Skills employers ask for most, by industry, function, state and seniority

302,864 open jobs on the board name at least one skill. Here is what they ask for, as of November 9, 2026.

Skills named in the most jobs

Share of open jobs that name the skill. A skill is counted once per job, from the job's full text.

Skills named in the most open jobs
#	Skill	Share of jobs	Open jobs
1	Excel	18%	54,767
2	Project management	15%	46,105
3	Onboarding	13%	37,887
4	Python	12%	35,042
5	Supply chain	10%	30,499
6	Audit	9.2%	27,925
7	Procurement	9.2%	27,892
8	Logistics	8.2%	24,875
9	Risk management	8%	24,207
10	Forecasting	7.9%	23,944
11	Agile	7.3%	22,062
12	PowerPoint	7.1%	21,584
13	AWS	7.1%	21,554
14	SQL	7%	21,256
15	CRM	6.6%	19,929
16	Talent acquisition	5.4%	16,390
17	Salesforce	5.4%	16,367
18	Lean	5.1%	15,389
19	Change management	4.8%	14,644
20	ERP	4.7%	14,253
21	Azure	4.6%	14,048
22	Machine learning	4.6%	13,911
23	CI/CD	4.5%	13,775
24	Budgeting	4.5%	13,738
25	SAP	4.2%	12,736

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Rising skills

Skills named more often in jobs posted in the last 30 days than across all open jobs. The figure is how many times as common they are in new jobs.

Rising skills
#	Skill	In new jobs vs. all jobs	Share of new jobs
1	Accounts payable	1.29×	1.8%
2	Litigation	1.28×	3.1%
3	Accounts receivable	1.24×	1.5%
4	Microsoft teams	1.12×	0.4%
5	Employee relations	1.10×	1.9%
6	HRIS	1.08×	1.1%
7	Procurement	1.06×	9.8%
8	Sharepoint	1.06×	1.5%
9	HTML	1.05×	1.7%
10	FP&A	1.05×	1.6%
11	Reconciliation	1.04×	2.7%
12	SAP	1.03×	4.3%
13	Logistics	1.01×	8.3%
14	Inventory management	1.00×	1.7%
15	Servicenow	1.00×	1%

Skills and AI

Mean AI use observed in the occupations of the jobs that ask for this skill (Anthropic Economic Index). It describes the work, not a forecast of job loss, and a low number means no use seen yet.

Most AI use seen in the work

Skills with the most observed AI use
#	Skill	Exposure
1	FP&A	0.41
2	ETL	0.39
3	Variance analysis	0.37
4	Financial modeling	0.37
5	Snowflake	0.36
6	Airflow	0.36
7	Data pipeline	0.36
8	Databricks	0.35
9	GAAP	0.35
10	A/b testing	0.34

Least AI use seen so far

Skills with the least observed AI use
#	Skill	Exposure
1	Revit	0.06
2	Autocad	0.07
3	Solidworks	0.08
4	Six Sigma	0.10
5	Mep	0.10
6	Teamcenter	0.12
7	Saas sales	0.13
8	Lean	0.13
9	Microsoft project	0.14
10	Contract negotiation	0.14

Asked for alongside an AI skill

Skills most often named together with an AI skill
#	Skill	Jobs that also ask for AI
1	Tensorflow	99%
2	Pytorch	99%
3	Langchain	98%
4	Machine learning	68%
5	GitHub	59%
6	TypeScript	59%
7	Databricks	57%
8	Data pipeline	55%
9	Snowflake	55%
10	GraphQL	54%

Which AI skills employers ask for, and what they pay

302,864 of 577,700 open jobs name a skill from our fixed list; jobs that name none are not counted, so shares are of jobs that name skills. Exposure is from the Anthropic Economic Index.

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