What skills are most in demand for sales roles?

Salesforce, HubSpot, SaaS sales experience, pipeline management, and consultative selling are consistently among the most mentioned skills in ANZ sales job listings. Enterprise roles also frequently require experience with complex deal cycles and multi-stakeholder selling.

How is skills demand measured?

Skills are extracted from active GTM job descriptions using natural language processing. Each skill is counted by how many active listings mention it, and ranked by total mention count and percentage of roles. Data refreshes daily.

What technical skills do GTM roles require?

CRM platforms (Salesforce, HubSpot) are the most common technical requirement across all GTM functions. Marketing roles frequently require marketing automation tools (Marketo, Pardot), while RevOps roles require data analytics, SQL, and BI tools. Sales engineering roles demand product and API knowledge.

Skills Demand

What ANZ employers are looking for

Skills extracted from job descriptions across all active GTM roles.

Top 30 skills across all functions

SkillMentions% of Roles

Communication9.3k56.9%

Customer Service5.5k33.8%

Teamwork5.2k32.0%

Sales4.9k30.1%

Customer service4.4k26.9%

Adaptability2k12.3%

Product knowledge1.7k10.3%

Merchandising1.6k9.9%

Communication1.6k35.2%

Time Management1.6k9.5%

Negotiation1.5k34.0%

Product Knowledge1.5k9.3%

Visual Merchandising1.5k9.1%

Time management1.4k8.5%

Retail operations1.4k8.3%

Business Development1.3k27.9%

Team Leadership1.3k7.7%

Relationship Building1.2k7.7%

Relationship building1.2k7.6%

Visual merchandising1.2k7.4%

Problem solving1.2k7.1%

Attention To Detail1.1k7.0%

Stock management1.1k6.8%

Stakeholder Management1k6.2%

Sales1k22.1%

Organization9876.1%

Reliability9445.8%

Problem Solving9245.7%

Leadership8685.3%

Coaching8635.3%

What ANZ employers are looking for

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