Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

agentic workflows

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

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 209 postings naming agentic workflows that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer44.5%
  2. 2AI Engineer23.9%
  3. 3Machine Learning Engineer9.1%
  4. 4Data Scientist6.7%
  5. 5Security Engineer5.7%
  6. 6DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer4.3%
  7. 7Data Engineer3.3%
  8. 8Backend Engineer1%

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 = 114
10th
$146k
25th
$163k
Median
$198k
75th
$233k
90th
$275k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote22.5%
  2. 2New York, NY19.1%
  3. 3San Francisco, CA15.3%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA7.2%
  5. 5Washington, DC2.9%
  6. 6Seattle, WA2.4%
  7. 7Austin, TX1.9%
  8. 8Boston, MA1.4%

How we counted

967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.