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Job market reports · Skill · August 2026

ai/ml

165 live US technical postings name ai/ml in August 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 165 postings naming ai/ml that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer51.5%
  2. 2Data Scientist12.1%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer9.1%
  4. 4Data Engineer7.3%
  5. 5Security Engineer5.5%
  6. 6AI Engineer3.6%
  7. 7Full-Stack Engineer3.6%
  8. 8Machine Learning Engineer2.4%

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/ml is named

Not enough disclosed salaries to publish a band — only 22 of these postings state one. We would rather show nothing than a median built on a handful of rows.

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1New York, NY12.7%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA12.7%
  3. 3Remote12.1%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA10.9%
  5. 5Seattle, WA4.8%
  6. 6Austin, TX3%
  7. 7Washington, DC3%
  8. 8Chicago, IL1.8%

How we counted

457,191 live US postings read directly from 64,697 employers’ own careers pages in August 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.