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Job market reports · Skill · August 2026

prompt engineering

255 live US technical postings name prompt engineering 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 255 postings naming prompt engineering that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer40.8%
  2. 2AI Engineer32.9%
  3. 3Data Scientist9%
  4. 4Machine Learning Engineer6.3%
  5. 5DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer3.5%
  6. 6Full-Stack Engineer3.5%
  7. 7Data Analyst1.6%
  8. 8Data Engineer1.2%

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 = 36
10th
$113k
25th
$158k
Median
$180k
75th
$229k
90th
$300k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote17.6%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA15.3%
  3. 3New York, NY13.7%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA7.5%
  5. 5Seattle, WA3.9%
  6. 6Boston, MA3.1%
  7. 7Chicago, IL3.1%
  8. 8Washington, DC3.1%

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.