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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

agentic ai

249 live US technical postings name agentic ai in September 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 249 postings naming agentic ai that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer36.1%
  2. 2AI Engineer19.3%
  3. 3Data Scientist10.4%
  4. 4Machine Learning Engineer10%
  5. 5DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer7.2%
  6. 6Full-Stack Engineer7.2%
  7. 7Security Engineer5.6%
  8. 8Data Engineer2.8%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where agentic ai is named
n = 134
10th
$140k
25th
$161k
Median
$200k
75th
$242k
90th
$286k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote16.5%
  2. 2Silicon Valley, CA10.4%
  3. 3San Francisco, CA10%
  4. 4New York, NY9.2%
  5. 5Washington, DC8.4%
  6. 6Boston, MA3.6%
  7. 7Seattle, WA2.8%
  8. 8Dallas, TX2.4%

How we counted

668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.