AI Skills Report

Top AI Skills in 2026

Ranked by real job data from 2,073 active job postings across 40 companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Databricks, and more. Updated weekly.

Last updated: March 18, 2026Source: gentic.news AI Jobs Radar

2,073

Job Postings Analyzed

Companies Tracked

Skills Identified

Weekly

Updated

Complete Skills Ranking

Rank	Skill	Category	Mentions
#1	Agentic AI	Agentic & RAG	105
#2	AI-Assisted Code Generation	AI Technique	15
#3	GPU Optimization	Infrastructure	23
#4	Evaluation Frameworks	AI Technique	22
#5	Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)	Agentic & RAG	19
#6	Post-Training	AI Technique	17
#7	Apache Spark	data	48
#8	Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF)	AI Technique	21
#9	Foundation Models	AI Technique	12
#10	Multimodal AI	AI Technique	12
#11	Multi-Agent Systems	Agentic & RAG	9
#12	Claude Code	Framework	9
#13	vLLM	Infrastructure	8
#14	AI Governance	Safety & Governance	5
#15	Multilingual AI Capabilities	Domain	7
#16	Synthetic Data Generation	AI Technique	7
#17	Large Language Models (LLMs)	AI Technique	6
#18	Vector Search	data	6
#19	SLAM	Domain	9
#20	Vector Databases	data	9
#21	AI System Security Architecture	Safety & Governance	5
#22	SGLang	Infrastructure	4
#23	Threat Modeling	Safety & Governance	4
#24	Anomaly Detection	AI Technique	4
#25	Claude	Framework	15
#26	MLOps	Infrastructure	6
#27	Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) Testing	Domain	13
#28	AI Analytics	AI Technique	5
#29	eBPF (Extended Berkeley Packet Filter)	Infrastructure	5
#30	Detection Engineering	Safety & Governance	5

Skills by Category

Agentic & RAG

AI Technique

Infrastructure

GPU Optimization#3
vLLM#13
SGLang#22
MLOps#26
eBPF (Extended Berkeley Packet Filter)#29

data

Framework

Claude Code#12
Claude#25

Safety & Governance

Domain

Top Companies Hiring for AI Skills

Anduril737 jobs

Databricks269 jobs

Anthropic206 jobs

Stripe119 jobs

Scale AI107 jobs

OpenAI84 jobs

Wolt74 jobs

xAI74 jobs

Datadog70 jobs

Doctolib46 jobs

Methodology

This ranking is based on automated analysis of 2,073 active job postings from 40 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.