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Skill Demand Data

Skill Demand Data

Track hiring skills across technology, healthcare, retail, and transportation postings using JobDataPool's canonical job listings feed.

Skills are extracted from rows with populated skill metadata and grouped by industry context. Use this page for skill demand research, hiring trend analysis, and AI or search products that need open labor market analytics.

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Top Skills by Industry

Observed skills in active job listings

Counts are from the June 2026 JobDataPool metrics snapshot. They are directional because not every listing includes a normalized skills field.

Technology

  1. Communication 980
  2. High School Diploma 604
  3. Management 564
  4. Customer Service 504
  5. Leadership 412
  6. Sales 362
  7. Excel 352
  8. Valid Driver 337
  9. Bachelor's Degree 276
  10. AWS 274

Healthcare

  1. Communication 211
  2. Sales 63
  3. Valid Driver 44
  4. Marketing 42
  5. CPR 37
  6. Excel 33
  7. Management 28
  8. High School Diploma 27
  9. Agile 27
  10. Information Technology 26

Retail

  1. Communication 53
  2. Go 31
  3. Mentoring 9
  4. Sales 7
  5. Salesforce 6
  6. MVR 5
  7. Drug test 5
  8. Marketing 5
  9. Dental 4
  10. Cloud 4

Transportation

  1. High School Diploma 43
  2. Valid Driver 39
  3. Communication 22
  4. CPR 18
  5. Bachelor's Degree 18
  6. Driver's License 16
  7. First Aid 15
  8. Management 13
  9. Leadership 9
  10. Associate's Degree 6

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Use skills with broader job market context

Skill demand becomes more useful when paired with active jobs, company coverage, salary data, remote job data, and industry rollups from the same source feed.