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  "schema_version": 1,
  "month": "2026-08",
  "month_label": "August 2026",
  "slug": "2026-08",
  "generated": "2026-08-31",
  "snapshot_date": "2026-08-31",
  "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, August 2026 — getreadyforagents.com/jobs/report/2026-08",
  "headline": "Agentic AI hiring up 7.7% in August 2026 — 2,120 open roles across 202 companies",
  "lede": "The Agentic AI Jobs Index for August 2026: 2,120 open agentic roles (66% of tracked AI hiring) across 202 companies. On the 195 companies tracked in both months, agentic openings moved from 1,967 to 2,118 (+7.7%).",
  "share_trend": "Agentic share of tracked AI roles moved from 63% to 66% across August 2026.",
  "totals": {
    "open_agentic_roles": 3233,
    "agentic_roles": 2120,
    "agentic_pct": 66,
    "companies_with_roles": 202,
    "companies_tracked": 251,
    "remote_pct": 10,
    "new_roles_this_month": 1379,
    "new_agentic_roles_this_month": 963
  },
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      "agentic_pct": 67,
      "companies": 130
    },
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      "agentic_pct": 62,
      "companies": 72
    }
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      "pct": 64
    },
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      "count": 732,
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      "remote": 80,
      "pct": 23
    },
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      "label": "Agent ops & infra",
      "count": 154,
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      "pct": 5
    },
    {
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      "label": "AI product",
      "count": 117,
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      "pct": 4
    },
    {
      "cat": "field_solutions",
      "label": "Field & solutions",
      "count": 56,
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    },
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      "label": "Evals & quality",
      "count": 41,
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    },
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      "cat": "ai_security",
      "label": "AI security",
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    },
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      "role": "Forward-deployed engineer",
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      "pct": 13
    },
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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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      "pct": 3
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      "role": "AI engineer",
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    {
      "role": "Applied AI / ML",
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    {
      "role": "ML engineer",
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    {
      "role": "Agent ops / infra engineer",
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      "pct": 2
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      "role": "AI researcher",
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      "pct": 2
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    {
      "role": "Data scientist",
      "count": 42,
      "pct": 2
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    {
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      "pct": 2
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      "role": "Forward-deployed engineer",
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      "role": "Applied AI / ML",
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    },
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    },
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    },
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    },
    {
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    },
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      "skill": "Cloud",
      "count": 922
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    {
      "skill": "RAG",
      "count": 601
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    {
      "skill": "Kubernetes",
      "count": 544
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    {
      "skill": "MCP",
      "count": 506
    },
    {
      "skill": "TypeScript",
      "count": 469
    },
    {
      "skill": "LangChain",
      "count": 373
    },
    {
      "skill": "Multi-agent",
      "count": 366
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    {
      "skill": "Fine-tuning",
      "count": 349
    },
    {
      "skill": "LangGraph",
      "count": 308
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    {
      "skill": "Prompt engineering",
      "count": 291
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    {
      "skill": "Vector DB",
      "count": 282
    },
    {
      "skill": "Evals",
      "count": 276
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    {
      "skill": "Tool use",
      "count": 242
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    {
      "skill": "LLM APIs",
      "count": 179
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      "count": 1358
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    {
      "level": "senior",
      "count": 591
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    {
      "level": "staff+",
      "count": 523
    },
    {
      "level": "manager",
      "count": 514
    },
    {
      "level": "lead",
      "count": 179
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    {
      "level": "intern",
      "count": 43
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    {
      "level": "junior",
      "count": 25
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      "region": "Other / global",
      "count": 1571
    },
    {
      "region": "United States",
      "count": 1402
    },
    {
      "region": "Remote (unspecified)",
      "count": 113
    },
    {
      "region": "Australia & NZ",
      "count": 77
    },
    {
      "region": "Unspecified",
      "count": 70
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      "location": "San Francisco",
      "count": 264
    },
    {
      "location": "San Francisco, CA",
      "count": 91
    },
    {
      "location": "United States",
      "count": 45
    },
    {
      "location": "US, CA, Santa Clara",
      "count": 41
    },
    {
      "location": "New York City",
      "count": 36
    },
    {
      "location": "San Jose",
      "count": 36
    },
    {
      "location": "London, UK",
      "count": 35
    },
    {
      "location": "London",
      "count": 35
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      "date": "2026-08-03",
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    {
      "date": "2026-08-10",
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      "companies": 207
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    {
      "date": "2026-08-24",
      "open": 3215,
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      "companies": 205
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-31",
      "open": 3233,
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      "companies": 202
    }
  ],
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      },
      {
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      },
      {
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      },
      {
        "name": "ElevenLabs",
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        "then": 23,
        "delta": 15
      },
      {
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        "delta": 14
      },
      {
        "name": "MongoDB",
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        "then": 19,
        "delta": 14
      },
      {
        "name": "Salesforce",
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        "then": 123,
        "delta": 12
      },
      {
        "name": "Anthropic",
        "careers": "https://www.anthropic.com/careers",
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        "then": 39,
        "delta": 11
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        "name": "OpenAI",
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        "then": 103,
        "delta": -26
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      {
        "name": "Okta",
        "careers": "https://www.okta.com/company/careers",
        "now": 36,
        "then": 50,
        "delta": -14
      },
      {
        "name": "CVS Health",
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        "delta": -13
      },
      {
        "name": "Glean",
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        "delta": -12
      },
      {
        "name": "JLL",
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        "then": 21,
        "delta": -10
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    ],
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      "Medibank"
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        "label": "Agent engineering",
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        "then": 1947,
        "delta": 126
      },
      {
        "cat": "ai_ml_engineering",
        "label": "AI/ML engineering",
        "now": 732,
        "then": 776,
        "delta": -44
      },
      {
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        "label": "Field & solutions",
        "now": 56,
        "then": 74,
        "delta": -18
      },
      {
        "cat": "governance_risk",
        "label": "AI governance & risk",
        "now": 25,
        "then": 16,
        "delta": 9
      },
      {
        "cat": "evals_quality",
        "label": "Evals & quality",
        "now": 41,
        "then": 39,
        "delta": 2
      },
      {
        "cat": "ai_product",
        "label": "AI product",
        "now": 117,
        "then": 118,
        "delta": -1
      },
      {
        "cat": "agent_ops_infra",
        "label": "Agent ops & infra",
        "now": 154,
        "then": 154,
        "delta": 0
      },
      {
        "cat": "ai_security",
        "label": "AI security",
        "now": 35,
        "then": 35,
        "delta": 0
      }
    ]
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    "forward_deployed": {
      "count": 412,
      "leaders": [
        {
          "name": "Databricks",
          "count": 100
        },
        {
          "name": "Palantir",
          "count": 75
        },
        {
          "name": "OpenAI",
          "count": 18
        }
      ]
    },
    "evals_remote": {
      "remote": 3,
      "count": 41
    },
    "security_remote": {
      "remote": 7,
      "count": 35
    },
    "junior_or_intern": 68,
    "mcp_skill": 506,
    "multi_agent_skill": 366
  },
  "quotables": [
    "2,120 open agentic AI roles across 202 companies in August 2026.",
    "66% 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 (412 openings, 19% of agentic demand).",
    "Databricks leads all employers with 140 agentic roles open.",
    "Only 10% of agentic roles are remote — this is overwhelmingly in-office hiring.",
    "The agent shift has reached the enterprise: Citi (67), Accenture (61), Walmart (43) are hiring agent builders directly.",
    "\"Forward-deployed engineer\" has gone mainstream: 412 open postings, led by Databricks (100), Palantir (75), OpenAI (18).",
    "\"Prompt engineer\" as a job title has all but vanished — just 1 of 3,233 postings mention \"prompt\". The work moved inside AI/ML engineering.",
    "Agent-native skills are now table stakes: MCP appears in 506 postings and multi-agent architecture in 366.",
    "Agentic hiring skews senior — only 68 of 2,120 agentic roles are junior or internships. Employers want people who can ship agents now.",
    "Agentic share of tracked AI roles moved from 63% to 66% across August 2026.",
    "Fastest-growing employer this month: Citi (+25 agentic roles vs 2026-07).",
    "Like-for-like agentic hiring rose 7.7% month-over-month across 195 consistently tracked companies."
  ]
}