Last updated: 2026-06-01
Snapshot: 2026-06-01 · Total jobs: 8,869 · Companies indexed: 520 · Salary-disclosed roles: 3,556 · Median: $215,000
Live data from aidevboard.com/api/v1/stats — free public API, no auth, refreshed daily across 560+ ATS sources.
| Rank | Tag | Open Roles | Avg Salary |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | research |
760 | $275,961 |
| 2 | search |
717 | $271,750 |
| 3 | reinforcement-learning |
591 | $270,450 |
| 4 | distributed-systems |
1,498 | $257,128 |
| 5 | infrastructure |
605 | $251,852 |
| 6 | fine-tuning |
827 | $250,610 |
| 7 | pytorch |
1,030 | $249,372 |
| 8 | machine-learning |
641 | $246,384 |
| 9 | llm |
2,636 | $245,362 |
| 10 | deep-learning |
796 | $244,433 |
| 11 | tensorflow |
470 | $242,510 |
| 12 | generative-ai |
1,815 | $239,453 |
| 13 | gpu |
533 | $236,595 |
| 14 | data-pipeline |
1,201 | $234,640 |
| 15 | security |
462 | $232,458 |
| 16 | agents |
2,589 | $230,812 |
| 17 | mlops |
614 | $226,325 |
| 18 | api-design |
472 | $224,017 |
| 19 | cloud |
1,815 | $221,258 |
| 20 | autonomous-vehicles |
608 | $219,261 |
Tags are extracted from job titles + descriptions by a rules-based parser. A role with multiple tags contributes its full advertised salary to each tag's average (no fractional weighting). Salaries are employer-advertised midpoints from public ATS feeds; US pay-transparency laws drive the disclosure rates so the dataset over-represents California, New York, Washington, and Colorado.
Of the full index, only the salary-disclosed subset contributes to averages. Re-aggregate from the paginated /api/v1/jobs endpoint if you need filters by location, experience level, or workplace.
- Live API: https://aidevboard.com/api/v1/stats (JSON, public)
- Research note: https://8bitconcepts.com/research/q2-2026-ai-compensation-by-skill.html
- Sibling dataset: Top AI Companies Hiring
- Sibling dataset: MCP Ecosystem Health
- Auto-regenerated: weekly via
tools/regenerate-compensation-by-skill.py - License: CC BY 4.0 — attribution to 8bitconcepts + aidevboard.com