Hands-on jobs like tradies are the most likely to weather the storm of artificial intelligence as a new report reveals the roles most at risk by the advancing technology.

For the first time, the federal government has dug into the jobs data to analyse the impacts of AI over the four years since ChatGPT and generative tools began to be used in 2022.

Although the report found no significant impact to overall employment growth and no major shifts in the types of jobs Australians are doing, it did highlight which jobs may be exposed to AI-related disruption.

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Tradies were on solid ground with hands-on jobs the least exposed, including plumbers, electricians, child and aged care workers.

But desk jobs like accountants, receptionists and marketing professions are more at risk.

Workers in jobs most exposed to AI are more likely to be women and those with university degrees.

Men make up 70 per cent of the workers in safer jobs and fewer are tertiary qualified.

Which jobs are most at risk according to the report. Credit: Supplied

But right now Australia’s jobs market is weathering the AI storm.

“We find that employment has continued to grow, it’s continued to grow for young people as well who are thought to be most exposed and we’re overall seeing ongoing resilience in the Australian jobs market,” said chief economist and report author Matt Cowgill.

There was a softening in employment growth for those jobs deemed most exposed to AI, growing by 5.6 per cent compared to 9.5 per cent growth for the jobs deemed least exposed to AI.

Some of those highly exposed roles bucked the trend, like software developer employment which grew 25 per cent between November 2022 and February 2026.

Cowgill said there were reasons to believe Australia’s resilient jobs market was not a result of businesses trying to play catch-up with the technology.

“Australia is actually one of the world’s biggest users of AI,” he said.

“And the second reason to doubt this is just because of slow adoption is even in the US, which is the frontier of this issue, they’re still seeing their overall jobs market fair reasonably well.”

Federal Employment Minister Amanda Rishworth described the findings as encouraging news, with plans to use the report as a base framework.

“The good news is, we’re not seeing a big shift or disruption,” Rishworth said.

“Now we’ve established this baseline framework ,we certainly want to do ongoing reporting on this.”