What Principal Sales Jobs Ask For
Across 517 open Principal Sales postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are business-development, ai, cloud.
Updated October 15, 2026
610 open Principal Sales postings. The percentages below are measured over the 517 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| business-development | 44% |
| ai | 39% |
| cloud | 38% |
| crm | 22% |
| salesforce | 22% |
| go-to-market | 21% |
| analytics | 21% |
| account-executive | 17% |
| saas | 16% |
| aws | 14% |
| pre-sales | 11% |
| networking | 10% |
| automation | 10% |
| cybersecurity | 9% |
| pipeline-management | 9% |
| api | 7% |
| agentic-ai | 6% |
| machine-learning | 6% |
| stakeholder-management | 5% |
| strategic-planning | 5% |
| generative-ai | 5% |
| sales-cloud | 5% |
| tableau | 4% |
| azure | 4% |
| cloud-native | 4% |
| java | 4% |
| ajax | 4% |
| apex | 4% |
| eclipse | 4% |
| erp | 4% |
| soap | 4% |
| soapui | 4% |
| soql | 4% |
| solution-design | 4% |
| sales-engineering | 3% |
| succession-planning | 3% |
| ai-enablement | 3% |
| express | 3% |
| kubernetes | 3% |
| program-management | 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 Sales levels
Most Sales postings never state a level. This wider list covers them too.
- business-development 73,752
- crm 52,227
- salesforce 42,597
- ai 37,833
- account-executive 31,972
- saas 22,840
- lead-generation 21,767
- cloud 18,747
- networking 17,042
- go-to-market 16,606
- analytics 15,282
- pipeline-management 14,381