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Fastest-growing skills in our listings

Change in active listings that require each skill, week of 2026-10-05 vs week of 2026-11-02 (4 weeks). 117 skills had at least 30 listings in both weeks; the median skill changed +30%.

  1. negotiation60 → 588 (+880%, +850 pts vs market)
  2. excel47 → 422 (+797.9%, +767.9 pts vs market)
  3. marketing102 → 812 (+696.1%, +666.1 pts vs market)
  4. social media33 → 225 (+581.8%, +551.8 pts vs market)
  5. reporting52 → 316 (+507.7%, +477.7 pts vs market)
  6. sales453 → 2322 (+412.6%, +382.6 pts vs market)
  7. attention to detail41 → 199 (+385.4%, +355.4 pts vs market)
  8. digital marketing47 → 206 (+338.3%, +308.3 pts vs market)
  9. english75 → 318 (+324%, +294 pts vs market)
  10. customer support276 → 1131 (+309.8%, +279.8 pts vs market)

Method: counts of active listings in our corpus whose required-skills field names the skill (spelling variants merged), from weekly snapshots. It measures what employers ask for in our listings, not the whole labour market, and not a forecast.

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A weekly read of the remote job market from our own listings data — every issue.