What Principal Legal Jobs Ask For
Across 188 open Principal Legal postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are regulatory-compliance, dfars, contract-negotiation.
Updated September 19, 2026
230 open Principal Legal postings. The percentages below are measured over the 188 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| regulatory-compliance | 26% |
| dfars | 24% |
| contract-negotiation | 17% |
| program-management | 14% |
| ai | 14% |
| business-development | 13% |
| acceptance-criteria | 11% |
| technical-writing | 11% |
| cybersecurity | 10% |
| iso-13485 | 10% |
| process-improvement | 10% |
| sap | 9% |
| cloud | 6% |
| automation | 6% |
| itar | 5% |
| gdpr | 5% |
| stakeholder-management | 5% |
| contract-drafting | 4% |
| oracle | 4% |
| sharepoint | 4% |
| analytics | 4% |
| ecommerce | 4% |
| saas | 4% |
| machine-learning | 3% |
| nist | 3% |
| accessibility | 3% |
| ccpa | 3% |
| cisco | 3% |
| erp | 3% |
| legal-research | 3% |
| typescript | 3% |
"Mentioned in" counts postings that name the skill anywhere — including as a nice-to-have — so treat it as the ceiling, not the bar.
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Across all Legal levels
Most Legal postings never state a level. This wider list covers them too.
- legal-research 3,362
- regulatory-compliance 3,145
- ai 2,576
- stakeholder-management 1,415
- business-development 1,230
- gdpr 940
- cloud 801
- automation 798
- cybersecurity 776
- process-improvement 758
- saas 743
- fintech 650