Brokers
Brokers deal in commodities, stocks, shares and foreign exchange on behalf of clients or on own account, broker insurance and reinsurance, and buy and sell shipping and freight space.
- Employees (UK)
- 19k
- Median annual pay
- £51,026
- Exposure score ?
- 1.5/10 Minimal 9.7/10 Very high strict reading, with tools is 9.7/10 with-tools reading, strict is 1.5/10
- Wage exposure
- £145m £940m
Higher exposure than 69% of the 379 UK occupations we scored.
What this score means.
Most of this role's work is still hard for AI: physical presence, practised skill, judgement in context and direct care, the things that do not turn into text.
If you are in this role
Nothing here is under pressure today, but the frontier moves. Learn enough to direct AI at the paperwork around the job. People in hands-on roles who can do that become unusually useful inside their organisations.
Almost every routine task in this role is within reach of today's models. Roles like this are being rebuilt, usually not by disappearing but by one person using AI to produce what several did.
If you are in this role
Be the person doing the rebuilding. People who learn to run this kind of work with AI become very valuable, and the ones who wait tend to have the change made for them.
Where the work usually starts.
These are the most important tasks a language model can already handle directly. In a typical engagement the first wins come from building workflows around them, so they stop eating the team's time.
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Keep accurate records of transactions.
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Complete sales order tickets and submit for processing of client-requested transactions.
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Report all positions or trading results.
These are the most important tasks AI can already handle when paired with the right tools and context. The first wins usually come from building workflows around them. That is the difference between a model that could do the job and one that actually does it inside your business.
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Make bids or offers to buy or sell securities.
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Monitor markets or positions.
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Agree on buying or selling prices at optimal levels for clients.
Every role has three or four places like these. Finding them takes an hour. Turning them into a workflow your team actually uses takes a few days.
Every task in the role.
Every O*NET task for this occupation, split by what AI can do unaided and what still needs a person. Importance is O*NET's 1 to 5 rating of how central each task is.
Tasks via O*NET "Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents" (41-3031.00).
What AI can already do
6 of 30 tasks, unaided
Keep accurate records of transactions.
Complete sales order tickets and submit for processing of client-requested transactions.
Report all positions or trading results.
Explain stock market terms or trading practices to clients.
Calculate costs for billings or commissions.
Prepare and send requests for price quotations to all companies in a particular market.
What still needs a person
24 of 30 tasks
Make bids or offers to buy or sell securities.
Monitor markets or positions.
Agree on buying or selling prices at optimal levels for clients.
Buy or sell stocks, bonds, commodity futures, foreign currencies, or other securities on behalf of investment dealers.
Interview clients to determine clients' assets, liabilities, cash flow, insurance coverage, tax status, or financial objectives.
Discuss financial options with clients and keep them informed about transactions.
Identify opportunities or develop channels for purchase or sale of securities or commodities.
Develop financial plans, based on analysis of clients' financial status.
Review all securities transactions to ensure accuracy of information and conformance to governing agency regulations.
Supervise support staff and ensure proper execution of contracts.
Devise trading, option, or hedge strategies.
Determine customers' financial services needs and prepare proposals to sell services that address these needs.
Track and analyze factors that affect price movement, such as trade policies, weather conditions, political developments, or supply and demand changes.
Inform other traders, managers, or customers of market conditions, including volume, price, competition, or dynamics.
Offer advice on the purchase or sale of particular securities.
Relay buy or sell orders to securities exchanges or to firm trading departments.
Contact prospective customers to present information and explain available services.
Prepare financial reports to monitor client or corporate finances.
Supply the latest price quotes on any security, as well as information on the activities or financial positions of the corporations issuing these securities.
Evaluate costs and revenue of agreements to determine continued profitability.
Sell services or equipment, such as trusts, investments, or check processing services.
Negotiate prices or contracts for securities or commodities sales or purchases.
Price securities or commodities based on market conditions.
Purchase or sell financial derivatives for customers.
Tasks via O*NET "Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents" (41-3031.00).
What AI can already do
30 of 30 tasks, with tools
Make bids or offers to buy or sell securities.
Monitor markets or positions.
Agree on buying or selling prices at optimal levels for clients.
Keep accurate records of transactions.
Buy or sell stocks, bonds, commodity futures, foreign currencies, or other securities on behalf of investment dealers.
Complete sales order tickets and submit for processing of client-requested transactions.
Report all positions or trading results.
Interview clients to determine clients' assets, liabilities, cash flow, insurance coverage, tax status, or financial objectives.
Discuss financial options with clients and keep them informed about transactions.
Identify opportunities or develop channels for purchase or sale of securities or commodities.
Develop financial plans, based on analysis of clients' financial status.
Review all securities transactions to ensure accuracy of information and conformance to governing agency regulations.
Supervise support staff and ensure proper execution of contracts.
Devise trading, option, or hedge strategies.
Determine customers' financial services needs and prepare proposals to sell services that address these needs.
Track and analyze factors that affect price movement, such as trade policies, weather conditions, political developments, or supply and demand changes.
Inform other traders, managers, or customers of market conditions, including volume, price, competition, or dynamics.
Offer advice on the purchase or sale of particular securities.
Relay buy or sell orders to securities exchanges or to firm trading departments.
Contact prospective customers to present information and explain available services.
Explain stock market terms or trading practices to clients.
Calculate costs for billings or commissions.
Prepare financial reports to monitor client or corporate finances.
Supply the latest price quotes on any security, as well as information on the activities or financial positions of the corporations issuing these securities.
Evaluate costs and revenue of agreements to determine continued profitability.
Sell services or equipment, such as trusts, investments, or check processing services.
Prepare and send requests for price quotations to all companies in a particular market.
Negotiate prices or contracts for securities or commodities sales or purchases.
Price securities or commodities based on market conditions.
Purchase or sell financial derivatives for customers.
What still needs a person
0 of 30 tasks
When AI is paired with workflow tools, every task in this role is reachable. That doesn't mean the role disappears, it means almost all the routine surface area can be compressed.
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What it means for your sector.
This role's score comes from Eloundou et al's 2023 task labels, weighted by O*NET importance within each O*NET-SOC code, then bridged to UK SOC 2020 through ISCO-08 (the ONS coding index) and US SOC 2010 (the BLS crosswalk). Employment and median pay come from ONS ASHE Table 14.7a, 2025 provisional, which covers employees only.
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