Job market reports · Skill · October 2026
genai
166 live US technical postings name genai 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 166 postings naming genai that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".
- 1Software Engineer27.7%
- 2AI Engineer21.7%
- 3Machine Learning Engineer17.5%
- 4Data Scientist9.6%
- 5Data Engineer6%
- 6DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer4.8%
- 7Security Engineer3.6%
- 8Full-Stack Engineer3%
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.
- 1Remote27.1%
- 2New York, NY18.1%
- 3San Francisco, CA10.8%
- 4Washington, DC5.4%
- 5Silicon Valley, CA4.2%
- 6Boston, MA3.6%
- 7Seattle, WA3.6%
- 8Chicago, IL1.8%
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.