Job market reports · Skill · August 2026
ai agents
191 live US technical postings name ai agents in August 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.
Which roles ask for it
Share of the 191 postings naming ai agents that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".
- 1Software Engineer41.9%
- 2AI Engineer16.2%
- 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer7.3%
- 4Security Engineer7.3%
- 5Data Scientist6.8%
- 6Data Engineer6.3%
- 7Data Analyst4.2%
- 8Machine Learning Engineer4.2%
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.
Where those jobs are
Metro share of the postings naming this skill.
- 1San Francisco, CA21.5%
- 2Remote19.9%
- 3New York, NY15.7%
- 4Silicon Valley, CA5.8%
- 5Washington, DC3.1%
- 6Chicago, IL2.6%
- 7Los Angeles, CA2.6%
- 8Austin, TX2.1%
How we counted
457,191 live US postings read directly from 64,697 employers’ own careers pages in August 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.