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11 September 2015

Type your job title into the search box below to find out the likelihood that it
could be automated within the next two decades.

About 35% of current jobs in the UK are at high risk of computerisation over
the following 20 years, according to a study by researchers at Oxford
University and Deloitte.
 Tap here for the interactive.

Sources
'The Future of Employment: How susceptible are jobs to automation'. Data
supplied by Michael Osborne and Carl Frey, from Oxford University's Martin
School. Figures on UK job numbers and average wages from the Office for
National Statistics and Deloitte UK.

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Oxford University academics Michael Osborne and Carl Frey calculated how
susceptible to automation each job is based on nine key skills required to
perform it; social perceptiveness, negotiation, persuasion, assisting and caring
for others, originality, fine arts, finger dexterity, manual dexterity and the need
to work in a cramped work space.

The research was originally carried out using detailed job data from the United
States O*NET employment database. The analysis for UK jobs was made by
adapting the findings to corresponding occupations in the UK based on Office
for National Statistics job classifications. For the purpose of the UK study,
some US occupations were merged. In these cases, the probabilities were
calculated as weighted averages of the probabilities of automation for each
US occupation within the group.

Some job names have been edited for clarity. Where average salary has been
mentioned, the median has been used. Figures are not available for
occupations in the military, or for politicians.

*Where two jobs have the same figure for their risk of automation but are ranked differently this is because
the data goes to more than one decimal place.

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