Most In-Demand HR Skills
The most in-demand skills for HR roles right now are employee-relations, performance-management, talent-management — ranked across 48215 open postings.
Updated October 6, 2026
| # | Skill | Open postings | 30-day growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | employee-relations | 10,865 | +1,556 |
| 2 | performance-management | 8,530 | +1,139 |
| 3 | talent-management | 3,768 | +486 |
| 4 | succession-planning | 3,578 | +399 |
| 5 | analytics | 2,975 | +315 |
| 6 | ai | 2,156 | +161 |
| 7 | corrective-action | 1,876 | +610 |
| 8 | process-improvement | 1,450 | +270 |
| 9 | stakeholder-management | 1,365 | +142 |
| 10 | automation | 1,137 | +135 |
| 11 | osha | 810 | +304 |
| 12 | regulatory-compliance | 805 | +104 |
| 13 | candidate-experience | 638 | +90 |
| 14 | people-analytics | 619 | +112 |
| 15 | employer-branding | 500 | +62 |
| 16 | accessibility | 440 | +62 |
| 17 | data-analytics | 436 | +44 |
| 18 | cloud | 428 | +31 |
| 19 | agile | 428 | +55 |
| 20 | statistics | 392 | +141 |
| 21 | strategic-planning | 383 | +23 |
| 22 | hipaa | 382 | +151 |
| 23 | sap | 336 | +16 |
| 24 | full-cycle-recruiting | 335 | +42 |
| 25 | networking | 332 | +93 |
| 26 | oracle | 297 | -27 |
| 27 | sharepoint | 281 | +56 |
| 28 | data-quality | 255 | +48 |
| 29 | vendor-management | 248 | +49 |
| 30 | ecommerce | 239 | -2 |
| 31 | gdpr | 223 | -2 |
| 32 | successfactors | 218 | +5 |
| 33 | saas | 211 | -17 |
| 34 | program-management | 207 | +17 |
| 35 | fintech | 202 | -4 |
| 36 | bamboohr | 187 | -4 |
| 37 | powerbi | 179 | +16 |
| 38 | adp | 169 | +33 |
| 39 | express | 168 | -20 |
| 40 | backbone | 167 | +6 |