Most In-Demand Resume Keywords This Month
Last rebuilt October 22, 2026 · 257 live postings scanned
Pulled directly from live postings on Adzuna, Remotive, RemoteOK, Arbeitnow, and Jobicy, the same five boards our job matcher searches, across a broad sample of categories (software, marketing, customer service, data, project management, sales, accounting, and general remote roles). Every listing is scanned once for a curated list of skill and tool terms, then this page is thrown away and rebuilt from scratch on the next refresh, nothing here is hand-written or left over from a previous month.
| Keyword | Share of postings | |
|---|---|---|
| API | 13.6% | |
| Cloud | 10.1% | |
| Leadership | 8.6% | |
| Stakeholder management | 7.4% | |
| Excel | 6.6% | |
| Cross-functional collaboration | 5.1% | |
| Python | 3.5% | |
| Agile | 3.5% | |
| AWS | 2.3% | |
| Customer service | 2.3% | |
| Machine learning | 2.3% | |
| DevOps | 2.3% | |
| Remote work | 2.3% | |
| Attention to detail | 1.6% | |
| SQL | 1.6% | |
| React | 1.6% | |
| Project management | 1.6% | |
| SEO | 1.6% | |
| Data analysis | 1.6% | |
| Communication skills | 1.2% |
A real caveat, not a footnote: these five boards skew toward remote and tech-adjacent roles by nature, this is a genuine snapshot of what those postings ask for, not a claim about every job in every industry. Treat it as a directional read on what to check your own resume against, not a checklist to stuff every term from.
Want to see how your own resume stacks up against a specific posting, not just this general sample? The free resume keyword checker compares your resume directly against one real job description. For the fuller guide to choosing and placing keywords, see our resume keywords guide. For a dated, point-in-time analysis of an earlier scan rather than this always-current list, see 342 real job postings: what they actually ask for.