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 71 U.S. job descriptions from 20 employers for Manufacturing & Supply Chain roles. The most requested skills were GMP (39%), Supply chain (27%) and FDA regulations (20%).

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

Clinical

  • GMP39%
  • FDA regulations20%

Operations

  • Supply chain27%
  • Root cause analysis17%
  • Six Sigma10%

Product & design

  • Project management13%

Finance & legal

  • Regulatory compliance11%

Business tools

  • Excel11%
  • SAP11%

Updated November 7, 2026, using job descriptions collected since October 8, 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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