Most In-Demand HR Skills · freehire
The most in-demand skills for HR roles right now are employee-relations, performance-management, employee-engagement — ranked across 30074 open postings.
Updated July 23, 2026
| # | Skill | Open postings | 30-day growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | employee-relations | 5,716 | +2,640 |
| 2 | performance-management | 4,581 | +2,052 |
| 3 | employee-engagement | 3,001 | +1,347 |
| 4 | talent-management | 1,951 | +928 |
| 5 | succession-planning | 1,883 | +838 |
| 6 | analytics | 1,660 | +745 |
| 7 | ai | 1,490 | +526 |
| 8 | workday | 1,422 | +567 |
| 9 | compensation-and-benefits | 884 | +350 |
| 10 | stakeholder-management | 804 | +349 |
| 11 | process-improvement | 730 | +308 |
| 12 | automation | 676 | +253 |
| 13 | regulatory-compliance | 399 | +177 |
| 14 | candidate-experience | 340 | +115 |
| 15 | people-analytics | 320 | +119 |
| 16 | employer-branding | 308 | +147 |
| 17 | agile | 288 | +122 |
| 18 | cloud | 287 | +67 |
| 19 | data-analytics | 242 | +88 |
| 20 | oracle | 226 | +156 |
| 21 | strategic-planning | 223 | +97 |
| 22 | statistics | 208 | +114 |
| 23 | data-privacy | 191 | +68 |
| 24 | sap | 185 | +76 |
| 25 | saas | 179 | +58 |
| 26 | bamboohr | 152 | +19 |
| 27 | full-cycle-recruiting | 150 | +52 |
| 28 | fintech | 149 | +40 |
| 29 | ecommerce | 145 | +29 |
| 30 | backbone | 144 | +35 |
| 31 | sharepoint | 133 | +52 |
| 32 | express | 129 | +69 |
| 33 | agentic-ai | 128 | +47 |
| 34 | networking | 123 | +51 |
| 35 | program-management | 118 | +49 |
| 36 | vendor-management | 117 | +49 |
| 37 | data-quality | 102 | +34 |
| 38 | greenhouse | 101 | +26 |
| 39 | machine-learning | 97 | +4 |
| 40 | successfactors | 92 | +39 |