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# US AI job postings naming generative AI as a skill more than doubled to 138,188 in 2025
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/generative-ai-skills-us-job-postings/
- Published: 2026-10-19T16:26:31.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:02:19.000Z
- Description: 138,188 US AI job postings named generative AI as a skill in 2025, 2.1 times 2024. Retrieval-augmented generation grew 4.4 times to 12,609 and prompt engineering 3.6 times to 22,227.
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, AI Jobs, Generative AI, AI in the US, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-jobs, #country-us, #topic-generative-ai

138,188

US AI job postings listing the skill generative AI in 2025, up from 65,557 in 2024

Postings listing generative AI

2025138,188

202465,557

## What the chart shows

The skill ‘generative AI’ appeared in 138,188 US AI job postings in 2025, up from 65,557 in 2024, an increase of 111%. Large language modelling came second at 38,526, about double its 2024 count.

Some smaller skills grew faster: retrieval-augmented generation rose 4.4 times to 12,609 postings and prompt engineering 3.6 times to 22,227\. Context engineering, listed in nine postings in 2024, appeared in 703.

## Key numbers

| Measure                              | Value   |
| ------------------------------------ | ------- |
| Generative AI, 2025                  | 138,188 |
| Generative AI, 2024                  | 65,557  |
| Large language modelling, 2025       | 38,526  |
| Prompt engineering, 2025             | 22,227  |
| Retrieval-augmented generation, 2025 | 12,609  |
| Context engineering, 2025            | 703     |

## How to read it

- Counts of US AI job postings listing each skill in Lightcast’s generative AI group; a posting can list several.
- The AI Index text attributes the 111% rise to ‘generative AI skills’; in the data it is the rise for the single skill named generative AI.

**Source:** [Lightcast](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#lightcast), 2025, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 4.4.5: *Generative AI 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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