What Principal Project Management Jobs Ask For
Across 1,267 open Principal Project Management postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are program-management, cloud, oracle.
Updated November 3, 2026
1,344 open Principal Project Management postings. The percentages below are measured over the 1,267 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| program-management | 53% |
| cloud | 39% |
| oracle | 38% |
| ai | 36% |
| pmp | 26% |
| stakeholder-management | 23% |
| automation | 22% |
| agile | 20% |
| networking | 16% |
| analytics | 13% |
| jira | 11% |
| scrum | 10% |
| business-development | 9% |
| corrective-action | 8% |
| microsoft-project | 8% |
| process-improvement | 7% |
| vendor-management | 7% |
| accessibility | 7% |
| strategic-planning | 7% |
| gpu | 7% |
| machine-learning | 7% |
| confluence | 6% |
| erp | 6% |
| agentic-ai | 6% |
| six-sigma | 5% |
| saas | 5% |
| azure | 5% |
| aws | 5% |
| risk-assessment | 5% |
| data-quality | 5% |
| root-cause-analysis | 4% |
| safe-agile | 4% |
| distributed-systems | 4% |
| powerbi | 4% |
| regulatory-compliance | 4% |
| sql | 4% |
| acceptance-criteria | 4% |
| generative-ai | 4% |
| ci-cd | 4% |
| sap | 4% |
"Mentioned in" counts postings that name the skill anywhere — including as a nice-to-have — so treat it as the ceiling, not the bar.
Browse 1,344 open Principal Project Management jobs →
Across all Project Management levels
Most Project Management postings never state a level. This wider list covers them too.
- pmp 23,310
- agile 16,488
- program-management 15,386
- ai 14,423
- microsoft-project 13,787
- stakeholder-management 13,367
- cloud 10,275
- business-development 10,266
- jira 9,758
- scrum 9,430
- automation 8,307
- corrective-action 7,544