Nearly a third of American tech job ads are now AI jobs — and in the Bay Area it is 57 percent

CBRE published its annual Scoring Tech Talent report on 18 August, covering 50 North American markets, and two numbers in it stand out. The first is a changing of the guard: New York became the largest tech talent market with 394,300 tech workers, ahead of the San Francisco Bay Area's 375,730 — the first time New York has led in the thirteen years of the analysis. The reason is less about New York winning than about who is doing the hiring: since 2022, finance, insurance and real estate added 90,530 tech jobs across the United States while the tech industry itself cut 21,262. The second number is the one that reshapes a career. AI roles were 31 percent of open US tech-talent jobs in June 2026, up from 11 percent at the mid-2022 peak. In the Bay Area that share went from 20 percent to 57 percent. The AI-skilled workforce across the US and Canada reached 751,000 in June, a 45 percent rise in a year, and four metros — the Bay Area, New York, Seattle and Washington DC — hold 37 percent of American AI specialists. Both New York and the Bay Area added more than 20,000 AI-specialty jobs after mid-2025, so New York's lead in headcount does not mean it has taken the AI crown.

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