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'The hottest skill on Wall Street’: Demand for this AI ability jumped 1,721% as banks embrace agents
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Before artificial intelligence can take Wall Street jobs, it is first creating them.
Key facts
- Posts for AI-related roles at banks including JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Capital One surged 49% this year compared with 2025 to 139,819 listings, according to an analysis by enterprise hiring data
- References in job posts tied to "responsible AI" surged 657% this year, according to Draup, while those mentioning AI governance and risk management jumped 394% and 359%, respectively
- Roles tied to generative AI and agents typically pay more than tech roles elsewhere in finance, with generative AI managers paid a median base salary of about $190,000, according to Draup
- Governance-related skills now account for more than 16,000 references in the Draup data, nearly twice the roughly 8,400 tied to training, deploying and running models
Summary
Posts for AI-related roles at banks including JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Capital One surged 49% this year compared with 2025 to 139,819 listings, according to an analysis by enterprise hiring data firm Draup that was provided exclusively to CNBC. The fastest-growing area is a cluster of skills involving AI agents, according to Draup, which culls data from public job posts and platforms including LinkedIn. "This is arguably the hottest skill on Wall Street," Draup CEO Vijay Swaminathan said in an interview. The job listings show that Wall Street banks are moving beyond chatbots to the next phase of their AI strategy, one that has implications for executives, employees and shareholders.