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Job market reports · Skill · August 2026

generative ai

218 live US technical postings name generative ai in August 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 218 postings naming generative ai that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer31.2%
  2. 2Machine Learning Engineer22.5%
  3. 3AI Engineer22%
  4. 4Data Scientist14.2%
  5. 5Data Engineer4.6%
  6. 6DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer2.3%
  7. 7Data Analyst1.8%
  8. 8Security Engineer1.4%

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.

Disclosed pay where generative ai is named
n = 42
10th
$130k
25th
$161k
Median
$205k
75th
$230k
90th
$275k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote15.1%
  2. 2Silicon Valley, CA15.1%
  3. 3San Francisco, CA12.8%
  4. 4New York, NY9.6%
  5. 5Washington, DC6.4%
  6. 6Seattle, WA2.8%
  7. 7Austin, TX1.8%
  8. 8Boston, MA1.4%

How we counted

457,191 live US postings read directly from 64,697 employers’ own careers pages in August 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.