Statistics · updated 2026-10-12
AI jobs statistics (2026)
AI and machine learning roles are 4.2% of open roles in our index and 4.1% of roles posted in the last week. 28% of AI roles are remote. The median posted pay for an AI role is $203k a year. 24% of companies hiring now are AI-native.
Every figure comes from live job postings read daily from company careers pages and applicant tracking systems, and is recomputed every few hours. Figures are shares and medians of our index, which is a large sample of the market rather than all of it. Method.
How many AI jobs are remote?
28%
28% of open AI and machine learning roles are fully remote, against 29% for software engineering. The rest are on-site or hybrid.
| Function | Remote share |
|---|---|
| Software engineering | 29% |
| Sales & business development | 38% |
| Marketing & growth | 29% |
| Product management | 39% |
| AI & machine learning | 28% |
| Security | 26% |
| Data science & analytics | 26% |
| Data engineering | 27% |
| Design & research | 30% |
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What do AI jobs pay?
$203k
The median posted pay across AI and machine learning roles that list a range is $203k a year, against $164k for software engineering. Posted ranges usually describe base pay.
| Function | Median posted pay |
|---|---|
| Software engineering | $164k |
| Sales & business development | $145k |
| Marketing & growth | $145k |
| Product management | $192k |
| AI & machine learning | $203k |
| Security | $162k |
| Data science & analytics | $158k |
| Data engineering | $170k |
| Design & research | $176k |
Which AI roles pay the most?
Research Engineer
Among AI roles with enough postings that list pay, Research Engineer has the highest median at $263k a year at AI-native companies.
| Role | Median | Middle of the market |
|---|---|---|
| Research Engineer | $263k | $203k–$425k |
| LLM Engineer | $238k | $205k–$325k |
| Machine Learning Engineer | $238k | $197k–$325k |
| AI Engineer | $218k | $184k–$300k |
| AI Solutions Architect | $214k | $188k–$279k |
| Data Scientist | $208k | $170k–$333k |
| AI Product Manager | $207k | $185k–$280k |
| Forward-Deployed Engineer | $200k | $165k–$262k |
Which kinds of AI roles are companies hiring for?
Applied AI
Applied AI is the largest AI specialty at 44% of open AI roles. LLM engineering is growing fastest: its share of new AI postings runs 2.2 times its share of open ones.
| Specialty | Share of AI roles | New-posting momentum |
|---|---|---|
| Applied AI | 44% | 0.89× |
| Machine learning engineering | 41% | 1.01× |
| AI research | 4% | 0.65× |
| LLM engineering | 3% | 2.21× |
| Computer vision | 2% | 1.01× |
| MLOps | 1% | 1.08× |
What share of hiring companies are AI-native?
24%
24% of companies with open roles in our index are AI-native, meaning the model is their product or its core. See the list of AI-native companies hiring.
Which companies are hiring the most for AI roles?
Accenture
The companies with the most open AI and machine learning roles right now:
How to cite these figures
Cite as: landed, “AI jobs statistics (2026)”, www.landed.jobs/ai-jobs-statistics, updated 2026-10-12. Figures refresh every few hours; quote the date you read them. For the full analysis see the State of AI-native jobs report.
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