Demand for "managing SI agents" skills at US banks is up 1,721% in a year
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Banks are moving from experiments to working SI agents, and a new in-demand profession is emerging — the person who manages them.
According to analytics firm Draup, the number of job postings requiring "agent orchestration" (configuring how agents interact, what data they can access and where a human decides) rose from 108 in 2025 to 1,967 in 2026. JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Capital One together posted 139,819 SI-related jobs, 49% more than a year earlier. The median base salary of agentic SI engineers is about $177 thousand, roughly $42 thousand higher than that of data scientists. This is one data provider's estimate, relayed by the outlet.
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