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Agent Statistics<br>The state of AI agents, in numbers<br>A curated set of citable statistics on agent adoption, hiring, governance and ROI. The figures drawn from our own live indexes update on their own — and every stat copies as a ready-to-paste, attributed quote.<br>2,071 open agentic roles65% of AI hiring is agentic35 frameworks tracked<br>See our data →Industry figures
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Our own research<br>The numbers only we have<br>Computed live from the Get Ready For Agents indexes — updated automatically, so a quote from this page is never stale. These are the figures that put your name in the citation.<br>2,071 open agentic AI roles Across 216 companies actively hiring for them, from a tracked field of 261.<br>Get Ready For Agents · Jobs Index · July 2026 → Copy quote
65% of AI hiring is now agentic Nearly two-thirds of all tracked AI job postings specifically build or run agents.<br>Get Ready For Agents · Jobs Index · July 2026 → Copy quote
68% of frontier-lab roles are agentic At AI-native companies, agent work dominates the engineering hiring mix.<br>Get Ready For Agents · Jobs Index · July 2026 → Copy quote
40 agent governance & security roles Of 3,164 tracked postings, only 40 are for agent governance or security — the controls lag the building.<br>Get Ready For Agents · Jobs Index · July 2026 → Copy quote
9% of agentic roles are remote Agent teams are overwhelmingly being built in the office, not remotely.<br>Get Ready For Agents · Jobs Index · July 2026 → Copy quote
35 AI governance frameworks tracked Live across 16 countries and 4 regions in the Governance Index.<br>Get Ready For Agents · Governance Index · July 2026 → Copy quote
92 AI agent tools mapped Placed across four quadrants of the agent-building landscape in the Agent Index.<br>Get Ready For Agents · Agent Index · July 2026 → Copy quote
More ways to break it down<br>The same live index, sliced four ways. Every breakdown copies as a single attributed line.
AI hiring by discipline<br>Copy<br>Of 3,164 tracked AI postings — building roles dominate; the control functions barely register.<br>Agent engineering 2,029<br>AI / ML engineering 728<br>Agent ops & infra 146<br>AI product 114<br>Field & solutions 65<br>Evaluations & quality 42<br>AI security 29<br>Governance & risk 11
Who is hiring the most<br>Copy<br>Companies ranked by open agentic-role count.<br>Databricks 134<br>Salesforce 119<br>OpenAI 97<br>Palantir 68<br>Adobe 63<br>Citi 61<br>LangChain 57<br>Okta 52
The skills agents demand<br>Copy<br>Most-requested skills across agentic roles.<br>Python 1,025<br>Cloud 752<br>RAG 568<br>MCP 470<br>Kubernetes 395<br>LangChain 388<br>Multi-agent 365<br>TypeScript 329<br>Prompt engineering 290<br>LangGraph 277
Frontier labs vs. enterprise<br>Copy<br>Share of each cohort's AI roles that are specifically agentic.<br>Frontier AI labs 68%<br>Enterprise 61%
Australia vs. the USA<br>The same index, split by country. Australia's AI hiring skews more agentic than the United States.
🇦🇺 Australia<br>55 tracked AI roles<br>69% are agentic<br>28 companies hiring
Top employers DatabricksMaincodePalantirMongoDBCulture Amp
🇺🇸 United States<br>1,481 tracked AI roles<br>63% are agentic<br>154 companies hiring
Top employers DatabricksOpenAIAnthropicScale AILangChain
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The wider picture<br>The industry, from high-authority sources<br>A deliberately small, curated set — named analysts, research bodies and operator-reported production numbers only. Thin or unverifiable claims are left out on purpose, so everything here is safe to cite.
Adoption & the reality gap<br>Everyone is trying agents. Far fewer are scaling them.<br>The headline from every major 2025–26 survey is the same: experimentation is near-universal, but production and measurable value are still the exception.
40%+ Over 40% of agentic AI projects will be scrapped by the end of 2027, driven by escalating costs, unclear business value, and inadequate risk controls.<br>Gartner, 2025 ↗ Copy quote
62% → 23% 62% of organisations are at least experimenting with AI agents, but only 23% are actively scaling them.<br>McKinsey Global Survey, 2025 ↗ Copy quote
39% Just 39% of organisations deploying AI agents report a measurable impact on EBIT.<br>McKinsey Global Survey, 2025 ↗ Copy quote
Governance & oversight<br>The controls are lagging the deployments.<br>Agents are reaching production faster than the governance, evaluation, and oversight around them — the exact gap our own indexes were built to measure.
1 in 5 Only one in five organisations has a mature governance model for autonomous AI agents.<br>Deloitte — survey of 3,200+ leaders across 24 countries, 2025 ↗ Copy quote
89% vs 52% 89% of teams building agents have implemented observability, but only 52% have implemented evaluations — a 37-point gap between watching agents and testing them.<br>LangChain — State of AI Agents survey of 1,340...