Most In-Demand Legal Skills
The most in-demand skills for Legal roles right now are legal-research, regulatory-compliance, ai — ranked across 32389 open postings.
Updated October 8, 2026
| # | Skill | Open postings | 30-day growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | legal-research | 3,598 | +635 |
| 2 | regulatory-compliance | 3,357 | +378 |
| 3 | ai | 2,770 | +295 |
| 4 | risk-assessment | 2,588 | +635 |
| 5 | stakeholder-management | 1,554 | +212 |
| 6 | business-development | 1,317 | +197 |
| 7 | corrective-action | 1,272 | +370 |
| 8 | gdpr | 1,028 | +124 |
| 9 | automation | 919 | +151 |
| 10 | process-improvement | 893 | +158 |
| 11 | cloud | 822 | +92 |
| 12 | cybersecurity | 821 | +90 |
| 13 | saas | 775 | +56 |
| 14 | fintech | 681 | +41 |
| 15 | analytics | 670 | +72 |
| 16 | contract-drafting | 656 | +126 |
| 17 | contract-negotiation | 643 | +106 |
| 18 | contract-lifecycle-management | 501 | +75 |
| 19 | program-management | 496 | +94 |
| 20 | performance-management | 488 | +79 |
| 21 | accessibility | 481 | +79 |
| 22 | ccpa | 458 | +5 |
| 23 | hipaa | 455 | +61 |
| 24 | agile | 380 | +36 |
| 25 | dfars | 378 | +77 |
| 26 | sharepoint | 328 | +40 |
| 27 | itar | 323 | +57 |
| 28 | llm | 323 | +62 |
| 29 | data-governance | 322 | +27 |
| 30 | erp | 317 | +29 |
| 31 | sap | 315 | +58 |
| 32 | iso-27001 | 304 | +44 |
| 33 | employee-relations | 302 | +62 |
| 34 | machine-learning | 292 | -6 |
| 35 | data-analytics | 282 | +20 |
| 36 | ecommerce | 272 | +29 |
| 37 | uscis | 255 | +31 |
| 38 | nist | 254 | +29 |
| 39 | iso-13485 | 252 | +25 |
| 40 | root-cause-analysis | 247 | +70 |