Skills, Credentials & Education Employers Ask For — August 2026
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Job postings<br>1,755,610<br>across all roles
Requirements found<br>1,834<br>skills, credentials, and education
Employer requests<br>8,523,912<br>one posting can name several requirements
Skills across careers<br>See the job-specific skills that stand out in different kinds of work.
Legal Counsel Legal Research · Corporate Governance · Commercial ContractsExplore →Accounting & Finance GAAP · General Ledger · Month-End CloseExplore →Cybersecurity Engineering SIEM · NIST · Incident ResponseExplore →Retail Sales Associate Cash Register · Merchandising · POSExplore →Machine Learning & AI PyTorch · LLMs · MLOpsExplore →Civil Engineering Civil 3D · stormwater · HEC-RASExplore →Digital Marketing Google Ads · SEO · Google AnalyticsExplore →Human Resources HRIS · Employee Relations · Employment LawExplore →
People skills<br>Communication, teamwork, leadership, and ways of working
1Communication Skills25.1%2Service Orientation13.1%3Cooperation10.9%4Attention to Detail10.5%5Leadership Orientation10.5%6Complex Problem Solving10.1%7Written Communication5.70%8Verbal Communication5.68%9Dependability4.29%10Initiative3.55%11Time Management3.32%12Judgment and Decision Making2.94%
What sets this role apart<br>Skills that appear more often in this role than in related job postings
Microsoft Teams<br>Tools & platformsRequiredPreferredOther wording<br>Employers ask for Microsoft Teams in 185,557 job postings across all career areas (10.6%). Choose a career area to see whether it is especially common there.
Skills often found with it across the full study
Cooperation 299,352 postings across the full studyLeadership Orientation 239,856 postings across the full studyInnovation 167,797 postings across the full studyCommunication Skills 202,269 postings across the full studyReporting 141,979 postings across the full study
Roles where credentials matter<br>Examples of occupations where certifications or licenses appear frequently in job postings.
From job postings
Why examples: credential requirements vary sharply by occupation, so a single ranking across unrelated roles can be misleading.
Credential-heavy role examples<br>Compare nursing, medical imaging, and cybersecurity.
Registered Nurse RN license · BLS · ACLSExplore →Medical Imaging ARRT · BLS · ARDMSExplore →Cybersecurity Engineering CISSP · ISO 27001 · Security+Explore →
Credentials employers ask for<br>Certifications and licenses required or preferred in this role’s job postings.
How education requirements differ by role<br>Compare roles where employers emphasize a high school diploma or GED, a bachelor’s degree, or doctoral study.
Degrees & diplomas
What the bars show: the share of each role’s job postings that require or prefer that education level.
Education requirement examples<br>Retail, research, finance, and engineering show how sharply expectations can differ.
Education employers ask for<br>Education levels required or preferred in this role’s job postings.
Quick answers<br>A plain-language summary of what the job-posting data shows
What can I learn about a role?<br>See the skills, tools, and education requirements employers mention most often for that role, plus which requirements are unusually common compared with related work.
Which people skills do employers ask for most?<br>The people skills employers ask for most often are Communication Skills, Service Orientation, Cooperation, Attention to Detail, Leadership Orientation, and Complex Problem Solving. Choose a role above to see which ones are especially common for that work.
What information does this explorer include?<br>We found at least one known skill or qualification in 95.8% of the job postings checked. The explorer includes people skills, job-specific skills, software, professional knowledge, credentials, education, and languages.
Can I compare skills by country?<br>Yes. Choose a country above, then combine it with an individual role. The current report has publishable country samples for 104 countries, led by United States, India, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, and Australia.
Where these numbers come from<br>How we turn public job postings into the results on this page
1 · Start with trusted skill lists We use the public O*NET 30.3 database and Corvi Careers' reviewed skill definitions. O*NET content is available under CC BY 4.0.
2 · Analyze job postings We analyze collected job postings before publishing this report. A skill counts once per posting when its name or a reviewed variation appears. Country results use the posting’s resolved locations; remote or...