AI-Led Job Losses Bite for London’s Coders, Lawyers and Analysts

Search for “finance analyst” and you’re likely to find around 80 vacancies in London, according to a prominent recruitment website. If that seems like a surprisingly low number for one of the world’s biggest banking and corporate hubs, it’s because it is — four years earlier, the same website featured more than 350 of these roles.

The job has become one of the main victims of artificial intelligence. It’s a fate shared with other white-collar positions as the suit-clad workers that once packed into London’s offices, pubs and Tube carriages increasingly look like ghosts of the Square Mile’s past. ...