Roles · 134,760 tracked
Engineering jobs in the AI transition
Every engineering role across the index's two cohorts — AI-native challengers vs the legacy SaaS incumbents they pressure — from real org-chart data, refreshed monthly.
AI-natives are growing engineering headcount faster than legacy SaaS — +57% vs +4% over 12 months.
Roles tracked
134,760
AI-native · 12mo
+57%
50 companies
Legacy SaaS · 12mo
+4%
49 companies
The gap
+53pts
AI-native minus legacy
AI-natives · biggest teams
Method: role counts and 12-month growth come from PDL's org-chart data (v25) per company; cohort figures are headcount-weighted so small-team swings don't distort the function's story. A company with no reported growth for this function contributes headcount but not growth. Snapshot frozen as of the July 2026 harvest.