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  <title>The most demanded skills across 500,000 open job postings. Patient Care leads with 67,280 postings, ahead of Python at 45,107. Healthcare skills take three of the top five, and Forklift Certification appears in more postings than Kubernetes.</title>
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  <text x="30" y="564" font-size="14" fill="#8c8481">Boilerplate terms excluded: a skill must be at least 35% concentrated in one field. See the method note.</text>
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