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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

ai coding tools

167 live US technical postings name ai coding tools 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 167 postings naming ai coding tools that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer62.3%
  2. 2Full-Stack Engineer12.6%
  3. 3Frontend Engineer6.6%
  4. 4AI Engineer6%
  5. 5Data Engineer3.6%
  6. 6DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer3%
  7. 7Backend Engineer2.4%
  8. 8Machine Learning Engineer1.8%

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 = 107
10th
$138k
25th
$165k
Median
$190k
75th
$210k
90th
$235k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA24.6%
  2. 2Remote15.6%
  3. 3New York, NY10.8%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA7.8%
  5. 5Austin, TX5.4%
  6. 6Boston, MA3.6%
  7. 7Chicago, IL1.8%
  8. 8Denver, CO1.8%

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.