Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

agentic workflows

197 live US technical postings name agentic workflows 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 197 postings naming agentic workflows that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer45.7%
  2. 2AI Engineer21.8%
  3. 3Data Scientist8.1%
  4. 4Machine Learning Engineer6.1%
  5. 5DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer4.6%
  6. 6Data Engineer4.1%
  7. 7Security Engineer4.1%
  8. 8Backend Engineer3%

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 workflows is named
n = 103
10th
$145k
25th
$165k
Median
$200k
75th
$241k
90th
$275k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1New York, NY21.8%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA16.8%
  3. 3Remote15.7%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA6.6%
  5. 5Washington, DC3%
  6. 6Seattle, WA2.5%
  7. 7Austin, TX1.5%
  8. 8Boston, MA1.5%

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.