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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

prompt engineering

402 live US technical postings name prompt engineering 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 402 postings naming prompt engineering that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer36.6%
  2. 2AI Engineer33.6%
  3. 3Data Scientist9.2%
  4. 4Machine Learning Engineer9.2%
  5. 5DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer3.2%
  6. 6Full-Stack Engineer3%
  7. 7Data Engineer2.5%
  8. 8Data Analyst1.2%

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 = 225
10th
$118k
25th
$155k
Median
$187k
75th
$229k
90th
$260k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA17.9%
  2. 2Remote17.2%
  3. 3New York, NY10.4%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA8.2%
  5. 5Washington, DC4.7%
  6. 6Seattle, WA2.5%
  7. 7Boston, MA1.5%
  8. 8Chicago, IL1.5%

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.