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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

generative ai

414 live US technical postings name generative ai 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 414 postings naming generative ai that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer30.7%
  2. 2AI Engineer19.1%
  3. 3Machine Learning Engineer16.9%
  4. 4Data Scientist16.2%
  5. 5Data Engineer5.6%
  6. 6DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer4.1%
  7. 7Full-Stack Engineer2.4%
  8. 8Backend Engineer1.7%

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 = 263
10th
$133k
25th
$165k
Median
$195k
75th
$226k
90th
$253k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote20.3%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA11.6%
  3. 3Silicon Valley, CA10.4%
  4. 4New York, NY6.5%
  5. 5Washington, DC6.5%
  6. 6Boston, MA3.4%
  7. 7Seattle, WA3.4%
  8. 8Dallas, TX1.4%

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.