AI Job Market Trends

Track how the AI job market is evolving — explore keyword trends, category volumes, in-demand skills, and salary movements over time.

Keyword Trends

Search keywords to compare their job listing volume over the past 12 months.

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Job Listing Volume Over Time

Monthly count of job listings matching each keyword

2,9931,4960
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LLM
data science
AI engineer

Top 10 Fastest Growing AI Skills

RLHF+172%
36 listings last month98 listings this month
prompt engineer+123%
133 listings last month296 listings this month
LlamaIndex+103%
33 listings last month67 listings this month
transformer+72%
76 listings last month131 listings this month
LangChain+51%
80 listings last month121 listings this month
fine-tuning+50%
126 listings last month189 listings this month
agentic+47%
330 listings last month485 listings this month
multimodal+43%
150 listings last month214 listings this month
LLM+40%
541 listings last month758 listings this month
NLP+38%
113 listings last month156 listings this month

Growth is measured month-over-month.

Top Skills Losing Momentum

dbt-27%
60 listings last month44 listings this month
edge AI-11%
137 listings last month122 listings this month
JAX-6%
70 listings last month66 listings this month
GPT-5%
86 listings last month82 listings this month
diffusion-4%
54 listings last month52 listings this month

Decline is measured month-over-month.

Job Volume by Category

Monthly job listing counts for popular AI/ML categories over the last 12 months.

AI Job Market Report —

Auto-generated from live job posting data

Key Highlights

  • AI job postings across tracked categories are up 24% month-over-month, with 930 listings in the latest month.
  • Computer Vision is the fastest growing category, up 40% from February 2026.
  • Data Engineer median salary rose 16% this month.
  • "LLM" is trending upward in job listings, with 40% more mentions than last month.

In March 2026, the AI job market grew by 24% compared to February 2026. Across the 8 major categories we track — including AI Engineering, Machine Learning, Data Science, and Generative AI — there were 930 job listings in the latest month, compared to 750 the month before. This data is drawn from real job postings aggregated across hundreds of companies hiring for AI and machine learning roles.

The most in-demand AI roles by volume this month are Data Scientist (348 listings), ML Engineer (249 listings), Data Engineer (137 listings). Computer Vision leads in growth with a 40% increase in postings.

Looking at salary trends, ML Engineer remains the highest-paid tracked role with a median annual salary of $221,500. Notable salary movements this month include Data Engineer (up 16%) and Data Analyst (down 14%). These figures are based on median salaries from job postings with published compensation data, converted to annual USD equivalents.

Among the keywords we track, the top movers this month are "LLM" (758 listings, +40%), "data science" (607 listings, +22%), "AI engineer" (147 listings, +17%). These trends reflect shifting employer demand and can signal which skills are gaining traction in the AI job market. Use the interactive keyword search above to explore trends for any skill or technology.

This report is automatically generated from live job posting data and updated every few hours. For the most current view, explore the interactive charts below or browse the latest AI job listings directly.

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