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

299,048 open jobs on the board name at least one skill. Here is what they ask for, as of November 3, 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%	54,139
2	Project management	15%	45,529
3	Onboarding	13%	37,565
4	Python	12%	34,501
5	Supply chain	10%	30,251
6	Audit	9.2%	27,615
7	Procurement	9.1%	27,201
8	Logistics	8.3%	24,704
9	Risk management	8%	23,931
10	Forecasting	7.9%	23,702
11	Agile	7.2%	21,596
12	AWS	7.2%	21,508
13	PowerPoint	7.1%	21,178
14	SQL	7%	21,056
15	CRM	6.6%	19,818
16	Talent acquisition	5.5%	16,565
17	Salesforce	5.5%	16,404
18	Lean	5.1%	15,205
19	Change management	4.9%	14,569
20	ERP	4.8%	14,224
21	Azure	4.6%	13,878
22	Machine learning	4.6%	13,691
23	Budgeting	4.6%	13,651
24	CI/CD	4.5%	13,596
25	SAP	4.2%	12,619

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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	1.22×	1.8%
2	Litigation	1.21×	2.9%
3	Accounts receivable	1.18×	1.5%
4	Employee relations	1.11×	1.9%
5	SAP	1.09×	4.6%
6	Microsoft teams	1.08×	0.4%
7	Sharepoint	1.07×	1.5%
8	HRIS	1.06×	1.1%
9	Procurement	1.05×	9.5%
10	Reconciliation	1.04×	2.7%
11	Treasury	1.04×	1.7%
12	Inventory management	1.02×	1.8%
13	Logistics	1.02×	8.4%
14	Brand strategy	1.02×	0.6%
15	FP&A	1.02×	1.6%

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	0.36
5	Data pipeline	0.36
6	Airflow	0.36
7	Snowflake	0.36
8	GAAP	0.35
9	Databricks	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	0.13
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	58%
7	Databricks	56%
8	Snowflake	55%
9	Data pipeline	55%
10	GraphQL	55%

Which AI skills employers ask for, and what they pay

299,048 of 573,032 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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