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Professionals · code 2162

Landscape architects

Landscape architects plan and design landscapes and open spaces for projects such as parks, schools, institutions, roads, external areas for commercial, industrial and residential sites, and plan and monitor their construction, maintenance and rehabilitation. Tasks include - (a) developing new or improved theories and methods and providing advice on policy related to landscape architecture; (b) inspecting sites and consulting clients, management and other stakeholders to determine type, style and size of proposed buildings, parks, roads and other open spaces; (c) compiling and analysing site and community data about geographical and ecological features, landforms, soils, vegetation, site hydrology, visual characteristics and human-made structures, to formulate land use and development recommendations, feasibility studies and environmental impact statements; (d) preparing reports, strategic plans, site plans, working drawings, specifications and cost estimates for land development, showing location and details of proposals, including ground modelling, structures, vegetation and access; (e) writing specifications and contract documents for use by builders and civil engineering contractors and calling tenders on behalf of clients; (f) making necessary contacts to ensure feasibility of projects regarding style, cost, timing and compliance with regulations; (g) identifying and finding best solutions for problems regarding function and quality of exterior environments and making necessary designs, drawings and plans; (h) monitoring construction or rehabilitation work to ensure compliance with specifications and quality standards; (i) maintaining technical liaison and consultancy with other relevant specialists. Example of the occupations classified here: - Landscape architect Some related occupations classified elsewhere: -Building architect - 2161 - Urban planner - 2164

A few tasks are affected, but the heart of the job isn't. It ranks 301 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • landscape architect

Job titles from the EU's ESCO list. Search for any of them on the jobs page and you'll end up here.

62.9
Holds up
against AI Minimal Exposure

AI could take on 37.1 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 37.1 = 62.9

That's the whole sum, and you can check it against the ILO's study.

21.6
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, matched to one US job

18.3
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 26.9 · hand skill 23.1 · cramped spaces 5 · averaged

Kind of hands-on work · hands-on under 50 Less than half hands-on

Less than half of this job is hands-on. Robots still matter, but for a smaller part of the work, so we don't sort it any further.

estimated O*NET 31.0 BLS occupational crosswalk chain ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC (Aug 2012, rev. Jun 2015); 2010 to 2018 SOC (Nov 2017); O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy data 0.7-work-setting measures chosen by Frey & Osborne (2017) · the grouping is a sorting, not a measurement

What this number leaves out This job rates 21.6 out of 100 for how hands-on it is. The score above only looks at AI tools, not robots, but for work this far from the physical that matters less.

The tasks behind the score

The score is the average of these. A job is really a bundle of tasks, and an average can hide how uneven that bundle is.

The task AI could do most of scores 46.5, while the average is 37.1. A big gap means some of this job is wide open to AI and some of it barely at all. That's quite different from a job where everything sits somewhere in the middle, even when the averages match.

  1. 46.5

    Compiling and analysing site and community data about geographical and ecological features, landforms, soils, vegetation, site hydrology, visual characteristics and human-made structures, to formulate land use and development recommendations, feasibility studies and environmental impact statements

    Low
  2. 44

    Writing specifications and contract documents for use by builders and civil engineering contractors and calling tenders on behalf of clients

    Low
  3. 41.8

    Preparing reports, strategic plans, site plans, working drawings, specifications and cost estimates for land development, showing location and details of proposals, including ground modelling, structures, vegetation and access

    Low
  4. 41.3

    Identifying and finding best solutions for problems regarding function and quality of exterior environments and making necessary designs, drawings and plans

    Low
  5. 38.5

    Making necessary contacts to ensure feasibility of projects regarding style, cost, timing and compliance with regulations

    Low
  6. 36.5

    Maintaining technical liaison and consultancy with other relevant specialists.

    Low
  7. 36

    Developing new or improved theories and methods and providing advice on policy related to landscape architecture

    Low
  8. 27.3

    Inspecting sites and consulting clients, management and other stakeholders to determine type, style and size of proposed buildings, parks, roads and other open spaces

    Low
  9. 22

    Monitoring construction or rehabilitation work to ensure compliance with specifications and quality standards

    Very Low

9 tasks · the High to Very Low labels are the ILO's

from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.7-work-setting

Helped, or replaced?

The score above can't tell a tool that makes you faster from one that does the task instead of you. Jobs and Skills Australia looked at those two things separately, and this is their result, matched to this job.

One Australian job matches this one closely, so this is about as reliable as it gets here.

AI helps you
72
AI does it for you
46

Helping wins by 26 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 2321

Compared with similar jobs

There are 92 jobs in the “Professionals” group, averaging 61.3. This one is above that.