Job market reports · Skill · September 2026
ai tools
352 live US technical postings name ai 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 352 postings naming ai tools that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".
- 1Software Engineer51.4%
- 2Data Analyst9.9%
- 3Data Scientist9.4%
- 4Frontend Engineer6.5%
- 5Full-Stack Engineer5.4%
- 6Data Engineer4.8%
- 7DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer4.3%
- 8Security Engineer3.4%
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.
Where those jobs are
Metro share of the postings naming this skill.
- 1Remote17.3%
- 2San Francisco, CA17.3%
- 3New York, NY14.2%
- 4Boston, MA6.3%
- 5Silicon Valley, CA5.4%
- 6Seattle, WA2.6%
- 7Austin, TX2.3%
- 8Chicago, IL1.7%
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.