Most In-Demand HR Skills
The most in-demand skills for HR roles right now are employee-relations, performance-management, talent-management — ranked across 44808 open postings.
Updated September 14, 2026
| # | Skill | Open postings | 30-day growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | employee-relations | 10,949 | +4,583 |
| 2 | performance-management | 7,997 | +3,018 |
| 3 | talent-management | 3,824 | +1,523 |
| 4 | succession-planning | 3,120 | +946 |
| 5 | analytics | 2,647 | +741 |
| 6 | ai | 1,912 | +161 |
| 7 | stakeholder-management | 1,227 | +303 |
| 8 | regulatory-compliance | 1,191 | +754 |
| 9 | process-improvement | 1,182 | +387 |
| 10 | automation | 946 | +156 |
| 11 | statistics | 716 | +506 |
| 12 | vendor-management | 705 | +575 |
| 13 | adp | 671 | +589 |
| 14 | candidate-experience | 566 | +175 |
| 15 | people-analytics | 529 | +151 |
| 16 | accounts-receivable | 515 | +499 |
| 17 | employer-branding | 453 | +160 |
| 18 | data-analytics | 384 | +92 |
| 19 | cloud | 382 | +14 |
| 20 | agile | 359 | +64 |
| 21 | accessibility | 354 | +68 |
| 22 | strategic-planning | 351 | +100 |
| 23 | full-cycle-recruiting | 315 | +112 |
| 24 | oracle | 306 | +56 |
| 25 | sap | 302 | +121 |
| 26 | networking | 245 | +110 |
| 27 | hipaa | 235 | +94 |
| 28 | sharepoint | 232 | +61 |
| 29 | ecommerce | 221 | +44 |
| 30 | successfactors | 208 | +111 |
| 31 | gdpr | 207 | +43 |
| 32 | saas | 206 | -11 |
| 33 | data-quality | 200 | +48 |
| 34 | fintech | 187 | +6 |
| 35 | program-management | 178 | +36 |
| 36 | express | 169 | +19 |
| 37 | bamboohr | 159 | +9 |
| 38 | powerbi | 159 | +59 |
| 39 | agentic-ai | 150 | +4 |
| 40 | backbone | 149 | +27 |