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  "schema_version": 1,
  "month": "2026-10",
  "month_label": "October 2026",
  "slug": "2026-10",
  "generated": "2026-10-26",
  "snapshot_date": "2026-10-26",
  "mode": "steady_state",
  "source": "https://www.getreadyforagents.com/jobs",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0 — cite: Agentic AI Jobs Index, Get Ready for Agents",
  "citation": "Agentic AI Jobs Index, Get Ready for Agents, October 2026 — getreadyforagents.com/jobs/report/2026-10",
  "headline": "Agentic AI hiring up 0.6% in October 2026 — 2,401 open roles across 194 companies",
  "lede": "The Agentic AI Jobs Index for October 2026: 2,401 open agentic roles (66% of tracked AI hiring) across 194 companies. On the 184 companies tracked in both months, agentic openings moved from 2,325 to 2,340 (+0.6%).",
  "share_trend": "Agentic share of tracked AI roles moved from 69% to 66% across October 2026.",
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    "open_agentic_roles": 3617,
    "agentic_roles": 2401,
    "agentic_pct": 66,
    "companies_with_roles": 194,
    "companies_tracked": 255,
    "remote_pct": 9,
    "new_roles_this_month": 1369,
    "new_agentic_roles_this_month": 956
  },
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      "agentic_pct": 68,
      "companies": 122
    },
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      "agentic_pct": 63,
      "companies": 72
    }
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      "remote": 199,
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    },
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      "label": "AI/ML engineering",
      "count": 818,
      "companies": 132,
      "remote": 75,
      "pct": 23
    },
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      "label": "Agent ops & infra",
      "count": 157,
      "companies": 54,
      "remote": 11,
      "pct": 4
    },
    {
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      "label": "AI product",
      "count": 124,
      "companies": 62,
      "remote": 21,
      "pct": 3
    },
    {
      "cat": "field_solutions",
      "label": "Field & solutions",
      "count": 60,
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      "pct": 2
    },
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      "label": "Evals & quality",
      "count": 55,
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      "remote": 4,
      "pct": 2
    },
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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": 14
    },
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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
    },
    {
      "role": "AI solutions architect",
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      "pct": 3
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    {
      "role": "Applied AI / ML",
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      "role": "AI researcher",
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    {
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      "pct": 2
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      "pct": 2
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      "count": 649
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    {
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    {
      "skill": "TypeScript",
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      "skill": "LangChain",
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    {
      "skill": "Fine-tuning",
      "count": 400
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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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    {
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    {
      "skill": "LLM APIs",
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      "level": "staff+",
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    {
      "level": "manager",
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    {
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    {
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    {
      "region": "United States",
      "count": 1543
    },
    {
      "region": "Remote (unspecified)",
      "count": 106
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    {
      "region": "Australia & NZ",
      "count": 70
    },
    {
      "region": "Unspecified",
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    {
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    {
      "location": "New York City",
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    },
    {
      "location": "San Francisco, California",
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    },
    {
      "location": "London",
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    },
    {
      "location": "Dublin, Ireland",
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    },
    {
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    {
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      {
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      {
        "name": "Amgen",
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        "delta": -13
      },
      {
        "name": "Grafana Labs",
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      },
      {
        "name": "Scale AI",
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        "then": 51,
        "delta": -10
      }
    ],
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      "Unilever",
      "Lorikeet",
      "ANZ Banking Group",
      "CSL",
      "Cochlear",
      "Morgan Stanley",
      "General Motors"
    ],
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        "then": 2280,
        "delta": 65
      },
      {
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        "then": 107,
        "delta": 17
      },
      {
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        "delta": 9
      },
      {
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        "delta": 6
      },
      {
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        "now": 818,
        "then": 823,
        "delta": -5
      },
      {
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        "now": 21,
        "then": 16,
        "delta": 5
      },
      {
        "cat": "ai_security",
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        "now": 37,
        "then": 33,
        "delta": 4
      },
      {
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        "now": 60,
        "then": 59,
        "delta": 1
      }
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      "count": 424,
      "leaders": [
        {
          "name": "Databricks",
          "count": 94
        },
        {
          "name": "Palantir",
          "count": 73
        },
        {
          "name": "OpenAI",
          "count": 26
        }
      ]
    },
    "evals_remote": {
      "remote": 4,
      "count": 55
    },
    "security_remote": {
      "remote": 11,
      "count": 37
    },
    "junior_or_intern": 125,
    "mcp_skill": 649,
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  },
  "quotables": [
    "2,401 open agentic AI roles across 194 companies in October 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 (424 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: Cisco (80), Citi (68), Capital One (51) are hiring agent builders directly.",
    "\"Forward-deployed engineer\" has gone mainstream: 424 open postings, led by Databricks (94), Palantir (73), OpenAI (26).",
    "\"Prompt engineer\" as a job title has all but vanished — just 2 of 3,617 postings mention \"prompt\". The work moved inside AI/ML engineering.",
    "Agent-native skills are now table stakes: MCP appears in 649 postings and multi-agent architecture in 373.",
    "Agentic hiring skews senior — only 125 of 2,401 agentic roles are junior or internships. Employers want people who can ship agents now.",
    "Agentic share of tracked AI roles moved from 69% to 66% across October 2026.",
    "Fastest-growing employer this month: Cisco (+53 agentic roles vs 2026-09).",
    "Like-for-like agentic hiring rose 0.6% month-over-month across 184 consistently tracked companies."
  ]
}