Across nine countries, roughly one in six software and data job postings now include an AI or machine learning term in the title, according to a snapshot published by JobRise on October 16, 2026. The platform, which crawls company career sites and job boards, found 17,412 AI-related listings among 104,289 total software and data openings—about 16.7% of the developer hiring market. The data offers a reality check on whether AI has reshaped what employers actually want, as opposed to what headlines claim.
The United States led with 31,618 software roles and 14,554 data and AI positions open, representing nearly 20% of its combined tech listings carrying an AI keyword. India followed with 10,986 software and 4,865 data openings, though tech roles there make up 29.3% of all job listings in the country—the highest concentration JobRise tracked. Germany posted 15,250 software and 2,886 data roles, but that represents only 2% of its massive 888,202 total listings, mostly pulled from a national job board. The United Kingdom saw 20.4% of its tech roles mention AI, the highest share of any country, while Australia and the UAE both exceeded 24%. Among cities, Bengaluru topped the list with 4,578 combined software and data openings, followed by San Francisco with 3,338. Google held 2,641 listings across both categories, more than any other employer, with JPMorgan Chase second at 1,374 and NVIDIA third at 1,109.
The most common AI job titles were plain engineering positions: AI Engineer appeared 100 times in the U.S., Machine Learning Engineer 82 times, and Senior Machine Learning Engineer 69 times, the report notes. Only about 700 of the 17,412 AI-titled roles—roughly 4%—mentioned training, evaluation, or labeling work, the kind of task-based gigs some platforms post. Remote listings told a different story: half of the 7,566 remote software and data jobs carried an AI term, but one company, Prolific, accounted for 2,500 of those, mostly AI training tasks posted separately for each language and country with titles like "AI Trainer - Polish." Across employer career sites alone—excluding remote-first job boards—just 8.4% of dev and data listings specified remote work, with Canada highest at 16.9% and Singapore lowest at 1.6%.
The report advises job seekers to focus on markets where tech represents a large share of total openings, not just raw numbers, since India's 29% concentration far exceeds Germany's 2% despite similar posting volumes. It also suggests that candidates treat "AI engineer" as a standard engineering role rather than a separate career track, noting that a small project demonstrating API calls, output testing, and error handling proves relevant skill more effectively than listing "AI" on a résumé. The report recommends skipping remote-only job boards in favor of monitoring career pages at the top 20 employers, since more than nine in ten dev roles still name a physical location. JobRise updates its counts daily as positions open and close, and the platform offers free tools including an ATS résumé checker and a course on coding with AI, with the first module available at no cost. Employers appear to be hiring AI-literate engineers into existing workflows rather than creating a separate workforce, and candidates who can demonstrate practical model integration—regardless of job title—stand to benefit as that shift accelerates.