AI Skills Report
Top AI Skills in 2026
Ranked by real job data from 1,629 active job postings across 57 companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Databricks, and more. Updated weekly.
Last updated: May 2, 2026Source: gentic.news AI Jobs Radar
1,629
Job Postings Analyzed
57
Companies Tracked
30
Skills Identified
Weekly
Updated
Complete Skills Ranking
| Rank | Skill | Category | Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Agentic AI | Agentic & RAG | 57 |
| #2 | sensor fusion | Domain | 64 |
| #3 | Apache Spark | data | 34 |
| #4 | AI-Assisted Code Generation | Framework | 23 |
| #5 | MLOps | Infrastructure | 22 |
| #6 | Claude Code | Framework | 19 |
| #7 | PyTorch | Framework | 20 |
| #9 | computer vision | Domain | 28 |
| #11 | threat modeling | Safety & Governance | 14 |
| #12 | NLP | AI Technique | 29 |
| #13 | Recommendation Systems | AI Technique | 23 |
| #14 | evaluation frameworks | Agentic & RAG | 14 |
| #15 | On-Device ML | AI Technique | 25 |
| #16 | MLflow | Framework | 25 |
| #17 | Embodied AI Systems | Domain | 17 |
| #18 | Speech Recognition | Domain | 22 |
| #19 | Foundation Models | AI Technique | 12 |
| #20 | Security Incident Response (SIRT) | Safety & Governance | 12 |
| #21 | vLLM | Infrastructure | 12 |
| #22 | Kafka | data | 13 |
| #23 | Cursor | Framework | 10 |
| #24 | CUDA | Infrastructure | 14 |
| #25 | Grok | Framework | 26 |
| #26 | Claude | Framework | 14 |
| #27 | Large Language Models (LLMs) | AI Technique | 9 |
| #28 | Prompt Engineering | Agentic & RAG | 16 |
| #29 | BigQuery | data | 11 |
| #30 | AWS Bedrock | Infrastructure | 15 |
| #31 | DeepSpeed | Infrastructure | 11 |
| #32 | GPU Optimization | AI Technique | 11 |
Skills by Category
Agentic & RAG
data
- Apache Spark#3
- Kafka#22
- BigQuery#29
Framework
Infrastructure
- MLOps#5
- vLLM#21
- CUDA#24
- AWS Bedrock#30
- DeepSpeed#31
Safety & Governance
AI Technique
Top Companies Hiring for AI Skills
Anduril692 jobs
Databricks253 jobs
Anthropic182 jobs
CoreWeave153 jobs
Stripe118 jobs
Scale AI104 jobs
xAI104 jobs
OpenAI73 jobs
Datadog63 jobs
Wolt54 jobs
Methodology
This ranking is based on automated analysis of 1,629 active job postings from 57 AI and technology companies. Skills are extracted from job descriptions using NLP, then ranked by frequency of mention across all postings. Data is refreshed weekly. Only skills with significant representation across multiple companies are included in the ranking.
For detailed information about each skill — including courses, books, papers, and tutorials — visit the individual AI Jobs Radar skill pages.