“skills”
Appeared in 72% of designer job listings the week of 2026-11-02 (62 of 86 postings).
First tracked 2026-04-13 · 21 weeks of collected data · peak prevalence 79% · no data collected Jul 27 – Sep 27
“skills” prevalence in designer JDs, by week
2026-04-13 → 2026-11-02% of each week's designer postings that mention this term · 21 collected weeks · peak 79% · 40 earlier weeks from before collection began not shown · hatched rows: no data collected, not 0%
Where the conversation happens
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| Role | Total mentions |
|---|---|
| Senior Product Designer | 2110 |
| Design Engineer | 993 |
| Product Designer | 757 |
| Staff Product Designer | 734 |
| UX Designer | 416 |
| Design Lead | 299 |
| Principal Product Designer | 239 |
| Content Designer | 152 |
| AI Product Designer | 137 |
| Design Systems Engineer | 127 |
| UX Researcher | 125 |
| UX Writer | 71 |
| Growth Designer | 66 |
| Product Design Manager | 50 |
| Associate Product Designer | 33 |
| Design Director | 25 |
| Junior Product Designer | 24 |
| Brand Designer | 22 |
| Head of Design | 9 |
| Design Generalist | 4 |
Roles where “skills” appears most
Ranked by share of the role's active listings that include this term. Roles with fewer than 20 active listings are left out.
- Product Design Manager93% · 41 of 44 listings · 75 mentions
- Associate Product Designer89% · 31 of 35 listings · 60 mentions
- Principal Product Designer77% · 147 of 192 listings · 252 mentions
- Design Systems Engineer76% · 70 of 92 listings · 132 mentions
- Content Designer74% · 79 of 107 listings · 178 mentions
- UX Researcher74% · 153 of 208 listings · 225 mentions
- UX Writer72% · 47 of 65 listings · 78 mentions
- Senior Product Designer72% · 1,189 of 1,657 listings · 2,248 mentions
- Design Engineer70% · 513 of 731 listings · 1,039 mentions
- Staff Product Designer69% · 473 of 687 listings · 842 mentions
About this tracker
Every active designer listing in our corpus is tokenized: HTML stripped, stopwords (common English words + job-posting boilerplate) removed, pure numbers dropped. The remaining tokens are bucketed into Monday-anchored weeks based on when each listing was first seen. Counts are weekly totals across every listing for that week. A week only counts as collected if our LinkedIn scrape (about 80% of volume) ran that week; weeks when it didn't are shown hatched as gaps, never as zeros.