In-demand career skills

Employers hire for skills, not job titles. Browse 171 technology skills across 47 categories, drawn from real occupation data. Each skill page shows which careers use it, how many roles depend on it, and the tools people learn alongside it, so you can see what is worth your time before you commit to it.

Most in-demand right now

Microsoft Excel859 roles Microsoft Office software817 roles Microsoft Word784 roles Microsoft Outlook642 roles Microsoft PowerPoint629 roles Microsoft Access372 roles SAP software283 roles Microsoft Windows241 roles Microsoft Project201 roles Autodesk AutoCAD171 roles Microsoft SharePoint166 roles Adobe Acrobat165 roles

Browse every skill by category

Accounting software

Intuit QuickBooks84 roles SAP Concur5 roles

Analytical or scientific software

SAS119 roles The MathWorks MATLAB111 roles IBM SPSS Statistics92 roles Procore software6 roles TensorFlow5 roles

Application server software

GitHub35 roles Docker28 roles Red Hat OpenShift14 roles Kubernetes14 roles Spring Boot14 roles GitLab4 roles Atlassian Bitbucket3 roles

Business intelligence and data analysis software

Tableau73 roles Microsoft Power BI24 roles Alteryx software8 roles

Cloud-based data access and sharing software

Slack27 roles Asana5 roles

Cloud-based management software

Splunk Enterprise40 roles Amazon Web Services AWS CloudFormation19 roles IBM WebSphere MQ7 roles Oracle Cloud software4 roles

Computer aided design CAD software

Autodesk AutoCAD171 roles Dassault Systemes SolidWorks58 roles Bentley MicroStation48 roles Autodesk Revit39 roles Trimble SketchUp Pro37 roles Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D30 roles

Configuration management software

Puppet28 roles Chef21 roles IBM Terraform9 roles

Content workflow software

Atlassian JIRA53 roles

Customer relationship management CRM software

Salesforce software87 roles

Data base management system software

Teradata Database53 roles MySQL50 roles Apache Hadoop41 roles NoSQL30 roles Apache Cassandra29 roles MongoDB27 roles Elasticsearch25 roles Oracle PL/SQL24 roles Amazon DynamoDB20 roles Redis4 roles

Data base reporting software

Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services SSRS33 roles

Data base user interface and query software

Microsoft Access372 roles Structured query language SQL151 roles Microsoft SQL Server94 roles Oracle Database87 roles Amazon Web Services AWS software52 roles Yardi software32 roles Apache Hive31 roles Amazon Redshift27 roles Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud EC225 roles Transact-SQL19 roles ServiceNow18 roles IBM DB213 roles PyTorch4 roles GraphQL3 roles

Data mining software

Google Analytics40 roles Snowflake5 roles

Desktop publishing software

Adobe InDesign87 roles

Development environment software

Microsoft Visual Basic96 roles C69 roles Microsoft Azure software48 roles Microsoft Visual Studio46 roles Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications VBA45 roles Ruby33 roles Microsoft .NET Framework31 roles Eclipse IDE31 roles Microsoft PowerShell29 roles Go28 roles Apache Kafka27 roles Apache Maven21 roles Oracle Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition J2EE9 roles Oracle SQL Developer6 roles

Document management software

Microsoft SharePoint166 roles Adobe Acrobat165 roles

Electronic mail software

Microsoft Outlook642 roles

Enterprise application integration software

Extensible markup language XML87 roles Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services SSIS19 roles Jenkins CI14 roles Microsoft Power Automate4 roles

Enterprise resource planning ERP software

SAP software283 roles Oracle PeopleSoft79 roles Workday software13 roles SAP ERP5 roles

Expert system software

Ansible software29 roles

File versioning software

Git47 roles Apache Subversion SVN24 roles

Geographic information system

ESRI ArcGIS software93 roles

Graphical user interface development software

Graphics or photo imaging software

Adobe Photoshop144 roles Adobe Illustrator100 roles Adobe Creative Cloud software78 roles Canva9 roles

Internet browser software

Mozilla Firefox24 roles Apple Safari19 roles Microsoft Edge10 roles

Internet directory services software

Microsoft Active Directory14 roles

Medical software

MEDITECH software77 roles Epic Systems63 roles eClinicalWorks EHR software48 roles Henry Schein Dentrix12 roles

Metadata management software

Informatica software5 roles

Object or component oriented development software

Python132 roles C++110 roles R102 roles Oracle Java99 roles Perl66 roles C#54 roles jQuery27 roles Swift25 roles Apache Spark23 roles Scala23 roles TypeScript7 roles

Object oriented data base management software

PostgreSQL31 roles Hibernate ORM16 roles

Office suite software

Microsoft Office software817 roles Google Workspace software26 roles

Operating system software

Microsoft Windows241 roles Linux122 roles UNIX89 roles Apple macOS57 roles Shell script43 roles Bash35 roles Microsoft Windows Server27 roles Red Hat Enterprise Linux26 roles UNIX Shell25 roles Apple iOS17 roles Google Android11 roles

Presentation software

Microsoft PowerPoint629 roles

Procedure management software

Apache Airflow6 roles

Process mapping and design software

Microsoft Visio149 roles

Program testing software

Selenium22 roles JUnit20 roles

Project management software

Microsoft Project201 roles Oracle Primavera Enterprise Project Portfolio Management57 roles Atlassian Confluence34 roles Microsoft Teams30 roles Microsoft Team Foundation Server6 roles

Sales and marketing software

Marketo Marketing Automation30 roles HubSpot software18 roles

Spreadsheet software

Microsoft Excel859 roles Google Sheets8 roles

Switch or router software

Border Gateway Protocol BGP9 roles

Time accounting software

Kronos Workforce Timekeeper13 roles

Video conferencing software

Zoom51 roles Cisco Webex27 roles

Video creation and editing software

Adobe After Effects41 roles TikTok9 roles

Web page creation and editing software

Facebook135 roles WordPress21 roles

Web platform development software

JavaScript84 roles Hypertext markup language HTML78 roles Microsoft Active Server Pages ASP49 roles PHP47 roles Cascading style sheets CSS35 roles JavaScript Object Notation JSON26 roles AJAX25 roles Node.js24 roles Apache Tomcat23 roles Microsoft ASP.NET21 roles Django21 roles Google Angular19 roles Spring Framework16 roles React16 roles Bootstrap4 roles Vue.js3 roles

Word processing software

Microsoft Word784 roles Google Docs106 roles