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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

generative ai

399 live US technical postings name generative ai 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 399 postings naming generative ai that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer28.3%
  2. 2AI Engineer18.8%
  3. 3Data Scientist17.8%
  4. 4Machine Learning Engineer17.8%
  5. 5DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer5.3%
  6. 6Data Engineer5%
  7. 7Full-Stack Engineer2.3%
  8. 8Data Analyst2%

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 generative ai is named
n = 255
10th
$141k
25th
$172k
Median
$200k
75th
$230k
90th
$260k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote20.8%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA12.8%
  3. 3Silicon Valley, CA9.8%
  4. 4New York, NY8.8%
  5. 5Washington, DC5.5%
  6. 6Seattle, WA4.3%
  7. 7Boston, MA2.5%
  8. 8Denver, CO2%

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.