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Week of 9 Nov - 15 Nov 2026

24% of new engineering leadership roles mention AI coding tools

For engineering leaders: which AI tools EM, Staff, Director and VP roles ask for, who asks, and the exact words from the job postings of 1,294 tracked companies.

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EU index

19%

of 1,160 open engineering leadership roles in Europe mention AI coding tools

At 357 companies · 28 roles mention AI governance or the EU AI Act

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Top European countries by open leadership roles
CountryOpen rolesMention AI
United Kingdom29316%
Germany24321%
France937.5%
Poland7439%
Spain7330%
Remote, Europe-wide537.5%

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14%

of 11,310 open engineering roles mention AI coding tools

Leadership and individual contributors

15%

Leadership (2,333 roles)

13%

Individual contributors (8,977 roles)

Share of open roles mentioning AI coding tools, by role family
Role familyShare mentioning AI toolsMention AIOpen roles
Engineering leadership15%3502,333
Software (general)12%3552,864
Data / ML engineering12%1731,503
Backend16%2071,314
DevOps / SRE / Platform9.1%1031,133
Full stack23%145638
Security engineering9.1%51559
QA / Test / SDET11%43387
Mobile16%47290
Frontend18%53289

Open roles at the companies we track. Individual-contributor roles: backend, frontend, full stack, mobile, QA/SDET, DevOps/SRE/platform, data/ML and security engineering.

What leaders are asked for

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Tool, share of 30-day mentions7d30d
  1. Agentic workflows41119
  2. AI-assisted development2083
  3. Guardrails1047
  4. RAG1038
  5. Agentic coding637
  6. MCP (Model Context Protocol)1236
  7. Claude Code935
  8. Evals / LLM evaluation1134
  9. Cursor831
  10. Multi-agent systems928
  11. GitHub Copilot1127
  12. Prompt / context engineering1027
  13. AI / agent harness927
  14. LLMOps / MLOps518
  15. Claude517
  16. Vector databases513
  17. Fine-tuning / LoRA / PEFT313
  18. LangGraph612
  19. Responsible AI412
  20. OpenAI39
  21. ChatGPT / GPT models38
  22. AI security47
  23. LangChain37
  24. Embeddings17
  25. OpenAI Codex07
  26. AI governance35
  27. AI code review25
  28. EU AI Act24
  29. Hugging Face23
  30. Open / local models13
  31. LLM observability13
  32. Amazon Bedrock13
  33. Anthropic13
  34. CrewAI13
  35. AutoGen / AG213
  36. vLLM02
  37. Gemini02
  38. OpenCode11
  39. Windsurf11
  40. Milvus11
  41. Local / open-weight LLMs11
  42. AI policy11
  43. Amazon SageMaker11
  44. Spec-driven development01
  45. Lovable01
  46. DSPy01
  47. v001

Leadership postings that mention each tool, by published date.

Straight from the postings

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…and ways of working that raise the quality and productivity of ASOS Engineering. Evaluate and introduce AI-assisted development tools, with clear guidance on security, code review and quality. Define and champion good engineering…
ASOS, Principal Software Engineer
…core of what we do - from building the world's first domain-specific AI peer programmer for insurance (think GitHub Copilot with a PhD in actuarial science) to shaping agentic workflows that reinvent how this industry operates. What…
Hyperexponential, Staff Product Engineer
…and production-grade. Lead by example in modern engineering practices, including the responsible use of AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery and learning, while maintaining deep understanding, accountability, and…
Ebury, Staff Engineer (Credit & Underwriting)
…and Elixir services — from RAG pipelines to a Claude-powered edge-native product. GitHub, CircleCI, Datadog. AI-assisted development is first-class, not bolted on. You'll lead full-stack engineers (with Python/Elixir specialists), report to…
Multiverse, AI Engineering Manager

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Data refreshed 12 Nov 2026. How this is measured.