Most In-Demand HR Skills
The most in-demand skills for HR roles right now are employee-relations, performance-management, talent-management — ranked across 55304 open postings.
Updated October 17, 2026
| # | Skill | Open postings | 30-day growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | employee-relations | 12,521 | +2,649 |
| 2 | performance-management | 9,667 | +1,854 |
| 3 | talent-management | 4,396 | +946 |
| 4 | succession-planning | 4,145 | +875 |
| 5 | analytics | 3,468 | +722 |
| 6 | ai | 2,423 | +434 |
| 7 | corrective-action | 2,147 | +567 |
| 8 | process-improvement | 1,747 | +522 |
| 9 | stakeholder-management | 1,530 | +224 |
| 10 | automation | 1,286 | +305 |
| 11 | osha | 895 | +274 |
| 12 | regulatory-compliance | 874 | +151 |
| 13 | people-analytics | 725 | +166 |
| 14 | candidate-experience | 669 | +94 |
| 15 | employer-branding | 565 | +109 |
| 16 | data-analytics | 543 | +141 |
| 17 | accessibility | 540 | +159 |
| 18 | agile | 501 | +120 |
| 19 | statistics | 466 | +216 |
| 20 | cloud | 462 | +69 |
| 21 | strategic-planning | 427 | +65 |
| 22 | oracle | 415 | +102 |
| 23 | sap | 412 | +89 |
| 24 | hipaa | 399 | +163 |
| 25 | networking | 388 | +128 |
| 26 | full-cycle-recruiting | 365 | +40 |
| 27 | sharepoint | 326 | +80 |
| 28 | data-quality | 288 | +77 |
| 29 | successfactors | 277 | +55 |
| 30 | vendor-management | 247 | +27 |
| 31 | ecommerce | 245 | +8 |
| 32 | program-management | 245 | +59 |
| 33 | gdpr | 245 | +34 |
| 34 | saas | 221 | +7 |
| 35 | adp | 213 | +12 |
| 36 | powerbi | 213 | +48 |
| 37 | fintech | 206 | +10 |
| 38 | bamboohr | 205 | +35 |
| 39 | risk-assessment | 201 | +60 |
| 40 | express | 196 | +13 |