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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

ai-assisted development

225 live US technical postings name ai-assisted development 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 225 postings naming ai-assisted development that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer72.9%
  2. 2Data Engineer7.1%
  3. 3Full-Stack Engineer7.1%
  4. 4DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer4.9%
  5. 5Backend Engineer3.1%
  6. 6Frontend Engineer2.2%
  7. 7Security Engineer2.2%

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.

Disclosed pay where ai-assisted development is named
n = 136
10th
$135k
25th
$160k
Median
$185k
75th
$220k
90th
$258k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote19.1%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA11.1%
  3. 3New York, NY7.6%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA4%
  5. 5Seattle, WA3.6%
  6. 6Chicago, IL3.1%
  7. 7Los Angeles, CA2.7%
  8. 8Washington, DC2.2%

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.