Skills employers ask for in Houston-tagged postings — a demand-side proxy for the local skill market.
Employers chiefly want practical office fluency: Excel appears in 715 job ads, Word in 367 and project management in 115. CRM, SAP and Salesforce add a business-systems layer, but everyday productivity software remains the common denominator.
| Skill | Postings |
|---|---|
| Excel | 715 |
| Word | 367 |
| Microsoft Office | 359 |
| Powerpoint | 285 |
| Outlook | 262 |
| Microsoft Office Suite | 149 |
| Crm | 130 |
| Project Management | 115 |
| Sap | 113 |
| Salesforce | 105 |
| Sql | 95 |
| Python | 91 |
| Erp | 83 |
| Power Bi | 82 |
| Microsoft Excel | 79 |
| Inventory Management | 74 |
| Ms Office | 74 |
| Data Analysis | 62 |
| Hvac | 61 |
| Financial Modeling | 59 |
| Oracle | 55 |
| Microsoft Word | 54 |
| Budgeting | 54 |
| Accounting | 53 |
| Reporting | 52 |
| Autocad | 51 |
| Aws | 49 |
| Electrical | 49 |
| Data Entry | 49 |
| Forecasting | 47 |
| Ai | 47 |
| Hand Tools | 45 |
| Plumbing | 44 |
| Procurement | 41 |
| Driver's License | 40 |
| Agile | 40 |
| Crm Systems | 40 |
| Cpr | 39 |
| Electrical Engineering | 39 |
| Forklift | 37 |
| Azure | 37 |
| Procore | 37 |
| Workday | 36 |
| 36 | |
| Automation | 36 |
| Erp Systems | 36 |
| Gaap | 35 |
| Teams | 35 |
| Sharepoint | 35 |
| Tableau | 34 |
| P25 | Median | P75 | N |
|---|---|---|---|
| $41,600 | $70,420 | $104,000 | 3106 |
small sample — indicative only
demand-side signal (what employers ask for), not a resident skill census
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