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# Agentic AI overtook ChatGPT in 2025 as the most-cited AI agent skill in US AI job postings
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/ai-agent-skill-share-us-job-postings/
- Published: 2026-10-19T16:26:25.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:02:02.000Z
- Description: Agentic AI made up 18.9% of AI agent skill mentions in US AI job postings in 2025, up from 0.7%. ChatGPT fell from 25.3% to 16.4% and conversational AI from 24.8% to 8.0%.
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, AI Jobs, AI Agents, AI in the US, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-jobs, #country-us, #topic-ai-agents

18.9%

agentic AI's share of AI agent skill mentions in US AI job postings in 2025, up from 0.7% in 2024

Agentic AI's share

202518.9%

20240.7%

## What the chart shows

In 2024, ChatGPT (25.3%) and conversational AI (24.8%) accounted for half of all AI agent skill mentions in US AI job postings. In 2025 agentic AI led with 18.9%, up from 0.7%, followed by AI agents at 17.4%.

ChatGPT’s share fell to 16.4% and conversational AI’s to 8.0%; chatbot halved from 10.6% to 5.3%. The AI Index reads this as demand moving from familiarity with chat tools towards skills for building and running task-oriented systems.

## Key numbers

| Measure                 | Value  |
| ----------------------- | ------ |
| Agentic AI, 2025        | 18.90% |
| Agentic AI, 2024        | 0.69%  |
| ChatGPT, 2025           | 16.43% |
| ChatGPT, 2024           | 25.26% |
| Conversational AI, 2025 | 7.97%  |
| Conversational AI, 2024 | 24.78% |

## How to read it

- The AI Index labels the measure ‘skill share in AI job postings’ without defining the base. The ten shares add up to 91.5% in 2025 (85.5% in 2024), consistent with shares of all mentions of skills in Lightcast’s AI agents cluster, which has further skills not shown.
- Changes in the text are in percentage points.
- Counts for the same skills are in the [related chart](https://aiadoption.org/data/ai-agent-skills-us-job-postings/).

**Source:** [Lightcast](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#lightcast), 2025, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 4.4.8: *Share of AI agent skills in AI job postings in the United States, 2024 vs. 2025*. Chart and text by AI Adoption.  
Numbers checked against the published data on 20 October 2026.  
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