Most In-Demand Sales Skills
The most in-demand skills for Sales roles right now are ai, cloud, account-executive — ranked across 3499 open postings.
Updated November 5, 2026
| # | Skill | Open postings | 30-day growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ai | 493 | +493 |
| 2 | cloud | 249 | +249 |
| 3 | account-executive | 242 | +242 |
| 4 | networking | 234 | +234 |
| 5 | saas | 223 | +223 |
| 6 | observability | 160 | +160 |
| 7 | accessibility | 159 | +159 |
| 8 | datadog | 158 | +158 |
| 9 | dns | 153 | +153 |
| 10 | cloudflare | 153 | +153 |
| 11 | business-development | 117 | +117 |
| 12 | salesforce | 112 | +112 |
| 13 | go-to-market | 98 | +98 |
| 14 | anthropic | 84 | +84 |
| 15 | pipeline-management | 81 | +81 |
| 16 | tableau | 74 | +74 |
| 17 | devsecops | 69 | +69 |
| 18 | gitlab | 61 | +61 |
| 19 | crm | 49 | +49 |
| 20 | figma | 41 | +41 |
| 21 | devops | 41 | +41 |
| 22 | business-intelligence | 36 | +36 |
| 23 | cloud-security | 35 | +35 |
| 24 | api | 35 | +35 |
| 25 | aws | 27 | +27 |
| 26 | sales-engineering | 27 | +27 |
| 27 | pre-sales | 27 | +27 |
| 28 | llm | 27 | +27 |
| 29 | gcp | 26 | +26 |
| 30 | cybersecurity | 26 | +26 |
| 31 | linkedin-sales-navigator | 26 | +26 |
| 32 | git | 25 | +25 |
| 33 | machine-learning | 23 | +23 |
| 34 | kubernetes | 17 | +17 |
| 35 | automation | 16 | +16 |
| 36 | lead-generation | 16 | +16 |
| 37 | azure | 16 | +16 |
| 38 | sre | 15 | +15 |
| 39 | root-cause-analysis | 14 | +14 |
| 40 | sales-enablement | 14 | +14 |