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Professionals · code 2511

Systems analysts

Systems analysts conduct research, analyse and evaluate client information technology requirements, procedures or problems, and develop and implement proposals, recommendations, and plans to improve current or future information systems. Tasks include - (a) consulting with users to formulate document requirements and with management to ensure agreement on systems principles; (b) identifying and analysing business processes, procedures and work practices; (c) identifying and evaluating inefficiencies and recommending optimal business practices and system functionality and behaviour; (d) taking responsibility for deploying functional solutions, such as creating, adopting and implementing system test plans; (e) developing functional specifications for use by systems developers; (f) expanding or modifying systems to improve workflow or serve new purposes; (g) coordinating and linking the computer systems within an organization to increase compatibility. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Business analyst (IT) - Computer scientist - Information systems analyst - Systems consultant - Systems designer (IT) Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Systems administrator (computers) - 2522 - Communications analyst (computers) - 2523 - Network analyst - 2523

A good share of the tasks are affected. It ranks 372 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • integration engineer
  • data scientist
  • ICT consultant
  • ICT intelligent systems designer
  • ICT research consultant
  • ICT system integration consultant
  • ICT business analyst
  • ICT system developer
  • data analyst
  • enterprise architect
  • ICT system analyst
  • ICT system architect
  • ICT business analysis manager
  • green ICT consultant
  • computer scientist
  • user experience analyst
  • embedded system designer
  • IT auditor

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

51
Holds up
against AI Exposed: Gradient 2

AI could take on 49 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 49 = 51

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

24.7
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, averaged across 3 US jobs

23.9
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 37.1 · hand skill 22.7 · cramped spaces 11.8 · 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 24.7 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 56.3, while the average is 49. 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. 56.3

    Developing functional specifications for use by systems developers

    Medium
  2. 54.8

    Coordinating and linking the computer systems within an organization to increase compatibility.

    Medium
  3. 49.5

    Consulting with users to formulate and document requirements and with management to ensure agreement on systems principles

    Low
  4. 48.5

    Identifying and evaluating inefficiencies and recommending optimal business practices and system functionality and behaviour

    Low
  5. 45.5

    Identifying and analysing business processes, procedures and work practices

    Low
  6. 45

    Taking responsibility for deploying functional solutions, such as creating, adopting and implementing system test plans

    Low
  7. 43.5

    Expanding or modifying systems to improve workflow or serve new purposes

    Low

7 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, but only partly: not everyone in it does this job. Treat the numbers as a rough guide.

AI helps you
77
AI does it for you
58

Helping wins by 19 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 2611

Compared with similar jobs

There are 92 jobs in the “Professionals” group, averaging 61.4. This one is below that.