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 139 U.S. job descriptions from 19 employers for Manufacturing & Supply Chain roles. The most requested skills were Excel (16%), SAP (15%) and Supply chain (14%).

5,762open U.S. roles tracked
3 yearstypical experience asked for

Business tools

  • Excel16%
  • SAP15%
  • PowerPoint7%

Operations

  • Supply chain14%
  • Lean13%
  • Root cause analysis12%
  • ERP systems10%
  • Six Sigma8%
  • OSHA5%

Product & design

  • Project management10%
  • Agile4%

Hardware

  • CAD6%
  • Electrical systems6%

Data

  • Statistics6%

Languages

  • SQL5%
  • Python4%

Updated November 7, 2026, using job descriptions collected since September 26, 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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