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20% of open engineering leadership roles in Italy mention AI coding tools

Across 10 open EM, Staff, Principal, Head, Director and VP engineering roles at 8 companies, from public job boards. "EU" here means Europe: the EU-27, the UK, Switzerland, Norway and the rest of Europe, plus remote roles open across Europe.

10

Open leadership roles in Italy

2

Mention AI coding tools

20%

0

Mention AI governance or the EU AI Act

0%

Open engineering leadership roles in Europe by country
CountryOpen rolesMention AI toolsShare
United Kingdom2934716%
Germany2435021%
France9377.5%
Poland742939%
Spain732230%
Remote, Europe-wide5347.5%
Netherlands40923%
Portugal36925%
Ireland33618%
Sweden29517%
Switzerland1715.9%
Belgium17635%
Serbia1715.9%
Finland15533%
Greece1417.1%
Austria14214%
Lithuania11436%
Bulgaria11218%
Italy10220%
Denmark10220%
Romania9111%
Norway900%
Slovakia700%
Cyprus6117%
Czechia6233%
Hungary5240%
Latvia400%
Slovenia3133%
Ukraine300%
Malta300%
Croatia100%
North Macedonia100%

A posting counts for the first European country it lists. Remote roles open across Europe have no single country.

Leadership vs individual contributors in Italy

All 90 open engineering roles: 8.9% mention AI coding tools. Leadership 20%, individual contributors 7.5%.

Share of open roles mentioning AI coding tools, by role family
Role familyShare mentioning AI toolsMention AIOpen roles
Engineering leadership20%210
Software (general)0%030
Data / ML engineering11%219
Backend11%218
DevOps / SRE / Platform13%18
Mobile50%12
Frontend0%01
Full stack0%01
Security engineering0%01

Posting languages in Italy

All open engineering roles by the language the posting is written in. Tags are matched in English and eight other European languages, so local-language postings count too.

Open engineering roles by posting language
LanguageShare of postingsOpen rolesMention AI tools
English71%6413%
Italian28%250%
Not detected1.1%10%

Top tools in Italy

Tool, share of open-role mentions7dOpen
  1. GitHub Copilot11
  2. Cursor11
  3. Agentic workflows01
  4. AI-assisted development01

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