What Lead HR Jobs Ask For
Across 299 open Lead HR postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are confined-space, employee-relations, ai.
Updated October 28, 2026
337 open Lead HR postings. The percentages below are measured over the 299 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| confined-space | 39% |
| employee-relations | 30% |
| ai | 23% |
| performance-management | 19% |
| stakeholder-management | 17% |
| hris | 16% |
| automation | 11% |
| analytics | 10% |
| succession-planning | 8% |
| candidate-experience | 8% |
| machine-learning | 8% |
| zoom | 7% |
| demand-generation | 7% |
| talent-management | 7% |
| people-analytics | 5% |
| safety-audit | 5% |
| cloud | 3% |
| corrective-action | 3% |
| process-improvement | 3% |
| gdpr | 3% |
| backbone | 2% |
| agentic-ai | 2% |
| data-quality | 2% |
| fintech | 2% |
| program-management | 2% |
| risk-assessment | 2% |
| sap | 2% |
| six-sigma | 2% |
"Mentioned in" counts postings that name the skill anywhere — including as a nice-to-have — so treat it as the ceiling, not the bar.
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Across all HR levels
Most HR postings never state a level. This wider list covers them too.
- employee-relations 5,252
- performance-management 3,929
- hris 2,429
- talent-management 1,842
- succession-planning 1,676
- analytics 1,599
- ai 1,555
- corrective-action 850
- process-improvement 762
- automation 716
- stakeholder-management 606
- accessibility 385