The state of AI agents, in numbers

Agent Statistics

The state of AI agents, in numbers

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.

2,071open agentic roles65%of AI hiring is agentic35frameworks tracked

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Our own research

The numbers only we have

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.

2,071 open agentic AI roles

Across 216 companies actively hiring for them, from a tracked field of 261.

Get Ready For Agents · Jobs Index · July 2026 →

65% of AI hiring is now agentic

Nearly two-thirds of all tracked AI job postings specifically build or run agents.

Get Ready For Agents · Jobs Index · July 2026 →

68% of frontier-lab roles are agentic

At AI-native companies, agent work dominates the engineering hiring mix.

Get Ready For Agents · Jobs Index · July 2026 →

40 agent governance & security roles

Of 3,164 tracked postings, only 40 are for agent governance or security — the controls lag the building.

Get Ready For Agents · Jobs Index · July 2026 →

9% of agentic roles are remote

Agent teams are overwhelmingly being built in the office, not remotely.

Get Ready For Agents · Jobs Index · July 2026 →

35 AI governance frameworks tracked

Live across 16 countries and 4 regions in the Governance Index.

Get Ready For Agents · Governance Index · July 2026 →

92 AI agent tools mapped

Placed across four quadrants of the agent-building landscape in the Agent Index.

Get Ready For Agents · Agent Index · July 2026 →

More ways to break it down

The same live index, sliced four ways. Every breakdown copies as a single attributed line.

AI hiring by discipline

Of 3,164 tracked AI postings — building roles dominate; the control functions barely register.

Agent engineering 2,029

AI / ML engineering 728

Agent ops & infra 146

AI product 114

Field & solutions 65

Evaluations & quality 42

AI security 29

Governance & risk 11

Who is hiring the most

Companies ranked by open agentic-role count.

Databricks 134

Salesforce 119

OpenAI 97

Palantir 68

Adobe 63

Citi 61

LangChain 57

Okta 52

The skills agents demand

Most-requested skills across agentic roles.

Python 1,025

Cloud 752

RAG 568

MCP 470

Kubernetes 395

LangChain 388

Multi-agent 365

TypeScript 329

Prompt engineering 290

LangGraph 277

Frontier labs vs. enterprise

Share of each cohort's AI roles that are specifically agentic.

Frontier AI labs 68%

Enterprise 61%

Australia vs. the USA

The same index, split by country. Australia's AI hiring skews more agentic than the United States.

🇦🇺 Australia

55tracked AI roles

69%are agentic

28companies hiring

Top employers

DatabricksMaincodePalantirMongoDBCulture Amp

🇺🇸 United States

1,481tracked AI roles

63%are agentic

154companies hiring

Top employers

DatabricksOpenAIAnthropicScale AILangChain

The wider picture

The industry, from high-authority sources

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

Everyone is trying agents. Far fewer are scaling them.

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.

Gartner, 2025 ↗

62% → 23%

62% of organisations are at least experimenting with AI agents, but only 23% are actively scaling them.

McKinsey Global Survey, 2025 ↗

39%

Just 39% of organisations deploying AI agents report a measurable impact on EBIT.

McKinsey Global Survey, 2025 ↗

Governance & oversight

The controls are lagging the deployments.

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.

Deloitte — survey of 3,200+ leaders across 24 countries, 2025 ↗

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.

LangChain — State of AI Agents survey of 1,340 practitioners ↗

ROI in production

Where agents are working, the numbers are large.

Operator-reported results from named enterprises running agents at scale. Each figure is self-reported by the company named — quote them as such.

2.3M

Klarna's AI assistant handled 2.3 million customer conversations in its first month, cutting average resolution time from 11 minutes to under 2.

Klarna, 2024 ↗

360,000

JPMorgan's COiN platform reviews 12,000 commercial credit agreements in seconds — work that previously consumed roughly 360,000 lawyer-hours a year.

JPMorgan Chase ↗

85%

Salesforce's Agentforce resolves around 85% of incoming customer service requests autonomously on Salesforce's own help portal.

Salesforce ↗

280,000

Morgan Stanley's DevGen.AI reviewed 9 million lines of legacy code, saving an estimated 280,000 developer-hours.

Morgan Stanley, 2025 ↗

Our own figures (Jobs, Governance and Agent indexes) are primary data published by Get Ready For Agents under CC BY 4.0. External figures are attributed to their original source — cite that source directly. Operator-reported results are self-reported by the company named.

Common questions

Agent statistics, answered.

The figures people ask us for most — with the current numbers baked in.

How many open AI agent jobs are there?

As of July 2026, the Get Ready For Agents Jobs Index tracks 2,071 open agentic AI roles across 216 companies — about 65% of all tracked AI hiring. The figures update automatically from live job postings.

What share of AI hiring is specifically for agents?

Around 65% of tracked AI job postings are specifically agentic — building or running AI agents rather than general machine-learning work. At frontier AI labs that rises to 68%.

How many AI governance frameworks are there?

The Get Ready For Agents Governance Index tracks 35 AI governance frameworks in force across 16 countries and 4 regions, updated monthly from official regulator and standards-body sources.

Can I cite these statistics?

Yes. Every figure on this page is dated and sourced. Our own index figures (Jobs, Governance, Agent) are published by Get Ready For Agents under CC BY 4.0 — quote them with attribution. External figures carry their original source; cite that source directly.

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