What Lead Sales Jobs Ask For
Across 3,322 open Lead Sales postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are business-development, ai, crm.
Updated October 17, 2026
10,501 open Lead Sales postings. The percentages below are measured over the 3,322 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| business-development | 37% |
| ai | 27% |
| crm | 25% |
| salesforce | 16% |
| go-to-market | 15% |
| analytics | 12% |
| saas | 11% |
| lead-generation | 11% |
| cloud | 11% |
| automation | 11% |
| stakeholder-management | 9% |
| pipeline-management | 9% |
| performance-management | 7% |
| hubspot | 7% |
| account-executive | 6% |
| pre-sales | 6% |
| networking | 5% |
| ecommerce | 5% |
| chatgpt | 5% |
| sales-enablement | 5% |
| agentic-ai | 4% |
| process-improvement | 4% |
| fintech | 4% |
| strategic-planning | 4% |
| cybersecurity | 3% |
| program-management | 3% |
| api | 3% |
| corrective-action | 3% |
| erp | 3% |
| sql | 3% |
| machine-learning | 3% |
| spark | 3% |
| linkedin-sales-navigator | 2% |
| data-quality | 2% |
| sap | 2% |
| agile | 2% |
| gdpr | 2% |
| data-science | 2% |
| powerbi | 2% |
| osha | 2% |
"Mentioned in" counts postings that name the skill anywhere — including as a nice-to-have — so treat it as the ceiling, not the bar.
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Across all Sales levels
Most Sales postings never state a level. This wider list covers them too.
- business-development 73,201
- crm 52,111
- salesforce 42,473
- ai 37,636
- account-executive 31,844
- saas 22,865
- lead-generation 21,709
- cloud 18,598
- networking 16,961
- go-to-market 16,528
- analytics 15,208
- pipeline-management 14,317