Most In-Demand Legal Skills
The most in-demand skills for Legal roles right now are legal-research, regulatory-compliance, ai — ranked across 36796 open postings.
Updated October 17, 2026
| # | Skill | Open postings | 30-day growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | legal-research | 4,635 | +1,364 |
| 2 | regulatory-compliance | 3,920 | +887 |
| 3 | ai | 3,092 | +538 |
| 4 | risk-assessment | 2,870 | +643 |
| 5 | stakeholder-management | 1,822 | +422 |
| 6 | business-development | 1,706 | +491 |
| 7 | corrective-action | 1,460 | +389 |
| 8 | gdpr | 1,070 | +131 |
| 9 | process-improvement | 989 | +211 |
| 10 | automation | 974 | +161 |
| 11 | cybersecurity | 908 | +132 |
| 12 | cloud | 881 | +129 |
| 13 | saas | 807 | +57 |
| 14 | analytics | 739 | +153 |
| 15 | contract-drafting | 733 | +175 |
| 16 | fintech | 731 | +75 |
| 17 | contract-negotiation | 711 | +142 |
| 18 | program-management | 548 | +108 |
| 19 | contract-lifecycle-management | 542 | +104 |
| 20 | performance-management | 535 | +105 |
| 21 | hipaa | 518 | +104 |
| 22 | accessibility | 502 | +74 |
| 23 | ccpa | 473 | +4 |
| 24 | dfars | 427 | +87 |
| 25 | agile | 426 | +88 |
| 26 | sharepoint | 383 | +83 |
| 27 | erp | 351 | +49 |
| 28 | data-governance | 351 | +51 |
| 29 | sap | 350 | +87 |
| 30 | itar | 348 | +69 |
| 31 | employee-relations | 341 | +67 |
| 32 | llm | 336 | +42 |
| 33 | iso-27001 | 322 | +44 |
| 34 | machine-learning | 321 | +28 |
| 35 | data-analytics | 310 | +55 |
| 36 | root-cause-analysis | 285 | +79 |
| 37 | ecommerce | 283 | +23 |
| 38 | uscis | 268 | +40 |
| 39 | iso-13485 | 264 | +44 |
| 40 | nist | 264 | +22 |