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  "schema_version": 1,
  "month": "2026-07",
  "month_label": "July 2026",
  "slug": "2026-07",
  "generated": "2026-07-27",
  "snapshot_date": "2026-07-27",
  "mode": "steady_state",
  "source": "https://www.getreadyforagents.com/jobs",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0 — cite: Agentic Ready Jobs Index, Prefactor",
  "citation": "Agentic Ready Jobs Index, Prefactor, July 2026 — getreadyforagents.com/jobs/report/2026-07",
  "headline": "Agentic AI hiring down 2.8% in July 2026 — 1,996 open roles across 212 companies",
  "lede": "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%).",
  "share_trend": "Agentic share of tracked AI roles moved from 64% to 63% across July 2026.",
  "totals": {
    "open_agentic_roles": 3159,
    "agentic_roles": 1996,
    "agentic_pct": 63,
    "companies_with_roles": 212,
    "companies_tracked": 263,
    "remote_pct": 9,
    "new_roles_this_month": 1195,
    "new_agentic_roles_this_month": 827
  },
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      "roles": 2085,
      "agentic": 1418,
      "agentic_pct": 68,
      "companies": 138
    },
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      "agentic": 578,
      "agentic_pct": 54,
      "companies": 74
    }
  },
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      "label": "Agent engineering",
      "count": 1947,
      "companies": 174,
      "remote": 176,
      "pct": 62
    },
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      "cat": "ai_ml_engineering",
      "label": "AI/ML engineering",
      "count": 776,
      "companies": 138,
      "remote": 79,
      "pct": 25
    },
    {
      "cat": "agent_ops_infra",
      "label": "Agent ops & infra",
      "count": 154,
      "companies": 55,
      "remote": 10,
      "pct": 5
    },
    {
      "cat": "ai_product",
      "label": "AI product",
      "count": 118,
      "companies": 56,
      "remote": 11,
      "pct": 4
    },
    {
      "cat": "field_solutions",
      "label": "Field & solutions",
      "count": 74,
      "companies": 22,
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      "pct": 2
    },
    {
      "cat": "evals_quality",
      "label": "Evals & quality",
      "count": 39,
      "companies": 21,
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      "pct": 1
    },
    {
      "cat": "ai_security",
      "label": "AI security",
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      "pct": 1
    },
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      "role": "Forward-deployed engineer",
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      "role": "Software engineer",
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      "pct": 12
    },
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      "role": "Agent engineer",
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    {
      "role": "AI product manager",
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      "pct": 5
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    {
      "role": "AI security engineer",
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      "pct": 3
    },
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      "role": "AI engineer",
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      "pct": 3
    },
    {
      "role": "ML engineer",
      "count": 44,
      "pct": 2
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    {
      "role": "AI solutions architect",
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      "pct": 2
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    {
      "role": "AI researcher",
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      "pct": 2
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    {
      "role": "Agent ops / infra engineer",
      "count": 39,
      "pct": 2
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    {
      "role": "Solutions engineer",
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      "pct": 2
    },
    {
      "role": "Data scientist",
      "count": 36,
      "pct": 2
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      "count": 279
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    {
      "role": "Forward-deployed engineer",
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      "role": "Software engineer",
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      "role": "Agent engineer",
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      "role": "AI product manager",
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    {
      "role": "AI security engineer",
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    },
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    },
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    },
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    },
    {
      "name": "Adobe",
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    },
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    },
    {
      "name": "LangChain",
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    },
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    },
    {
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    {
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    }
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      "count": 926
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    {
      "skill": "RAG",
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    {
      "skill": "Kubernetes",
      "count": 497
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    {
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    {
      "skill": "TypeScript",
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    },
    {
      "skill": "LangChain",
      "count": 361
    },
    {
      "skill": "Fine-tuning",
      "count": 355
    },
    {
      "skill": "Multi-agent",
      "count": 345
    },
    {
      "skill": "Prompt engineering",
      "count": 274
    },
    {
      "skill": "Vector DB",
      "count": 260
    },
    {
      "skill": "Evals",
      "count": 251
    },
    {
      "skill": "LangGraph",
      "count": 246
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    {
      "skill": "Tool use",
      "count": 235
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    {
      "skill": "LLM APIs",
      "count": 118
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      "level": "mid",
      "count": 1314
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    {
      "level": "senior",
      "count": 582
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    {
      "level": "manager",
      "count": 505
    },
    {
      "level": "staff+",
      "count": 499
    },
    {
      "level": "lead",
      "count": 212
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    {
      "level": "intern",
      "count": 33
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    {
      "level": "junior",
      "count": 14
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      "region": "Other / global",
      "count": 1602
    },
    {
      "region": "United States",
      "count": 1326
    },
    {
      "region": "Remote (unspecified)",
      "count": 110
    },
    {
      "region": "Australia & NZ",
      "count": 63
    },
    {
      "region": "Unspecified",
      "count": 58
    }
  ],
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    {
      "location": "San Francisco",
      "count": 241
    },
    {
      "location": "San Francisco, CA",
      "count": 88
    },
    {
      "location": "London",
      "count": 41
    },
    {
      "location": "San Jose",
      "count": 39
    },
    {
      "location": "US, CA, Santa Clara",
      "count": 39
    },
    {
      "location": "New York City",
      "count": 37
    },
    {
      "location": "London, UK",
      "count": 36
    },
    {
      "location": "India - Hyderabad",
      "count": 34
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      "date": "2026-07-06",
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      "companies": 214
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    {
      "date": "2026-07-13",
      "open": 3002,
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      "companies": 214
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-07-20",
      "open": 3164,
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      "companies": 216
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-07-27",
      "open": 3159,
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      "companies": 212
    }
  ],
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        "delta": 37
      },
      {
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        "delta": 23
      },
      {
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      },
      {
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        "then": 32,
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      {
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        "delta": 12
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      {
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      },
      {
        "name": "Anthropic",
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        "then": 28,
        "delta": 11
      },
      {
        "name": "Scale AI",
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        "delta": 11
      }
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      {
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        "then": 74,
        "delta": -32
      },
      {
        "name": "Micron",
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        "then": 36,
        "delta": -29
      },
      {
        "name": "Cisco",
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        "then": 31,
        "delta": -29
      },
      {
        "name": "Visa",
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        "then": 23,
        "delta": -20
      },
      {
        "name": "Salesforce",
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        "now": 123,
        "then": 140,
        "delta": -17
      }
    ],
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      "Unilever",
      "Dovetail",
      "REA Group"
    ],
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      {
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        "label": "Agent engineering",
        "now": 1947,
        "then": 2024,
        "delta": -77
      },
      {
        "cat": "ai_ml_engineering",
        "label": "AI/ML engineering",
        "now": 776,
        "then": 763,
        "delta": 13
      },
      {
        "cat": "governance_risk",
        "label": "AI governance & risk",
        "now": 16,
        "then": 27,
        "delta": -11
      },
      {
        "cat": "agent_ops_infra",
        "label": "Agent ops & infra",
        "now": 154,
        "then": 163,
        "delta": -9
      },
      {
        "cat": "ai_security",
        "label": "AI security",
        "now": 35,
        "then": 27,
        "delta": 8
      },
      {
        "cat": "field_solutions",
        "label": "Field & solutions",
        "now": 74,
        "then": 71,
        "delta": 3
      },
      {
        "cat": "evals_quality",
        "label": "Evals & quality",
        "now": 39,
        "then": 37,
        "delta": 2
      },
      {
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        "label": "AI product",
        "now": 118,
        "then": 118,
        "delta": 0
      }
    ]
  },
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    "forward_deployed": {
      "count": 385,
      "leaders": [
        {
          "name": "Databricks",
          "count": 95
        },
        {
          "name": "Palantir",
          "count": 69
        },
        {
          "name": "OpenAI",
          "count": 40
        }
      ]
    },
    "evals_remote": {
      "remote": 1,
      "count": 39
    },
    "security_remote": {
      "remote": 10,
      "count": 35
    },
    "junior_or_intern": 47,
    "mcp_skill": 454,
    "multi_agent_skill": 345
  },
  "quotables": [
    "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."
  ]
}