Skills Map by Indeed

Skills Map by Indeed draws on data from millions of U.S. job postings to help job seekers and hiring managers alike navigate a complicated and evolving job market to build the careers and workforces of tomorrow.

Skills Map uses an AI-driven methodology that augments traditional keyword analysis and matching to infer what skills a job posting is actually signalling, even when skills aren’t directly mentioned. The result: clearer, more complete insights into hiring.

But the labor market is not static. As the data changes and needs evolve, so will Skills Map. This is a resource worth bookmarking.

Dive into Skills Map using the tool below to explore the most common skills required for roles across a range of industries, identify what employers are actually asking for, and discover the sometimes surprising areas where skills overlap and may open new opportunities.

There are thousands of distinct jobs, with thousands of distinct responsibilities and tasks. But because these responsibilities and tasks all require some mix of skills to complete, their DNA is often more similar than most would expect. Business Operations skills appear in nearly three-quarters of all job postings, for example, from project managers to pediatricians to plumbers.

But skill demand shifts considerably depending on location. Click on any state to see its most in-demand skills, or click on any skill category to see where those skills are most in-demand.

Human skills are the foundation everything else is built on. In-demand, industry-specific skills like technology or healthcare get all the attention, but the ones that have always powered work — coordination, communication, the ability to navigate a business — aren’t going away. In fact, when niche and general skills are bundled together, they can create opportunities workers might never have considered.

Skills Map can’t tell you what pathway to choose. What it can do, though, is show you what’s in demand, where, and across which industries. Equipped with that intelligence, you can make informed decisions about where to invest your energy, whether you’re actively searching, looking to level up or considering a whole new occupation.

But that data still needs context. Career Guide’s editorial team translates Skills Map data into actionable insights for workers, giving them the tools to help inform professional experiences.

Hiring is facing new challenges, and the talent landscape is shifting in ways that aren’t always clear. Seeing what skills are being prioritized across industries and regions can help you plan for the role you’re filling today — and for the workforce you’ll need tomorrow. Skills Map can help you benchmark your job descriptions against the broader market, identify the secondary skills that complement core requirements and spot where your hiring strategy may need to evolve. And Indeed Insights is your source for the market-based, practical guidance to drive those decisions.

Skills Map is built on research from Indeed Hiring Lab, an international team of economists and data scientists using the unique and near-real-time data from the world’s largest hiring platform to identify and quantify the dynamics shaping the world of work. Explore Hiring Lab’s expert economist insights for a deeper dive into the skills data, as well as intelligence on the broader labor market.

Skills Map by Indeed draws on more than 3,000 skills across 48 categories and 108 subcategories, extracted from US job postings using a model built on Indeed’s own taxonomy and classification systems. Indeed’s skills taxonomy evolves continuously as new skills emerge and extraction methods improve — meaning the data gets more precise over time.

Job posting volumes are provided for informational purposes only and are not indicators of Indeed or Recruit Holdings performance.