What Principal Project Management Jobs Ask For
Across 934 open Principal Project Management postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are program-management, cloud, ai.
Updated September 19, 2026
1,064 open Principal Project Management postings. The percentages below are measured over the 934 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| program-management | 47% |
| cloud | 39% |
| ai | 36% |
| oracle | 35% |
| agile | 25% |
| pmp | 24% |
| stakeholder-management | 18% |
| automation | 16% |
| networking | 13% |
| jira | 13% |
| analytics | 12% |
| scrum | 10% |
| confluence | 9% |
| strategic-planning | 7% |
| machine-learning | 7% |
| saas | 7% |
| process-improvement | 7% |
| business-development | 6% |
| azure | 6% |
| accessibility | 6% |
| safe-agile | 6% |
| agentic-ai | 5% |
| six-sigma | 5% |
| vendor-management | 5% |
| aws | 5% |
| distributed-systems | 5% |
| generative-ai | 4% |
| devops | 4% |
| erp | 4% |
| sap | 4% |
| api | 4% |
| regulatory-compliance | 4% |
| ci-cd | 4% |
| cybersecurity | 3% |
| evm | 3% |
| go-to-market | 3% |
| data-quality | 3% |
| kanban | 3% |
| sql | 3% |
| sdlc | 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.
Browse 1,064 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 17,576
- agile 12,581
- program-management 12,529
- ai 11,126
- stakeholder-management 10,325
- business-development 7,655
- cloud 7,636
- jira 7,322
- scrum 6,906
- automation 6,134
- analytics 4,816
- process-improvement 4,707