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What AI jobs don't require coding?

27 of the 44 roles we track ask for AI skills but hardly any coding: no coding skill appears in more than 15% of their postings. Together they cover 65% of all postings, led by Project Manager, Account Manager and Business Development Manager. What they ask for instead is AI Tools Literacy and Prompt Engineering.

of 44 roles ask for AI skills but hardly any coding
27
of all postings are in these roles
65%
their most requested AI skill
AI Tools Literacy

AI jobs that don't require coding

Roles where no coding skill appears in more than 15% of postings, grouped by field and ordered by how many postings there are.

Product & design

  • Product ManagerAsks for AI Tools Literacy and Prompt Engineering2,175 postings
  • Business AnalystAsks for AI Tools Literacy and Prompt Engineering1,482 postings
  • Product OwnerAsks for AI Tools Literacy and AI Product Management453 postings
  • Graphic DesignerAsks for AI Design Tools and Prompt Engineering438 postings
  • Product DesignerAsks for Prompt Engineering and AI Design Tools359 postings

Sales & customer success

Marketing

Management & operations

Finance, legal & risk

  • Legal CounselAsks for AI Contract Review and AI Regulatory Awareness1,368 postings
  • Finance ManagerAsks for AI Tools Literacy and Prompt Engineering1,310 postings
  • Financial AnalystAsks for AI Tools Literacy and Prompt Engineering848 postings
  • Risk ManagerAsks for AI Tools Literacy and AI Risk Awareness628 postings

The AI skills they ask for instead

The AI skills these roles ask for most, as a share of their postings. They are about using AI well, not building it.

  • AI Tools Literacy49%
  • Prompt Engineering32%
  • AI Sales Tools12%
  • AI Project Management Tools10%
  • AI Risk Awareness5%
  • AI Content Generation5%

Technical roles where coding is rarely asked for

These engineering and architecture roles also stay under the 15% line, but they expect technical depth: systems, security or architecture experience rather than writing code day to day.

AI roles that do require coding

For contrast: the roles where a coding skill is asked for in more than that share of postings, with the technical skill asked for most.

  • Software EngineerMost requested technical skill: AI Assisted Coding, in 65% of postings9,425 postings
  • Data EngineerMost requested technical skill: SQL, in 58% of postings1,644 postings
  • Data AnalystMost requested technical skill: SQL, in 63% of postings1,172 postings
  • Data ScientistMost requested technical skill: Python, in 85% of postings933 postings
  • AI EngineerMost requested technical skill: Python, in 62% of postings726 postings
  • DevOps EngineerMost requested technical skill: LLM Ops, in 92% of postings693 postings
  • Machine Learning EngineerMost requested technical skill: Python, in 64% of postings531 postings
  • Platform EngineerMost requested technical skill: LLM Ops, in 68% of postings491 postings
  • Data ArchitectMost requested technical skill: MLOps, in 17% of postings436 postings
  • Site Reliability EngineerMost requested technical skill: LLM Ops, in 71% of postings395 postings
  • Cloud EngineerMost requested technical skill: LLM Ops, in 53% of postings381 postings
  • Automation EngineerMost requested technical skill: Plc Programming, in 46% of postings335 postings
  • Research ScientistMost requested technical skill: Python, in 28% of postings309 postings

FAQ

What AI jobs don't require coding?

27 of the 44 roles we track ask for AI skills but hardly any coding: no coding skill appears in more than 15% of their postings. Together they cover 65% of all postings, led by Project Manager, Account Manager and Business Development Manager. What they ask for instead is AI Tools Literacy and Prompt Engineering.

Which AI skills should I learn if I don't code?

The AI skills these roles ask for most are AI Tools Literacy (49% of their postings), Prompt Engineering (32% of their postings) and AI Sales Tools (12% of their postings). None of them involves writing code.

Which AI jobs do require coding?

13 of the 44 roles do, led by Software Engineer (AI Assisted Coding in 65% of postings), Data Engineer (SQL in 58% of postings) and Data Analyst (SQL in 63% of postings).

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Built from 57,486 public job descriptions across 44 roles, published from March to September 2026 and deduplicated so that a job listed on several boards or by several agencies counts once. A role counts as asking for coding when any coding skill (a programming language, an ML framework, building on LLM APIs, MLOps, infrastructure as code or scripting) appears in more than 15% of its postings. Using AI tools, analysing data in a BI tool or automating a CRM does not count as coding. The rule reads each role's ten most requested skills; in every role the tenth is asked for in at most 15% of postings, so a coding skill outside the ten cannot cross the line. How we collect and deduplicate postings.