AI Agents
Applications in which a language model plans, calls tools and completes tasks on its own.
- 19.0%
- of core AI postings mention it
- 670
- postings
- 422
- companies
History starts on September 11, 2026. Movement needs a comparable later edition at least 30 days on.
Where it is mentioned most
Each row divides by that role's postings in this edition, highest share first.
Postings in 10 role families mention AI Agents in this edition.
In 2 of the 8 role families with a page of their own, at least one posting in five mentions AI Agents: LLM / NLP Engineer 40.0%, AI Engineer 24.9%.
AI Agents is more concentrated in LLM / NLP Engineer postings (40.0%) than across all core AI postings (19.0%): at least twice the overall share.
AI Agents is in LLM applications: a framework, LLM or domain signal. Read it together with the foundation and production skills that appear with it below.
How the readings are made: "more concentrated than overall" means that in a role family with a page of its own, at least 10 postings mention the skill and its share is at least 2 times its share of all core AI postings; "common" means at least 20% of a role's postings mention it. They describe the postings open in this edition, not a trend.
- LLM / NLP Engineer40.0%70 of 175 postings · at least twice overall
- MLOps / Platform Engineer34.2%13 of 38 postings · Sample below the page threshold; not read
- AI Engineer24.9%433 of 1,741 postings
- AI Researcher16.7%10 of 60 postings · Sample below the page threshold; not read
- 39 of 305 postings
- Data Scientist12.6%19 of 151 postings
- 12 of 225 postings
- 4 of 113 postings
- 4 of 123 postings
- 9 of 321 postings
Skills that appear with it
Each share divides by the postings that mention AI Agents: how many of them also mention each skill, grouped into three lenses.
Foundations and problem-solving
Categories: Languages, Machine learning, Data engineering, Databases, Methods and process
- Python73.7%Languages · 494 postings
- System Architecture51.5%Methods and process · 345 postings
- REST API30.8%Methods and process · 206 postings
- Machine Learning30.3%Machine learning · 203 postings
Production and delivery
Categories: DevOps, Cloud, Tools
Framework, LLM and domain signals
Categories: Frameworks, LLM applications, Domain knowledge, Office software
- LLM73.7%LLM applications · 494 postings
- RAG57.6%LLM applications · 386 postings
- Generative AI42.7%LLM applications · 286 postings
- Prompt Engineering35.7%LLM applications · 239 postings
- Claude30.0%LLM applications · 201 postings
- ChatGPT27.9%LLM applications · 187 postings
Industries and places
Share of this skill's postings.
- Software & Internet27340.8%
- Electronics & Hardware12017.9%
- Finance & Insurance558.2%
- Semiconductor558.2%
- Telecom, Media & Digital Content334.9%
- Wholesale, Retail & E-commerce314.6%
- Professional Services284.2%
- Manufacturing274.0%
- Healthcare & Biotech233.4%
- Consulting & Marketing Services111.6%
- Construction & Real Estate60.9%
- Hospitality & Consumer Services40.6%
- Taipei36354.2%
- New Taipei10816.1%
- Taichung477.0%
- Hsinchu County375.5%
- Taoyuan345.1%
- Hsinchu City314.6%
- Kaohsiung172.5%
- Tainan101.5%
- Changhua60.9%
- Miaoli50.8%
- Yunlin30.4%
- Hualien20.3%
Where this number is read from
Of the 670 postings, how many were found through the employer's own skill tags, the title, and the job description. A posting can carry more than one kind of evidence, so the three add up to more than the posting count.
- Employer's skill tags0
- Job title85
- Job description663