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Most In-Demand AI Engineering Skills

The most in-demand skills for AI Engineering roles right now are ai, llm, python — ranked across 164359 open postings.

Updated September 14, 2026

#SkillOpen postings30-day growth
1ai15,610-953
2llm10,448-491
3python10,219-225
4machine-learning8,629-393
5cloud7,982-471
6agentic-ai7,696-330
7api7,248-176
8generative-ai6,302-638
9rag6,255-215
10aws5,386-490
11azure4,933-243
12automation4,393-427
13ci-cd4,251-190
14prompt-engineering3,826-1
15gcp3,548-361
16observability3,353-287
17data-science3,278-91
18langchain3,269-164
19docker2,926-146
20kubernetes2,781-232
21openai2,756-240
22vector-databases2,735-259
23analytics2,663-134
24sql2,595+38
25mlops2,452-7
26pytorch2,376-167
27data-pipelines2,251-113
28langgraph2,198-212
29fine-tuning2,149-166
30typescript2,078-79
31mcp2,036-52
32data-engineering1,972+183
33devops1,863+39
34java1,786-36
35agile1,759-96
36embeddings1,732-48
37git1,701-56
38nlp1,691-50
39github1,620-123
40tensorflow1,613-108

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