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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

ai coding tools

151 live US technical postings name ai coding tools 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 151 postings naming ai coding tools that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer61.6%
  2. 2Full-Stack Engineer13.9%
  3. 3Frontend Engineer6.6%
  4. 4AI Engineer4%
  5. 5Data Engineer4%
  6. 6DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer4%
  7. 7Backend Engineer2.6%
  8. 8Machine Learning Engineer2%

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 coding tools is named
n = 96
10th
$133k
25th
$167k
Median
$192k
75th
$216k
90th
$268k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA22.5%
  2. 2Remote16.6%
  3. 3New York, NY15.9%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA9.3%
  5. 5Boston, MA4.6%
  6. 6Austin, TX4%
  7. 7Denver, CO2.6%
  8. 8Seattle, WA2.6%

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.