Most In-Demand Management Skills
The most in-demand skills for Management roles right now are ai, performance-management, analytics — ranked across 395685 open postings.
Updated September 14, 2026
| # | Skill | Open postings | 30-day growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ai | 29,913 | +2,024 |
| 2 | performance-management | 26,040 | +6,481 |
| 3 | analytics | 23,952 | +3,629 |
| 4 | business-development | 22,639 | +5,993 |
| 5 | automation | 20,278 | +2,780 |
| 6 | stakeholder-management | 18,938 | +3,917 |
| 7 | cloud | 16,953 | +1,066 |
| 8 | process-improvement | 15,847 | +4,897 |
| 9 | regulatory-compliance | 14,526 | +5,547 |
| 10 | agile | 10,505 | +817 |
| 11 | strategic-planning | 10,118 | +2,720 |
| 12 | employee-relations | 9,657 | +2,976 |
| 13 | crm | 9,454 | +2,082 |
| 14 | erp | 9,339 | +2,436 |
| 15 | sap | 8,820 | +2,266 |
| 16 | sql | 8,120 | +945 |
| 17 | program-management | 7,519 | +1,442 |
| 18 | financial-reporting | 7,438 | +2,162 |
| 19 | ecommerce | 7,431 | +1,740 |
| 20 | powerbi | 7,271 | +1,330 |
| 21 | salesforce | 7,270 | +1,367 |
| 22 | python | 6,812 | +422 |
| 23 | networking | 6,629 | +1,077 |
| 24 | succession-planning | 6,498 | +1,927 |
| 25 | six-sigma | 6,420 | +1,591 |
| 26 | api | 6,326 | +244 |
| 27 | data-analytics | 6,105 | +822 |
| 28 | saas | 5,589 | +390 |
| 29 | aws | 5,585 | -189 |
| 30 | machine-learning | 5,500 | -38 |
| 31 | go-to-market | 5,419 | +570 |
| 32 | accessibility | 5,178 | +540 |
| 33 | vendor-management | 5,033 | +1,133 |
| 34 | oracle | 5,024 | +130 |
| 35 | data-quality | 4,762 | +885 |
| 36 | assembly | 4,660 | +568 |
| 37 | hipaa | 4,659 | +2,135 |
| 38 | azure | 4,602 | +329 |
| 39 | agentic-ai | 4,478 | -40 |
| 40 | cybersecurity | 4,378 | +772 |