36K job postings: Claude Code passes Cursor, a third of 'agentic' roles are buzzword
vilnitskiy · reddit · 2026-11-07
A company indexing 3.4M public job postings analyzed all live postings mentioning AI agents (36K after removing consultancies), labeling what each role actually does:
Claude Code is now the most-requested coding agent (per 100K postings, Q4 2025 → Q3 2026):
- Claude Code: 35 → 268
- Cursor: 102 → 255
- GitHub Copilot: 38 → 143
By company count in Q3: 6,786 companies hiring for Claude Code vs 5,252 Cursor and 3,878 Copilot. It's in requirements, not perks.
Other findings:
- 35% of postings using "agentic" describe no agent work at all
- Live deployment rates: security 32%, IT ops 25%, compliance/legal 24%, customer service 21%; research and supply chain only 7%
- MCP is named by 9.6x as many companies as Google's A2A (5,820 vs 604); MCP-naming companies have live agents 35% of the time vs 20% overall
- LangGraph went from 0.37 to 0.68 companies per LangChain company in a year
- Copilot Studio shows up at 2.3x as many companies as Agentforce (1,585 vs 675), 89% of in-house builders aren't tech companies
- Only 4.8% of companies with live agents name any observability/eval tool, though 40% mention evals
Caveat: live numbers are an upper bound — some security roles are about securing agents, not running them.
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