LlamaIndex jobs in 2026 — demand, top roles hiring, and related skills
As of 2026-09-28, LlamaIndex appears in 913 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the past 90 days — AI Engineer has the most postings mentioning LlamaIndex, with demand down 21% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-09-28
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+Is LlamaIndex in demand in 2026?
Yes. LlamaIndex appears in 913 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-09-28, with demand down 21% vs the prior 4 weeks. AI Engineer accounts for the most postings mentioning LlamaIndex (17.6% of all postings mentioning LlamaIndex).
+What jobs require LlamaIndex?
According to the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-28, among roles with at least 20 postings, the highest shares mentioning LlamaIndex are Frontier Agents Engineer (40.9% of that role’s postings mention LlamaIndex), Generative AI Engineer (23.1% of that role’s postings mention LlamaIndex), Founding AI Engineer (22.7% of that role’s postings mention LlamaIndex).
+What skills are commonly paired with LlamaIndex?
Across job postings indexed by Skillenai (90 days ending 2026-09-28), LlamaIndex most often appears alongside LangChain, Python, prompt engineering, vector databases, AWS.
+Where is LlamaIndex most in demand?
As of 2026-09-28, the metro areas posting the most jobs requiring LlamaIndex are New York City, Bengaluru, San Francisco, Singapore, Pune, according to the Skillenai jobs index.
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Weekly job postings requiring LlamaIndex — last 90 days
Salary distribution
Box = 25th–75th percentile · tick = median · whisker = 10th–90th · USD, annualized
Roles most likely to require LlamaIndex
Among roles with at least 20 postings in the same period.
| Role | Postings mentioning skill | % of role postings mentioning skill |
|---|---|---|
| Frontier Agents Engineer | 9 | 40.9% |
| Generative AI Engineer | 12 | 23.1% |
| Founding AI Engineer | 5 | 22.7% |
| AI/ML Architect | 5 | 19.2% |
| Applied Value Engineer | 6 | 15.0% |
| GenAI Engineer | 6 | 13.6% |
| Data Science Consultant | 8 | 11.1% |
| AI Agent Engineer | 8 | 11.0% |
| AI/ML Engineer | 33 | 10.3% |
| AI Solution Engineer | 2 | 10.0% |
Roles with the most LlamaIndex postings
| Role | Postings mentioning skill | Share of skill postings |
|---|---|---|
| AI Engineer | 161 | 17.6% |
| Software Engineer | 104 | 11.4% |
| Forward Deployed Engineer | 53 | 5.8% |
| Data Scientist | 45 | 4.9% |
| AI/ML Engineer | 33 | 3.6% |
| ML Engineer | 20 | 2.2% |
| Applied AI Engineer | 19 | 2.1% |
| AI Software Engineer | 16 | 1.8% |
| AI Architect | 13 | 1.4% |
| Machine Learning Engineer | 13 | 1.4% |
Top metros hiring for LlamaIndex
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| New York City | 45 | 4.9% |
| Bengaluru | 35 | 3.8% |
| San Francisco | 28 | 3.1% |
| Singapore | 19 | 2.1% |
| Pune | 14 | 1.5% |
| Amsterdam | 13 | 1.4% |
| Seattle | 13 | 1.4% |
| London | 12 | 1.3% |
| Paris | 12 | 1.3% |
Skills commonly paired with LlamaIndex
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How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-28. Skills are resolved against the Skillenai canonical taxonomy, so the same entity is counted whether a posting writes 'Python', 'Python 3', or 'python'. Role prevalence divides postings mentioning LlamaIndex by all postings for each role in the same window, ranking roles with at least 20 postings. Role distribution divides each role’s LlamaIndex postings by all LlamaIndex postings, including postings without a role. Shares need not sum to 100% for the displayed roles. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-requested skills).
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