Skills employers ask for most in Sales
29,071 open jobs in Sales name at least one skill. These are the skills they name most.
Most-asked skills in Sales
Share of the 29,071 jobs in Sales that name the skill.
| # | Skill | Share of jobs | Open jobs |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CRM | 34% | 9,760 |
| 2 | Salesforce | 25% | 7,228 |
| 3 | Excel | 21% | 5,987 |
| 4 | Forecasting | 18% | 5,130 |
| 5 | Quota | 17% | 5,047 |
| 6 | Onboarding | 15% | 4,337 |
| 7 | Go-to-market | 11% | 3,329 |
| 8 | PowerPoint | 9.6% | 2,786 |
| 9 | Procurement | 9.1% | 2,643 |
| 10 | Enterprise sales | 8% | 2,336 |
| 11 | Pipeline management | 7.3% | 2,131 |
| 12 | Project management | 7.1% | 2,077 |
| 13 | Supply chain | 6.1% | 1,761 |
| 14 | Logistics | 6% | 1,739 |
| 15 | Workday | 4.4% | 1,283 |
| 16 | Risk management | 4.3% | 1,240 |
| 17 | Talent acquisition | 4.2% | 1,211 |
| 18 | Saas sales | 4% | 1,171 |
| 19 | Strategic planning | 3.9% | 1,143 |
| 20 | HubSpot | 3.2% | 932 |
| 21 | AWS | 3% | 873 |
| 22 | Audit | 2.9% | 849 |
| 23 | Agile | 2.7% | 782 |
| 24 | ERP | 2.5% | 722 |
| 25 | Treasury | 2% | 583 |
Same list for other functions
See where you stand in the market today
Your Market Reality Assessment: a plain-language read on your odds, jobs matched to you and a weekly plan. Free. No résumé needed.