2025)
14%
expected job churn by 2030
global: 22%
41%
of skills will change
global: 39%
95%
of firms run AI programmes
global: 88%
Small employer sample per country — indicative, not a precise measurement. WEF Future of Jobs Report 2025.