1、Insights on the fastest-growing job skills in the AI eraIndustry Skills Brief20262Industry Skills Brief 20260203010405060708Table of contents01Introduction 302Energy 603Financial services 1004Healthcare and pharmaceutical 1405Professional services 1806Retail and consumer 2207Technology/IT 2608Conclu
2、sion 30 Endnotes 353Industry Skills Brief 2026|Introduction020301040506070801Introduction4Industry Skills Brief 2026|Introduction0203010405060708IntroductionThe pace of skill development now drives the pace of labor market change.Last year,the dominant narrative around AI often focused on automation
3、what machines could take away.But the data from the Job Skills Report 2026 paints a more nuanced picture defined by both augmentation and automation.In the Industry Skills Brief 2026,we analyze skill trends across six key industries that account for a significant share of Coursera enterprise learner
4、 enrollments:Energy,Financial Services,Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals,Professional Services,Retail and Consumer,and Technology.This report arrives at a moment when AI-driven automation is imminently changing the skills organizations need.1 These shifts extend beyond technical roles and skills.Resear
5、ch from McKinsey&Company,for example,suggests that 72%of all work skills will soon require a combination of human judgment and AI assistance.2 Leaders must now determine which tasks to offload completely to autonomous agents and which to elevate through human-machine collaboration.Learners are turni
6、ng to Coursera to bridge this divide.We are seeing 14 enrollments per minute in our catalog of over 1,000 generative AI courses,up from eight per minute last year.In fact,generative AI is now the most in-demand skill in Courseras history.With data from millions of learners across nearly 7,000 enterp