Most In-Demand Retail Skills
The most in-demand skills for Retail roles right now are performance-management, corrective-action, react — ranked across 2362 open postings.
Updated November 1, 2026
| # | Skill | Open postings | 30-day growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | performance-management | 909 | +909 |
| 2 | corrective-action | 596 | +596 |
| 3 | react | 163 | +163 |
| 4 | employee-relations | 92 | +92 |
| 5 | succession-planning | 86 | +86 |
| 6 | ecommerce | 54 | +54 |
| 7 | confined-space | 37 | +37 |
| 8 | elk | 34 | +34 |
| 9 | erp | 33 | +33 |
| 10 | accessibility | 31 | +31 |
| 11 | ai | 31 | +31 |
| 12 | gdpr | 23 | +23 |
| 13 | vite | 23 | +23 |
| 14 | analytics | 21 | +21 |
| 15 | strategic-planning | 20 | +20 |
| 16 | express | 20 | +20 |
| 17 | networking | 19 | +19 |
| 18 | statistics | 17 | +17 |
| 19 | agile | 17 | +17 |
| 20 | anthropic | 14 | +14 |
| 21 | customer-retention | 11 | +11 |
| 22 | tdd | 9 | +9 |
| 23 | assembly | 9 | +9 |
| 24 | tableau | 7 | +7 |
| 25 | accounts-receivable | 7 | +7 |
| 26 | powerbi | 7 | +7 |
| 27 | salesforce | 6 | +6 |
| 28 | illustrator | 6 | +6 |
| 29 | stakeholder-management | 6 | +6 |
| 30 | candidate-experience | 6 | +6 |
| 31 | shopify | 5 | +5 |
| 32 | financial-reporting | 5 | +5 |
| 33 | crm | 5 | +5 |
| 34 | vue | 5 | +5 |
| 35 | helm | 5 | +5 |
| 36 | vendor-management | 5 | +5 |
| 37 | osha | 5 | +5 |
| 38 | automation | 5 | +5 |
| 39 | cnc | 4 | +4 |
| 40 | data-analytics | 4 | +4 |