Deel, a global HR platform, reports a worldwide increase in AI roles, both in workers hired and in organizations that are hiring. The company had more than 5,000 active AI, data science and engineering contracts with more than 2,100 organizations as of September. Several trends have emerged:

• The number of AI, software engineering and data science roles paid through Deel organizations grew 60% in the last year.
• There was a 59% increase in organizations hiring AI, software engineering and data science roles over the last year.
• The United States dominated AI hiring, followed closely by Canada, the United Kingdom and to a lesser extent, Germany.
• Canada led AI worker hires, followed by India, Spain, Germany and the United Kingdom.
• Salaries vary by region, but Latin America benefitted most from AI growth, with a modest but steady increase in average salaries over the year.

"No region is immune to the AI hiring craze," a report from Deel said. "Our hypothesis is that complementary trends have allowed AI to touch all corners of the globe. The speed of adoption necessitated a rate of hiring that broke traditional hiring barriers globally. However, this paradigm shift toward global hiring was only possible because of emerging employer-of-record models that allow for the cross-border onboarding of highly skilled talent."