What Employers in Spain Actually Ask For, Skill by Skill

Job ads tell you more than a job title ever will. Looking at what actually appears in the postings, skill by skill, shows a clearer picture of what employers in Spain want than any generic checklist. Here is what turns up most often across postings on NewLuxJob for a range of roles.

Finance and Accounting Skills

Among 323 Accountant Auditor postings in Spain, Auditing appears in 48%, Tax in 41%, Reporting in 37%, Excel in 31%, SAP in 16% and IFRS in 7%. For Finance roles, based on 118 postings, Excel leads at 48%, followed by Forecasting at 36%, SAP at 33%, Budgeting at 24%, Power BI at 21% and IFRS at 15%. Excel and SAP repeat across both roles, while IFRS knowledge, though less common, still appears in a meaningful share of listings.

Tech and Data Skills

Software Developer postings (499 in total) most often mention Java at 36%, Python at 31%, Agile/Scrum at 29%, CI/CD at 28%, Git at 28% and AWS at 23%. For Data Analyst roles, from 379 postings, SQL tops the list at 50%, Python at 47%, Excel at 25%, Power BI at 21%, Machine Learning at 21% and Statistics at 20%. Engineer postings, based on 255 listings, look different: Project Management appears in 20%, SAP in 16%, MATLAB in 16%, AutoCAD in 13%, Lean in 13% and CATIA in 13%. Programming languages dominate developer and analyst ads, while engineering roles lean more on project and design tools.

Sales, Marketing and Customer Support Skills

Sales postings (358 total) mention CRM in 49% of listings, Pipeline in 42%, B2B in 29%, Salesforce in 25%, Negotiation in 23% and Account Management in 13%. Marketing roles, from 74 postings, most often list Content at 57%, CRM at 42%, Social Media at 28%, Copywriting at 18%, SEO at 16% and Adobe at 16%. Customer Support postings, based on 422 listings, ask for Communication in 53%, CRM in 40%, Troubleshooting in 38%, English in 25%, Live Chat in 16% and German in 11%. CRM shows up across all three of these customer-facing roles.

Management, Consulting and Legal Skills

Manager postings, the largest group at 719, most frequently mention Stakeholder Management at 57%, Strategy at 53%, Leadership at 37%, Project Management at 28%, Budgeting at 20% and Coaching at 14%. Consultant roles, from 113 postings, list Strategy at 61%, Stakeholder Management at 46%, SAP at 36%, Excel at 19%, Agile at 19% and Project Management at 11%. Legal postings, based on 49 listings, are dominated by Contract Law at 76%, Compliance at 47%, Negotiation at 45%, Regulatory at 33%, Drafting at 31% and Litigation at 24%. Stakeholder Management and Strategy carry across both Manager and Consultant listings.

Logistics Skills

Driver Logistics postings, from 199 listings, most commonly ask for a Class C/CE license, appearing in 56% of ads, followed by Logistics at 26%, ADR/Dangerous Goods at 16%, Delivery at 11%, SAP at 8% and Warehouse at 5%. The licence requirement stands well ahead of every other skill in this category.

Across all of these roles, a handful of tools keep reappearing: Excel, SAP and CRM systems show up in postings for finance, engineering, consulting and sales alike. For anyone updating a CV for the Spanish market, matching the specific skills listed for a target role, rather than a generic list, is the more direct approach based on what employers are actually posting.