# Agentic AI Jobs Index — July 2026

**Agentic AI hiring down 2.8% in July 2026 — 1,996 open roles across 212 companies**

The Agentic AI Jobs Index for July 2026: 1,996 open agentic roles (63% of tracked AI hiring) across 212 companies. On the 207 companies tracked in both months, agentic openings moved from 2,048 to 1,990 (-2.8%).

## Headline numbers

| Metric | July 2026 |
| --- | --- |
| Open agentic AI roles | 1,996 |
| Agentic share of tracked AI hiring | 63% |
| Companies with agentic roles | 212 |
| Companies tracked | 263 |
| Remote share | 9% |
| MoM change (like-for-like) | -2.8% |

## Stats worth quoting

- 1,996 open agentic AI roles across 212 companies in July 2026.
- 63% 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 (385 openings, 19% of agentic demand).
- Databricks leads all employers with 140 agentic roles open.
- Only 9% of agentic roles are remote — this is overwhelmingly in-office hiring.
- The agent shift has reached the enterprise: Accenture (47), Booz Allen (45), Citi (42) are hiring agent builders directly.
- "Forward-deployed engineer" has gone mainstream: 385 open postings, led by Databricks (95), Palantir (69), OpenAI (40).
- "Prompt engineer" as a job title has all but vanished — just 1 of 3,159 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 345.
- Agentic hiring skews senior — only 47 of 1,996 agentic roles are junior or internships. Employers want people who can ship agents now.
- Agentic share of tracked AI roles moved from 64% to 63% across July 2026.
- Fastest-growing employer this month: Databricks (+37 agentic roles vs 2026-06).
- Like-for-like agentic hiring fell 2.8% month-over-month across 207 consistently tracked companies.

## Most in-demand agentic roles

| Rank | Role | Open roles | Share of agentic demand |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Forward-deployed engineer | 385 | 19% |
| 2 | Software engineer | 243 | 12% |
| 3 | Agent engineer | 144 | 7% |
| 4 | AI product manager | 91 | 5% |
| 5 | AI security engineer | 64 | 3% |
| 6 | AI engineer | 57 | 3% |
| 7 | ML engineer | 44 | 2% |
| 8 | AI solutions architect | 43 | 2% |
| 9 | AI researcher | 41 | 2% |
| 10 | Agent ops / infra engineer | 39 | 2% |

## Top employers (by open agentic roles)

| Rank | Company | Agentic roles | Total AI roles |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Databricks | 140 | 180 |
| 2 | Salesforce | 123 | 123 |
| 3 | OpenAI | 103 | 130 |
| 4 | Palantir | 69 | 69 |
| 5 | Adobe | 64 | 98 |
| 6 | Okta | 50 | 50 |
| 7 | LangChain | 49 | 55 |
| 8 | Accenture | 47 | 58 |
| 9 | Scale AI | 46 | 73 |
| 10 | Booz Allen | 45 | 60 |

## Fastest-growing employers vs 2026-06

| Company | Change | Now | Prev |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Databricks | +37 | 140 | 103 |
| OpenAI | +23 | 103 | 80 |
| Grafana Labs | +19 | 30 | 11 |
| Booz Allen | +13 | 45 | 32 |
| Okta | +12 | 50 | 38 |
| AT&T | +12 | 12 | 0 |
| Anthropic | +11 | 39 | 28 |
| Scale AI | +11 | 46 | 35 |

## Role mix by category

| Category | Roles | Companies | Share |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Agent engineering | 1,947 | 174 | 62% |
| AI/ML engineering | 776 | 138 | 25% |
| Agent ops & infra | 154 | 55 | 5% |
| AI product | 118 | 56 | 4% |
| Field & solutions | 74 | 22 | 2% |
| Evals & quality | 39 | 21 | 1% |
| AI security | 35 | 19 | 1% |
| AI governance & risk | 16 | 11 | 1% |

## Most-requested skills

Python (1,463) · Cloud (926) · RAG (558) · Kubernetes (497) · MCP (454) · TypeScript (379) · LangChain (361) · Fine-tuning (355) · Multi-agent (345) · Prompt engineering (274) · Vector DB (260) · Evals (251)

## Methodology

The Agentic AI Jobs Index tracks two cohorts — frontier AI-native companies (Forbes AI 50 / CB Insights AI 100) and a curated panel of traditional enterprises — by fetching every role weekly from each company's public careers board (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, SmartRecruiters, Recruitee, Workday and others). Each posting is classified on its full job description, not the title: a role counts as agentic only on a hard signal (a named agent framework, an agent protocol such as MCP, or an explicit multi-agent architecture) or two distinct softer signals. Generic data and software roles are excluded.

**Citation:** Agentic Ready Jobs Index, Prefactor, July 2026 — getreadyforagents.com/jobs/report/2026-07

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