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Python appears in 17.5% of 11,332 AI job postings this week.

Week of April 29, 2026 · 11,332 active roles · 60.9% salary disclosure

Jobs Tracked This Week
11,332
▼ -72.3% vs last week
AI Adoption Rate
12%
Across all functions

AI Adoption by Role

30% of Data & Analytics jobs now mention AI skills. Those roles pay 108% more.
Role AI Adoption Salary Premium
Data & Analytics 30% +108%
Product 29% +52%
Engineering 27% +58%
Marketing 16% +50%
Legal 13% +42%
Operations 12% +41%
Sales 11% +40%
Finance 7% +47%
HR 6% +40%

Salary Premium Spotlight

Marketing Manager: $90K without AI $135K with AI skills (+50%)

Financial Analyst: $85K without AI $125K with AI skills (+47%)

Lawyer: $130K without AI $185K with AI skills (+42%)

Skills in Demand

These are the AI skills showing up in job postings across all functions.
Skill Mentions vs Last
Python FALLING 1,987 (17.5%) ▼ -67.0%
AWS FALLING 1,182 (10.4%) ▼ -91.4%
Azure FALLING 903 (8.0%) ▼ -77.5%
RAG FALLING 816 (7.2%) ▼ -96.9%
GCP FALLING 681 (6.0%) ▼ -79.9%
PyTorch FALLING 680 (6.0%) ▼ -62.6%
Prompt Engineering FALLING 599 (5.3%) ▼ -73.9%
TensorFlow FALLING 566 (5.0%) ▼ -61.7%
Kubernetes FALLING 461 (4.1%) ▼ -75.7%
LangChain FALLING 452 (4.0%) ▼ -72.1%

This Week: How AI Is Showing Up in Sales Roles

AI adoption trends, skills employers want, and salary premiums for Sales professionals.

The Bottom Line

30% of Data & Analytics jobs now mention AI skills, highest among non-technical functions
Marketing Managers with AI skills earn 50% more: $90K baseline vs $135K with AI
Python leads skill demand with 1,987 mentions (17.5% of jobs)
Remote AI roles (2,001) pay 13% less than onsite
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