Monthly report · June 2026 · baseline
2,072 open agentic AI roles across 221 companies — the June 2026 baseline
The inaugural Agentic AI Jobs Index for June 2026: 2,072 open agentic roles (64% of 3,230 tracked AI roles) across 221 companies, screened on the full job description, not the title. June 2026 sets the baseline — month-over-month movement starts next month. Agentic share of tracked AI roles moved from 59% to 64% across June 2026.
Stats worth quoting
- 2,072 open agentic AI roles across 221 companies in June 2026.
- 64% of all tracked AI hiring is now specifically agentic — screened on the full job description, not the title.
- Forward-deployed engineer is the most in-demand agentic role (336 openings, 16% of agentic demand).
- Salesforce leads all employers with 140 agentic roles open.
- Only 8% of agentic roles are remote — this is overwhelmingly in-office hiring.
- The agent shift has reached the enterprise: Citi (74), Accenture (45), Walmart (42) are hiring agent builders directly.
- "Forward-deployed engineer" has gone mainstream: 336 open postings, led by Databricks (74), Palantir (58), OpenAI (32).
- "Prompt engineer" as a job title has all but vanished — just 3 of 3,230 postings mention "prompt". The work moved inside AI/ML engineering.
- Agent-native skills are now table stakes: MCP appears in 454 postings and multi-agent architecture in 369.
- Agentic hiring skews senior — only 52 of 2,072 agentic roles are junior or internships. Employers want people who can ship agents now.
- Agentic share of tracked AI roles moved from 59% to 64% across June 2026.
Most in-demand agentic roles
Plus 657 agentic roles in general / company-specific engineering titles.
Top employers by open agentic roles
Frontier vs traditional employers
How much of each cohort's AI hiring is specifically agentic — where the agent shift has already reached, and where it is still arriving.
Frontier AI companies
66%
of 1,955 AI roles are agentic · 140 companies
Traditional enterprises
62%
of 1,275 AI roles are agentic · 81 companies
Traditional employers hiring agent builders directly: Citi (74), Accenture (45), Walmart (42), Autodesk (39), Micron (36).
Role mix by category
Most-requested skills
Seniority mix
Use this report
Cite this: Agentic Ready Jobs Index, Prefactor, June 2026 — getreadyforagents.com/jobs/report/2026-06 · dataset CC BY 4.0
Frequently asked questions
How many agentic AI jobs were open in June 2026?
In June 2026 the Agentic Ready Jobs Index tracked 2,072 open agentic AI roles — 64% of 3,230 tracked AI roles — across 221 companies. Every posting is classified on its full job description, not the title.
Which companies are hiring the most AI agent engineers?
The largest agentic employers this month are Salesforce (140), Databricks (103), OpenAI (80), Citi (74), LangChain (63). The full company tracker lists every employer with live links to their careers pages.
Can I republish these numbers?
Yes. The full dataset and this report are published under CC BY 4.0 — cite "Agentic Ready Jobs Index, Prefactor" and link back to getreadyforagents.com/jobs. Machine-readable JSON and a press one-pager are linked at the foot of this report.
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