Europe was the fastest-growing region for the hiring of artificial intelligence-related jobs among food manufacturers in the three months ending March, GlobalData suggests.

The number of roles on offer in Europe made up 24% of total AI jobs, up from 19.8% in the same quarter last year.

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GlobalData tracks the number of new job postings from key companies in various sectors over time. Using textual analysis, these job advertisements are then classified thematically. The data and analytics group, Just Food’s parent company, seeks to group key company information by topic to see which companies are best placed to weather the disruptions coming to their industries.

By tracking the themes across job advertisements, GlobalData says it can see which companies are leading the way on specific issues and which are dragging their heels – and importantly where the market is expanding and contracting.

Which countries are seeing the most growth for AI job ads in the food industry?

The fastest-growing country was the Netherlands, which accounted for 5.1% of the AI job ads open in the three months ending March this year, up from 1.5% in the opening quarter of 2021.

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That was followed by France (up 2.8 percentage points), Vietnam (1.8), and Spain (1.6).

Overall, the top country for AI roles in the food industry was the US, which housed 37.9% of all roles advertised in the three months ending March.

Which cities are the biggest hubs for AI workers in the food industry?

Some 8.1% of all food industry AI roles were advertised in Plano in the US in the three months ending March.

That was followed by Barcelona with 5.9%, Bengaluru in India with 4.8% and Plaisir in France with 3.8%.

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