Job market reports · Skill · September 2026
ai agents
346 live US technical postings name ai agents 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 346 postings naming ai agents that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".
- 1Software Engineer50%
- 2AI Engineer15.3%
- 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer7.5%
- 4Data Scientist6.1%
- 5Data Engineer4.6%
- 6Security Engineer4.3%
- 7Backend Engineer3.2%
- 8Full-Stack Engineer3.2%
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, CA21.1%
- 2Remote16.8%
- 3New York, NY14.2%
- 4Silicon Valley, CA7.8%
- 5Los Angeles, CA2.3%
- 6Austin, TX2%
- 7Chicago, IL2%
- 8Dallas, TX1.7%
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.