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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

prompt engineering

409 live US technical postings name prompt engineering 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 409 postings naming prompt engineering that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer37.9%
  2. 2AI Engineer34%
  3. 3Data Scientist9.5%
  4. 4Machine Learning Engineer7.1%
  5. 5DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer3.4%
  6. 6Full-Stack Engineer2.7%
  7. 7Data Analyst1.7%
  8. 8Data Engineer1.5%

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 prompt engineering is named
n = 222
10th
$116k
25th
$155k
Median
$185k
75th
$226k
90th
$265k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote18.1%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA17.6%
  3. 3New York, NY11.2%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA8.8%
  5. 5Washington, DC3.2%
  6. 6Seattle, WA2.7%
  7. 7Denver, CO2%
  8. 8Austin, TX1.7%

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.