AI roles in Australia right now
266 live AI roles. Median advertised salaries of $140,000–$170,000. Here is where the demand is.
Where the roles are
141 live AI roles in Sydney — 53% of the market. 191 roles, or 72%, sit in Sydney and Melbourne.
Seniority
113 live roles are senior, lead or executive — 42% of the market. 7 are junior. Mid and senior AI talent is what employers want.
Roles in demand
88 live roles sit in AI and LLM engineering, architecture and machine learning — 33% of the market. 22 are AI leadership roles. 18 are AI automation roles.
Most advertised titles
AI Engineer leads the market, with 15 live roles.
- AI Engineer (15)
- Machine Learning Engineer (5)
- Senior AI Engineer (5)
- Executive Director National AI Centre (4)
- Senior AI Architect (4)
- AI Outcome Customer Engineer, Google Cloud (3)
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer (3)
- Business Manager – AI (3)
- AI Governance Specialist (3)
- AI Solutions Architect (3)
- Principal AI Engineer (2)
- Senior React AI Developer (2)
- Senior Software AI Engineer - Fully Remote - Upto $1,1000 per day (2)
- Copilot & Power Platform Consultant (2)
- Data Scientist (2)
What AI roles pay
Median advertised salaries of $140,000–$170,000. The largest share of advertised AI salaries sits in the $150,000–$200,000 range.
Annual salaries
Median advertised range $140,000 to $170,000.
Advertised figures run from $70,000 to $350,000, including an APAC AI Lead range of $250,000–$350,000.
Daily contract rates
Median advertised day rates of $950–$1,050 a day, in a published spread of $450 to $1,500.
Hourly contract rates
Median advertised hourly rates of $140–$160 an hour, in a published spread of $120 to $180.
Advertised annual salary bands
Skills in demand
Machine learning leads the skills employers are hiring for, named in 67 live AI roles. Automation, governance, data science and agentic AI follow.
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