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RAG appears in 74.3% of 1,737 AI job postings this week.

Week of March 30, 2026 · 1,737 active roles · 77.9% salary disclosure

Active AI Roles
1,737
─ flat vs last week
Median Salary
$212K
─ flat vs last week

Skills in Demand

RAG leads with 1,290 mentions (74.3% of all jobs).
Skill Mentions vs Last
RAG 1,290 (74.3%) ─ flat
Python 1,220 (70.2%) ─ flat
AWS 1,024 (59.0%) ─ flat
Rust 763 (43.9%) ─ flat
AI Agents 565 (32.5%) ─ flat
Azure 502 (28.9%) ─ flat
GCP 408 (23.5%) ─ flat
Prompt Engineering 365 (21.0%) ─ flat
PyTorch 352 (20.3%) ─ flat
Fine-tuning 342 (19.7%) ─ flat

Salary Snapshot

Highest paid: Research Engineer at $260,000 median (254 roles).
Role Median vs Last Roles
AI/ML Engineer $201,200 ─ flat 296
Data Scientist $215,300 ─ flat 82
Product Manager $190,000 ─ flat 9

Top Hiring Metros

Metro Roles Median
San Francisco 696 $235K
New York 528 $223K
Seattle 361 $232K
Remote 381 $176K
Los Angeles 372 $211K

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Company Roles Avg Salary

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The Bottom Line

RAG leads with 1,290 mentions (74.3% of jobs)
Research Engineer tops the salary chart at $260,000 median
Remote AI roles (1,156) pay 17% less than onsite
77.9% of AI job postings disclose salary ranges
Python is #2 at 1,220 mentions (70.2% of jobs)
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