Agentic AI work means building systems that take actions rather than only producing text, and in this catalogue that work sits at Level 4: 1,628 of 27,031 live postings, or 6.0%. No employer field says "agentic", so the Level is the measurable proxy.
The number this article rests on: 1,628 live Level 4 postings, 6.0% of the catalogue. Measured September 2026.
The word itself is doing marketing work in most job adverts. Counting how many postings print it would measure how employers write, not what they hire for. What can be measured is whether the posting asks someone to build the system that acts, which is what the Level 4 band means, and which tools the posting names to do it.
What counts as an agentic AI job?
A posting is agentic when the person is expected to build or operate a system that plans and executes steps on its own. In this catalogue that maps to Level 4, which holds 1,628 of 27,031 live postings. Measured September 2026.
The rest of the catalogue uses AI rather than builds it. 20,230 postings score Level 1, where a model is a tool in an otherwise unchanged job, and the Levels page sets out where the boundaries fall and why they were drawn there.
Which tools do these postings name?
The three most frequently named tools across the catalogue are OpenAI on 1,054 postings, Claude on 956 postings, and Cursor on 743 postings, out of 300 tools recognised in total. 4,813 postings name at least one tool. Measured September 2026.
Tool names are the most reliable signal in an advert, because an employer who lists a framework has usually decided how the work gets done. Each named tool has its own page: OpenAI, Claude, and Cursor.
A posting that describes autonomous behaviour without naming a single tool is usually further from production than its language suggests.
What do agentic AI jobs pay?
Level 4 postings that publish a USD range have a median maximum of $310,500 on 830 listings, against $227,000 at Level 1 on 7,230 listings. That puts the top of the scale above the bottom of it. Measured September 2026.
Only 10,744 of 27,031 postings publish a USD range at all, so both medians rest on the minority of employers who print a number. The Level 4 listings are where the published ranges cluster.
Which categories hire for agent work?
Ranked by the share of their own postings that reach Level 4, the three categories that concentrate this work are Research at 72.5%, Data at 26.1%, and Software Engineering at 10.7%. Every other category of the catalogue sits below them on that measure. Measured September 2026.
- Research: 418 live postings, 72.5% at Level 4, 35.4% remote.
- Data: 1,043 live postings, 26.1% at Level 4, 55.0% remote.
- Software Engineering: 7,726 live postings, 10.7% at Level 4, 44.0% remote.
The concentration is the point. Agent work is not spread evenly across the market: it sits where the engineering already sits, and a search that ignores the category wastes most of its time on postings that use AI rather than build it.
Can you do agent work remotely?
13,173 of 27,031 live postings say remote, which is 48.7% of the catalogue. Agent work carries no site requirement of its own: the constraint is the data the system touches, not the desk the engineer sits at. Measured September 2026.
Where a posting stays on site, the reason is usually regulated data or hardware the employer will not let out of the building. That is worth reading for, because it tells you more about the system you would be building than the job title does. The remote listings break the share down by category.
Is this senior work?
12,548 of 27,031 live postings are tagged senior or lead, which is 46.4% of the catalogue, against 993 tagged junior or intern. Agent work concentrates in the senior half for the same reason it concentrates at Level 4. Measured September 2026.
Seniority is read from the posting, and 6,767 postings say nothing definite about it, so treat the split as a shape rather than a count. If you are starting out, the entry-level guide is the better place to begin.
The jobs right now
Live Level 4 postings, newest first, generated from the catalogue rather than written by hand.
