18.9%
agentic AI's share of AI agent skill mentions in US AI job postings in 2025, up from 0.7% in 2024

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

MeasureValue
Agentic AI, 202518.90%
Agentic AI, 20240.69%
ChatGPT, 202516.43%
ChatGPT, 202425.26%
Conversational AI, 20257.97%
Conversational AI, 202424.78%

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.
Source: 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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