What Principal Project Management Jobs Ask For
Across 1,197 open Principal Project Management postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are program-management, ai, cloud.
Updated October 17, 2026
1,301 open Principal Project Management postings. The percentages below are measured over the 1,197 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| program-management | 53% |
| ai | 36% |
| cloud | 35% |
| oracle | 32% |
| pmp | 23% |
| agile | 23% |
| stakeholder-management | 22% |
| automation | 19% |
| analytics | 14% |
| networking | 14% |
| jira | 12% |
| scrum | 10% |
| confluence | 8% |
| process-improvement | 8% |
| strategic-planning | 7% |
| machine-learning | 7% |
| vendor-management | 7% |
| accessibility | 7% |
| corrective-action | 7% |
| business-development | 7% |
| azure | 6% |
| saas | 6% |
| erp | 6% |
| six-sigma | 6% |
| evm | 5% |
| agentic-ai | 5% |
| root-cause-analysis | 5% |
| risk-assessment | 5% |
| safe-agile | 5% |
| aws | 5% |
| regulatory-compliance | 5% |
| sap | 4% |
| data-quality | 4% |
| distributed-systems | 4% |
| devops | 4% |
| performance-management | 4% |
| api | 3% |
| ci-cd | 3% |
| cybersecurity | 3% |
| sql | 3% |
"Mentioned in" counts postings that name the skill anywhere — including as a nice-to-have — so treat it as the ceiling, not the bar.
Browse 1,301 open Principal Project Management jobs →
Across all Project Management levels
Most Project Management postings never state a level. This wider list covers them too.
- pmp 21,397
- program-management 15,435
- agile 14,756
- ai 13,357
- stakeholder-management 12,726
- business-development 9,854
- cloud 8,831
- jira 8,282
- automation 7,764
- scrum 7,633
- corrective-action 6,801
- process-improvement 5,793