Manufacturing & Supply Chain Skills in Demand

These roles plan, make and move physical goods. Postings focus on process improvement, quality and the planning systems a plant or supply network runs on, and few of them can be done remotely.

We analyzed 117 U.S. job descriptions from 21 employers for Manufacturing & Supply Chain roles. The most requested skills were GMP (45%), Supply chain (22%) and Project management (19%).

1,594open U.S. roles tracked
3 yearstypical experience asked for

Clinical

  • GMP45%
  • FDA regulations17%

Operations

  • Supply chain22%
  • Root cause analysis16%
  • Six Sigma12%
  • Quality systems8%
  • ERP systems7%
  • Lean7%

Product & design

  • Project management19%

Business tools

  • SAP13%
  • Excel13%
  • PowerPoint6%

Finance & legal

  • Regulatory compliance10%

Data

  • Statistics6%

Updated November 7, 2026, using job descriptions collected since September 25, 2026. Shares show how many of the sampled descriptions mention a skill, so a low share can still be a firm requirement in the roles that list it. We sample a limited number of descriptions per employer so that no single company dominates, and we only report figures backed by several employers. Advertised pay comes from a different group of roles than H1B filings, so the two are not directly comparable.

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