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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

ai-assisted development

201 live US technical postings name ai-assisted development 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 201 postings naming ai-assisted development that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer71.1%
  2. 2Data Engineer8.5%
  3. 3Full-Stack Engineer6%
  4. 4DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer5%
  5. 5Frontend Engineer3%
  6. 6Security Engineer3%
  7. 7Backend Engineer2%
  8. 8Data Scientist1%

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 = 117
10th
$129k
25th
$158k
Median
$185k
75th
$226k
90th
$262k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote21.4%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA10%
  3. 3New York, NY5.5%
  4. 4Austin, TX4.5%
  5. 5Boston, MA4.5%
  6. 6Silicon Valley, CA4%
  7. 7Atlanta, GA2.5%
  8. 8Chicago, IL2.5%

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.