{"id":157316,"date":"2025-10-28T09:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T08:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/e3mag.com\/?p=157316"},"modified":"2025-10-28T16:39:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T15:39:54","slug":"snowflake-study-on-the-ai-labor-market-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/snowflake-studie-zum-ki-arbeitsmarkt-in-spanien\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowflake Study on the AI Labor Market in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The study, conducted in June and July 2025 and surveying 200 senior professionals from large companies in Spain, revealed that 71 percent of companies are already in advanced stages of AI adoption. Despite this widespread adoption, a significant number of respondents indicate that the true scalability of their projects is hampered by three major challenges: lack of trust in AI (37 percent), talent shortage (20 percent), and data quality (19 percent). Other notable challenges cited include high costs (11 percent) and regulation (10 percent).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis finding highlights that trust is a major challenge for AI scalability,\u201d said Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Alonso, country manager for Spain and Portugal at Snowflake. \u201cOur research shows that companies in Spain not only need to develop their AI capabilities, but also ensure their explainability, robustness, and ethical alignment so that users and stakeholders can fully trust their decisions and results.\u201d<\/p><div id=\"great-345487076\" class=\"great-fullsize-content-en great-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-bottom: 20px;\"><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6ZGXMPyM-nU\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"banner_26-04_29_1200x150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-400x50.jpg 400w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-768x96.jpg 768w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-100x13.jpg 100w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-480x60.jpg 480w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-640x80.jpg 640w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-720x90.jpg 720w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-960x120.jpg 960w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-1168x146.jpg 1168w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-18x2.jpg 18w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-600x75.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" width=\"1200\" height=\"150\"  style=\" max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"982\" src=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Jose-Maria-Alonso-country-manager-Snowflake.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-157331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Jose-Maria-Alonso-country-manager-Snowflake.png 1200w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Jose-Maria-Alonso-country-manager-Snowflake-400x327.png 400w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Jose-Maria-Alonso-country-manager-Snowflake-768x628.png 768w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Jose-Maria-Alonso-country-manager-Snowflake-100x82.png 100w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Jose-Maria-Alonso-country-manager-Snowflake-480x393.png 480w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Jose-Maria-Alonso-country-manager-Snowflake-640x524.png 640w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Jose-Maria-Alonso-country-manager-Snowflake-720x589.png 720w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Jose-Maria-Alonso-country-manager-Snowflake-960x786.png 960w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Jose-Maria-Alonso-country-manager-Snowflake-1168x956.png 1168w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Jose-Maria-Alonso-country-manager-Snowflake-15x12.png 15w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Jose-Maria-Alonso-country-manager-Snowflake-600x491.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200e\u200e<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200e<em>\u201eOur research shows that companies in Spain not only need to further develop their AI capabilities, but also ensure their explainability, robustness and ethical alignment.\u201d<\/em><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Alonso, <\/strong><br>Country Manager for Spain and Portugal, <br>Snowflake.<\/em><br><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Strategies for attracting and retaining talent<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Snowflake's latest study indicates a shortage of AI talent in Spain. An overwhelming majority of local organizations (96 percent) say that the availability of professionals directly influences their AI investment decisions. To address this situation, companies are choosing to retrain employees (46 percent) and increase salaries or other benefits (45 percent) in order to attract and retain talent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"It's not just about finding AI experts, but professionals who understand how to apply AI strategically to ensure that it is understood and relevant to business objectives. It's clear that to take advantage of the opportunity presented by AI, organizations need to rely on data platforms that simplify their data architectures, enabling existing teams to be more productive and reducing dependence on highly specialized and hard-to-find talent profiles,\" explains Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other strategies that companies are using to address the current AI talent shortage include adjusting job requirements to expand the pool of candidates (41 percent), outsourcing AI-related work to third parties or consultants (41 percent), and hiring people with different career paths unrelated to AI (39 percent).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the study, some of the roles that organizations in Spain have had the most difficulty filling are those that combine technical skills with strategic, legal, and ethical knowledge, such as AI consultants (29 percent), legal experts in AI (29 percent), and AI solution architects (29 percent). The demand for experts in AI ethics (24 percent) is also significant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Modern, easy-to-use data platforms that can democratize data can help organizations overcome challenges such as a lack of specialized personnel and mistrust of AI by centralizing business data in a fully governed environment with an AI layer overlaid. This should be accompanied by good management practices across the organization, such as role-based access to ensure that the right business department and users can access the right data and use AI to power their analytics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"AI is increasingly blurring the lines that have always existed between technical and business teams. These traditional boundaries were never due to a lack of desire to collaborate, but rather a lack of common language and tools. With AI, natural language is now the universal language for data, empowering business leaders to become more active participants in data analysis, while enabling data analysts and engineers to elevate their roles, becoming more strategic partners within their companies,\" adds Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Methodology<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The research was conducted by Censuswide with 200 respondents in Spain: corporate data directors, AI directors, and IT directors in companies with more than 250 employees (aged 25+) between June 27, 2025, and July 3, 2025. Censuswide complies with and employs members of the Market Research Society, which is based on ESOMAR principles, and is a member of the British Polling Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: Snowflake<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lack of trust and talent shortages are the main obstacles to the adoption of AI in companies in Spain, according to a new study on the Artificial Intelligence Job Market in Spain, published by Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud 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