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  "month": "2026-09",
  "month_label": "September 2026",
  "slug": "2026-09",
  "generated": "2026-09-28",
  "snapshot_date": "2026-09-28",
  "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, September 2026 — getreadyforagents.com/jobs/report/2026-09",
  "headline": "Agentic AI hiring up 9.1% in September 2026 — 2,331 open roles across 193 companies",
  "lede": "The Agentic AI Jobs Index for September 2026: 2,331 open agentic roles (66% of tracked AI hiring) across 193 companies. On the 188 companies tracked in both months, agentic openings moved from 2,109 to 2,300 (+9.1%).",
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    "agentic_pct": 66,
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    "companies_tracked": 254,
    "remote_pct": 9,
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    "new_agentic_roles_this_month": 923
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      "companies": 123
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      "pct": 23
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      "role": "ML engineer",
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      "pct": 2
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      "role": "AI security engineer",
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      "count": 594
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      "skill": "TypeScript",
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      "skill": "LangChain",
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    {
      "skill": "Fine-tuning",
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    {
      "skill": "Multi-agent",
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      "skill": "LangGraph",
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    {
      "skill": "Prompt engineering",
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    {
      "skill": "Vector DB",
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    {
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    {
      "skill": "Tool use",
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    {
      "skill": "LLM APIs",
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      "level": "senior",
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    {
      "level": "staff+",
      "count": 565
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      "level": "manager",
      "count": 563
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    {
      "level": "lead",
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    {
      "level": "intern",
      "count": 83
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      "count": 27
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      "count": 1820
    },
    {
      "region": "United States",
      "count": 1469
    },
    {
      "region": "Remote (unspecified)",
      "count": 109
    },
    {
      "region": "Australia & NZ",
      "count": 59
    },
    {
      "region": "Unspecified",
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      "location": "San Francisco",
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    {
      "location": "San Francisco, CA",
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    {
      "location": "San Francisco, California",
      "count": 49
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    {
      "location": "Dublin, Ireland",
      "count": 47
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    {
      "location": "London, UK",
      "count": 45
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    {
      "location": "USA - Remote",
      "count": 43
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    {
      "location": "United States",
      "count": 40
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    {
      "location": "US, CA, Santa Clara",
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      "date": "2026-09-14",
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      "companies": 196
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    {
      "date": "2026-09-21",
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      "companies": 197
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    {
      "date": "2026-09-28",
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        "name": "Accenture",
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        "delta": -15
      },
      {
        "name": "ElevenLabs",
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        "then": 38,
        "delta": -12
      },
      {
        "name": "Citi",
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      {
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      },
      {
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      "Cisco"
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        "then": 2073,
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      },
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        "then": 732,
        "delta": 91
      },
      {
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        "now": 107,
        "then": 117,
        "delta": -10
      },
      {
        "cat": "governance_risk",
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        "now": 16,
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        "delta": -9
      },
      {
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        "now": 49,
        "then": 41,
        "delta": 8
      },
      {
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        "now": 148,
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        "delta": -6
      },
      {
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        "label": "Field & solutions",
        "now": 59,
        "then": 56,
        "delta": 3
      },
      {
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        "now": 33,
        "then": 35,
        "delta": -2
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      "count": 417,
      "leaders": [
        {
          "name": "Databricks",
          "count": 96
        },
        {
          "name": "Palantir",
          "count": 81
        },
        {
          "name": "OpenAI",
          "count": 22
        }
      ]
    },
    "evals_remote": {
      "remote": 2,
      "count": 49
    },
    "security_remote": {
      "remote": 6,
      "count": 33
    },
    "junior_or_intern": 110,
    "mcp_skill": 588,
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  "quotables": [
    "2,331 open agentic AI roles across 193 companies in September 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 (417 openings, 18% of agentic demand).",
    "Salesforce leads all employers with 142 agentic roles open.",
    "Only 9% of agentic roles are remote — this is overwhelmingly in-office hiring.",
    "The agent shift has reached the enterprise: Citi (56), Accenture (46), Capital One (44) are hiring agent builders directly.",
    "\"Forward-deployed engineer\" has gone mainstream: 417 open postings, led by Databricks (96), Palantir (81), OpenAI (22).",
    "\"Prompt engineer\" as a job title has all but vanished — just 2 of 3,515 postings mention \"prompt\". The work moved inside AI/ML engineering.",
    "Agent-native skills are now table stakes: MCP appears in 588 postings and multi-agent architecture in 369.",
    "Agentic hiring skews senior — only 110 of 2,331 agentic roles are junior or internships. Employers want people who can ship agents now.",
    "Fastest-growing employer this month: Intercom (+101 agentic roles vs 2026-08).",
    "Like-for-like agentic hiring rose 9.1% month-over-month across 188 consistently tracked companies."
  ]
}