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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

agentic systems

184 live US technical postings name agentic systems 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 184 postings naming agentic systems that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer38%
  2. 2AI Engineer25.5%
  3. 3Machine Learning Engineer10.9%
  4. 4Security Engineer9.8%
  5. 5Data Scientist7.6%
  6. 6Backend Engineer2.7%
  7. 7DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer2.7%
  8. 8Full-Stack Engineer1.6%

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 systems is named
n = 94
10th
$153k
25th
$191k
Median
$223k
75th
$282k
90th
$319k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA21.7%
  2. 2Remote19%
  3. 3New York, NY15.8%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA12%
  5. 5Seattle, WA4.3%
  6. 6Austin, TX3.8%
  7. 7Boston, MA3.3%
  8. 8Washington, DC3.3%

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.