A comprehensive report on current AI engineering job demands, including top skills, salary ranges, and key hiring companies, enabling informed career planning or market analysis.
The agent queries the ai-dev-jobs-mcp server to retrieve live data on active job listings, including counts by skill (e.g., agents, LLM, cloud), average salaries, and top hiring companies. It cross-references this with the career guide content to identify patterns such as the premium for RAG skills or the demand for full-stack AI engineers. The agent synthesizes this data to provide actionable insights on which skills are most valuable and where the highest-paying opportunities lie.
- Category: Research and knowledge
- Effect: Read-only
- MCP servers: AI Dev Jobs MCP (https://koskamo.com/explore/ai-dev-jobs-mcp)
- Source: How to Get an AI Engineering Job in 2026 — Complete Guide | AI Dev Jobs (https://aidevboard.com/guides/ai-engineering-career)
- Source quote: "The AI engineering job market in 2026 is large, competitive, and changing fast. There are currently 9862 open positions across 551 companies, with an average salary of $234k ."
- Playbook page: https://koskamo.com/explore/use-cases/analyze-ai-engineering-job-market-trends
Prompt: Analyze the current AI engineering job market using the ai-dev-jobs-mcp server. Retrieve the top skills by number of open positions and their average salaries. Identify the top 5 companies hiring for AI engineers. Summarize the key trends regarding remote vs. on-site compensation and the most in-demand technical skills like agents and LLMs.