ML/AI Work Skills Demand Index

Name: ML/AI Work Skills Demand Index
Creator: ML/AI Work

As of 2026-07-26, 64% of AI vacancies ask for Machine Learning — the top line of the ML/AI Work Skills Demand Index, which ranks skills by their share of 47,834 active AI postings (ML/AI Work, dataset v2026.06).

Share of AI vacancies requiring the skilltop 15 · 47,834 postings

Machine Learning

64%

Python

55%

Large Language Models (LLMs)

46%

34%

33%

30%

29%

23%

23%

22%

22%

21%

17%

15%

15%

Machine Learning leads at 64% of AI vacancies; each skill links to its live posting list and salary slice.

Methodology

The denominator is all active AI-tier postings at the latest published snapshot (an honest base — one posting can require many skills, so shares do not sum to 100%). Skills are dictionary-matched on word boundaries against posting descriptions. See the full skill directory at /s and the methodology. For pay per skill, see top-paying skills in the salary explorer; for model/vendor mentions specifically, the Model Adoption Index.

Cite this

ML/AI Work, "ML/AI Work Skills Demand Index", dataset v2026.06, n=47834, as of 2026-07-26. https://mlai.work/research/skills-demand

https://mlai.work/research/skills-demand