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THE AI PULSE
AWS just crossed 1,000 job mentions.
Week of October 26, 2026 · 10,170 active AI roles · 2,764 with a usable posted pay range
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Jobs Tracked This Week
10,170
▲ +9.7% vs last week
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Cross-Field AI Requirement
16.9%
27,256 of 161,216 postings with full descriptions
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In the news this week | |
AI Adoption by Role
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Engineering leads the current cross-field sample at 45.5% (8,514 of 18,726 postings with full descriptions).
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Share of postings with full descriptions in each field (185,865 of 347,081 active postings have no collected description and are left out of both sides of every rate).
| Role |
AI Adoption |
AI-required / described postings |
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Engineering
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45.5% |
8,514 / 18,726 |
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Product
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37.0% |
1,949 / 5,262 |
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Data
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35.3% |
2,240 / 6,350 |
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Marketing
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21.4% |
1,956 / 9,145 |
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Legal
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17.7% |
374 / 2,117 |
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Finance
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15.6% |
754 / 4,843 |
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People
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14.4% |
375 / 2,612 |
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Sales
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11.9% |
3,903 / 32,819 |
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Operations
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10.6% |
1,112 / 10,454 |
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Salary Premium Spotlight
Historical benchmark, March 2026: AI Pulse advertised medians from 1,439 salary-disclosing AI jobs compared with May 2025 BLS occupational medians. This isn't a current-week pay change.
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Financial Analyst:
$85K without AI
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$125K with AI skills
(+47%)
Lawyer:
$130K without AI
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$185K with AI skills
(+42%)
HR Manager:
$82K without AI
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$115K with AI skills
(+40%)
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Skills in Demand
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Based on 3,748 of 10,170 AI postings with full descriptions. Change is in percentage points against last week's 3,409 described postings.
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| Skill |
Mentions |
vs Last (pts) |
| Python FALLING |
1,939 (51.7%) |
▼ -0.1 pts |
| AWS FALLING |
1,002 (26.7%) |
▼ -1.4 pts |
| Azure FALLING |
827 (22.1%) |
▼ -0.8 pts |
| RAG RISING |
788 (21.0%) |
▲ +0.2 pts |
| GCP FALLING |
595 (15.9%) |
▼ -0.2 pts |
| PyTorch FALLING |
506 (13.5%) |
▼ -0.8 pts |
| Claude RISING |
483 (12.9%) |
▲ +0.3 pts |
| Kubernetes RISING |
482 (12.9%) |
▲ +0.5 pts |
| Prompt Engineering |
421 (11.2%) |
─ +0.0 pts |
| TensorFlow |
378 (10.1%) |
─ +0.0 pts |
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How AI Is Showing Up in Product Roles
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561 AI + Product roles this week
Top Skills Requested
Share of the 213 of 561 roles with full descriptions.
● RAG 28 (13.1%)
● Azure 23 (10.8%)
● AWS 21 (9.9%)
● Claude 18 (8.5%)
● Python 14 (6.6%)
Median posted-pay midpoint: $185,000
(n=171 posted ranges); not clearly different from the $180,700 median of all 2,764 current AI postings with posted pay
Highest-Paying Product + AI Roles
Product Manager, Consumer Industries, Industry AI @ SAP IT Business Systeme
$198K-$420K
Principal Product Manager, Brand Expedia AI Experi @ Expedia Group
$224K-$358K
Executive, AI Solutions Product Leader - REMOTE @ NTT DATA
$150K-$350K
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Who's Hiring Most
Open roles per employer across this week's 10,170 AI postings. Pay is the average midpoint of posted ranges, shown when at least 5 postings carry one (n = postings with pay). Change is against last week's snapshot.
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The Bottom Line
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● Engineering leads the cross-field sample at 45.5% (8,514 of 18,726 postings with full descriptions)
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● March 2026 benchmark: Marketing Manager AI-skilled advertised median $135K vs $90K BLS baseline (+50%, 1,439 salary-disclosing AI jobs across the study)
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● Python leads skill demand: it appears in 51.7% of the 3,748 AI postings with full descriptions
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● OpenAI's share of described postings grew 8% week-over-week, fastest in the dataset
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● Median posted-pay midpoint for remote AI postings is 9% below onsite (n=336 remote, 2,411 onsite)
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Skill shares use the 3,748 of 10,170 active AI postings with full descriptions. Pay figures use the 2,764 current postings whose posted annual range tops out between $50K and $1M; medians are of range midpoints. Cross-field and historical compensation samples are labeled above.
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