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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.
Across 216 companies actively hiring for them, from a tracked field of 261.
Nearly two-thirds of all tracked AI job postings specifically build or run agents.
At AI-native companies, agent work dominates the engineering hiring mix.
Of 3,164 tracked postings, only 40 are for agent governance or security — the controls lag the building.
Agent teams are overwhelmingly being built in the office, not remotely.
Live across 16 countries and 4 regions in the Governance Index.
Placed across four quadrants of the agent-building landscape in the Agent Index.
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.
Who is hiring the most
Companies ranked by open agentic-role count.
The skills agents demand
Most-requested skills across agentic roles.
Frontier labs vs. enterprise
Share of each cohort's AI roles that are specifically agentic.
Australia vs. the USA
The same index, split by country. Australia's AI hiring skews more agentic than the United States.
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.
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.
62% of organisations are at least experimenting with AI agents, but only 23% are actively scaling them.
Just 39% of organisations deploying AI agents report a measurable impact on EBIT.
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.
Only one in five organisations has a mature governance model for autonomous AI agents.
89% of teams building agents have implemented observability, but only 52% have implemented evaluations — a 37-point gap between watching agents and testing them.
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.
Klarna's AI assistant handled 2.3 million customer conversations in its first month, cutting average resolution time from 11 minutes to under 2.
JPMorgan's COiN platform reviews 12,000 commercial credit agreements in seconds — work that previously consumed roughly 360,000 lawyer-hours a year.
Salesforce's Agentforce resolves around 85% of incoming customer service requests autonomously on Salesforce's own help portal.
Morgan Stanley's DevGen.AI reviewed 9 million lines of legacy code, saving an estimated 280,000 developer-hours.
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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.